March 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Patch - fix for zoom icon when no graph
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hello, I mentioned before about how some status pages show no graph but do show the small magnifying glass zoom icon (http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2012-March/034158.html ) I have looked at the code about this, and I can see it is not a simple task to prevent the icon from appearing when their is no graph. Unfortunately the graph is handled in one part of the code, and the icon is just a simple bit of HTML to show the icon image. The two are not related in any way, so it is not possible to just say "if there's no RRD file then don't show the icon". However, there is one place in the code where the URL containing the graph and icon is passed through deeper into the code. By changing the URL at this point neither the graph nor icon will appear when required. To do this I have created two variables in xymonserver.cfg that the user can adjust as required. One variable specifies the test names that use the TRACK option (so 'files', 'procs' and 'ports'). The second variable is empty by default, but can contain a <hostname.<test> pair such as 'server1.procs'. The code will check if such a pair has been set for the host/test being checked, and if so then the graph will be shown. So by default no graphs are shown for the 'files', 'procs' and 'ports' tests until the user uses a TRACK option, and modifies the new settings. Some 'wildcarding' is possible. To return to the previous behaviour of all graphs being shown, just set the TRACKEDTESTS option to "". To show the (for example) 'procs' graphs for all hosts, just remove 'procs' from the TRACKEDTESTS option. To show all the graphs for a particular host use something like 'server1.*' (where 'server1' is the hostname). I'm not entirely happy with this fix, but it does seem to work. If there are a lot of hosts then the variables could get large in size. There is no accurate check of the host/test pair, in that they are not specifically delimited. (I was thinking of a space-separated list but ensuring that the list starts and ends with a space is awkward.) So, for example, the pair 'abc.procs' would match 'server-abc.procs'. The code uses trees for some of its structures, and I took a very quick look to see if maybe something could be included in there when a TRACKed option was used. That would probably be better. Attached are the patches, use them if you wish. Only 2 files provide the code (which admittedly is only a small change), the rest are documentation (the man pages and html pages, installed analysis.cfg etc). The patches were produced against the 4.3.7 code. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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COMPACT not working
by Chris.Morris＠rwe.com 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

In fact, scrap that - it breaks more than that, but xymongen does not crash. It breaks WML generation, page/subpage background colours, the nongreen page and the first column specified in the list to compact disappears and the others go green even if they were yellow or red before. Errk! -----Original Message----- From: Morris, Chris (SS-IS) Sent: 28 March 2012 15:23 To: F.Reenders at utwente.nl; malcolm.hunter at gmx.com; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] COMPACT not working Will just give a green icon if conn and info are green - no status page. However, on further testing is seems to break the page/subpage colours and the nongreen page. -----Original Message----- From: F.Reenders at utwente.nl [mailto:F.Reenders at utwente.nl] Sent: 28 March 2012 15:03 To: Morris, Chris (SS-IS); malcolm.hunter at gmx.com; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] COMPACT not working Do you have an example? -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris.Morris at rwe.com Sent: woensdag 28 maart 2012 15:53 To: malcolm.hunter at gmx.com; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] COMPACT not working Works ok for me using xymon 4.3.7 on AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Hunter Sent: 28 March 2012 14:19 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] COMPACT not working Hi, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: F.Reenders at utwente.nl > Sent: 03/28/12 01:00 PM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] COMPACT not working > > Hi, > > When I use COMPACT in the hosts.cfg file the xymongen program crashes. > > Message when I click the xymongen icon after my xymon server: > > - Program crashed > > Fatal signal caught! > > I have this line in my host.cfg: > > 0.0.0.0 .default. # COMPACT:status=conn,info > > Without the COMPACT statement the hosts.cfg file works fine. > Also if I put a COMPACT entry somewhere in the host.cfg it crashes our just doesn't work. > > Has anyone seen a working example in the latest version 4.3.7? I'm just replying to confirm that I also get this fault. Regards, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon ************************************************************************ **** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither the RWE Group of Companies nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). ************************************************************************ ***** _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither the RWE Group of Companies nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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COMPACT not working
by F.Reenders＠utwente.nl 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hi, When I use COMPACT in the hosts.cfg file the xymongen program crashes. Message when I click the xymongen icon after my xymon server: - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! I have this line in my host.cfg: 0.0.0.0 .default. # COMPACT:status=conn,info Without the COMPACT statement the hosts.cfg file works fine. Also if I put a COMPACT entry somewhere in the host.cfg it crashes our just doesn't work. Has anyone seen a working example in the latest version 4.3.7? Regards, Frederik Reenders

