February 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Disable one service on all machines
by schritte＠hebis.uni-frankfurt.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi Michael, that is possible, of course, I was just curious if there is a build-in solution. And it is, even within the web interface, Malcolm showed me (thanks) Rolf > Write a script that reads bb-hosts to generate a list of hostnames, > and loop through them calling your disable > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Rolf Schrittenlocher > <schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to disable one service on all machines temporarily. For > one machine I use > ./bb $BBDISP "disable `hostname`.<service> some text like 12h > night an weekend no test" > Of course I can do this for every host but I wonder if there is a > one-liner for disabling the service on all machines. I read in an > older posting that the web-interface hobbit-enadis.sh should show > "ALL" as an option both for hosts and tests, but in our case > (xymon 4.3.0) it doesn't show an option "ALL" in the field > "hosts" but only in "tests", > > thanks for hints > > Rolf > > -- > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > Rolf Schrittenlocher > > HeBIS-IT, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt > Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 28817 > LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de> > Persoenlich: schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de> > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com <mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Rolf Schrittenlocher HeBIS-IT, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 28817 LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de Persoenlich: schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de

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Blog entry about Big Brother
by sean＠maclawran.ca 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Guys: I'm no longer with Quest, and for those who don't know me, I'm the guy that wrote the original Big Brother. If you were an old brother, you can see what happened in the blog entry here: http://blog.maclawran.ca/what-next And a great big thanks to Henrik for keeping the community going. Ironic - I may end up having to use *your* software :) Take care guys! -- Sean MacGuire sean at maclawran.ca Key West +1 305 390 0888 The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

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network hiccups causing false positives to be sent
by tsztur＠gmail.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

So our crappy server host (1and1) seems to be getting random network spikes causing false alert emails to be sent out with Critical notifications. I understand I can set alerts.cfg to only alert after a certain duration of red but we need notifications to be sent right away in case of production downtime. Is there an option where I can have XYMON ping a certain host, and if that host is unreachable to ignore any other alerts? eg. I can run a ping on yahoo.com and example.com , if either of those as any connection issues, to ignore all other alerts for the time being? tia.

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Frequency of monitoring
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

On Wed, February 8, 2012 8:41 am, Sridhar.Adapalli at hhsc.state.tx.us wrote: > Hi > I am running Hobbit 4.2. I am trying to configure the frequency at which > the data is collected for entities such as cpu, memory, ping, etc. Can > someone let me know how to do this? > > Thanks > -- Sridhar > cpu/memory/disk/procs tests are generated by the server (almost) immediately after each "client" report from the clients; that frequency is controlled by the client itself. Look for an "INTERVAL" line in the [client] stanza in one of the ./etc/ files and adjust according. Ping tests, other network tests, and other checks are fired off by the server. I believe that was the etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg file in 4.2, but I might be mistaken. HTH, -jc

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Frequency of monitoring
by Sridhar.Adapalli＠hhsc.state.tx.us 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi I am running Hobbit 4.2. I am trying to configure the frequency at which the data is collected for entities such as cpu, memory, ping, etc. Can someone let me know how to do this? Thanks -- Sridhar

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group-sorted, group-except
by lebarber＠gmail.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Is there any way to combine the functionality of the group-sorted and group-except tags. I'm trying to create an alternate page set and would really like to be able sort a group and eliminate some extraneous tests that aren't necessary for this view, but it seems that the group directives are either one or the other. Thanks, Larry Barber

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bb-eventlog with plain text output
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Can I run something like bb-eventlog to get the history of a node, but get the output in plain text form? I'm looking for something that is easier to include in a jira, help desk ticket, etcetera.

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Disable one service on all machines
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rolf Schrittenlocher > Sent: 02/08/12 08:39 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] Disable one service on all machines > > Hi, > > I'd like to disable one service on all machines temporarily. For one > machine I use > ./bb $BBDISP "disable `hostname`.<service> some text like 12h night an > weekend no test" > Of course I can do this for every host but I wonder if there is a > one-liner for disabling the service on all machines. I read in an older > posting that the web-interface hobbit-enadis.sh should show "ALL" as an > option both for hosts and tests, but in our case (xymon 4.3.0) it > doesn't show an option "ALL" in the field "hosts" but only in "tests", Highlight all then select the service you want to disable in the right-hand column. Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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xymon compiling issues on Mac OSX 10.6 (darwin)
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Henrik, I was having problems compiling xymon on OSX 10.6 until I ran across this old post on xymon developer list. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26609049 The 2 patches for Makefile proposed by the original poster fixed the compile issues and I implemented the 3rd patch as well. Have you given any thought to merging these changes back into the trunk? Thanks,

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Stop all alerts for maintainance
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

hi, we have xymon 4.2.2. We want to stop all alerts at a time for some maintainance. How that can be done in one go? -akshar

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