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Can't have COMPACT working
by joel＠carnat.net 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hello, I'm trying to use the "COMPACT" feature on Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 without success. In the bb-host file, I tried: 0.0.0.0 .default. # COMPACT:status=conn,info and also: 192.168.0.2 esxi # COMPACT:status=conn,info ssh But this doesn't work as expected. In both case, the "conn" and "info" columns are still there and a "status" column never appears. Did I miss something ? TIA, Jo

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Problem in memory check for virtual machines in Solaris.
by olivier＠audry.fr 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

hello see what we got : Wed Feb 29 12:06:22 CET 2012 - Memory CRITICAL Memory Used Total Percentage Physical 18446744073709551556M 5120M18446744073709551615% Swap 58828M 73230M 80% Status unchanged in 0 hours, 39 minutes Status message received from 10.205.70.57 Client data available This problem began to appear when we enable xpart in global zone of Solaris and only appears when machine has limited memory with rcapadm memory. Could you see what is the problem? here what we got in client data. [memory] 1 0 0 17343576 5471400 730 3253 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10087 43311 10885 7 3 91 thx for your help. oau

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RV: hello I need pakage for solaris 9
by VAZQUEZP＠telmex.com 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello!!! Could you help to het tha pakagge softare for solaris 9 Xymon? Plase. Thanks.... Ing Pablo Vázquez Juárez Tel. 01 442 101 82 28 Operación SUN Qro. Triara Qro. -----Mensaje original----- De: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Enviado el: Martes, 27 de Marzo de 2012 10:28 a.m. Para: Vázquez Juárez Pablo Asunto: Re: hello I need pakage for solaris 9 Hi Pablo, try sending this request to the mailing list - xymon at xymon.com - instead. Personally, I don't have the hardware to build Solaris packages, but I am sure others on the mailing list can help you. Regards, Henrik On 27-03-2012 18:14, Vázquez Juárez Pablo wrote: > hello !! > I am Pablo Vazquez and I´m traying install xymon in solaris 9 but A > did´n found the software for this OS , I need hep to found the pakagge > from xymon.¿Could you send me please?. > Thanks a lot for your attention. > > Ing Pablo Vázquez Juárez > Tel. 01 442 101 82 28 > Operación SUN Qro. > Triara Qro. > > > Más de 40 mil técnicos e ingenieros te respaldan con su experiencia y > capacidad. Telmex.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:* > This e-mail message including attachments, if any, is intended only for > the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > confidential and /or privileged material. Any review, use, disclosure or > distribution of such confidential information without the written > authorization of Teléfonos de México is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > destroy all copies of the original message. By receiving this e-mail you > acknowledge that any breach by you and/or your representatives of the > above provisions may entitle Teléfonos de México to seek for damages. > > *AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD:* > Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al > mismo, pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o > privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la > persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, > revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la > autorización por escrito de Teléfonos de México está prohibida. Si usted > no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de > contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el > correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualesquiera copia del > mismo. Mediante la recepción del presente correo usted reconoce y acepta > que en caso de incumplimiento de su parte y/o de sus representantes a > los términos antes mencionados, Teléfonos de México tendrá derecho a los > daños y perjuicios que esto le cause. > > 10:16:22 03/27/12

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Antw.: Antw.: Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc)
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello, I’ve got it managed to create a workaround for our company. This contains some steps: 1) i decided to add specific tags to the hosts.cfg file (i.e. “PT” for telnet, “PS” for ssh, “PR” for rdp, “HT” for http, “HS” for https – just my idea to identify “my” options….) 2) i created a script which walks through the hosts.cfg, looks for those option tags and creates “per-host-specific” html files, which are placed in the server/www/notes/ directory - these files contain the protocol specific connect URL as shown in the screenshots: a. for PuTTY [cid:image002.png at 01CD05C1.69825AB0] b. for RDP / RDP console: [cid:image003.png at 01CD05C1.69825AB0] c. for https: [cid:image004.png at 01CD05C1.69825AB0] 3) i did that for any of “my” protocol tags; depending on “my” tags, the script creates more than one protocol entry 4) i added the specific protocol handler to the registry and I’m using a special compiled putty version to accept a “%1” parameter in the command line 5) Disadvantage: you cannot use another “notes” page any longer The above sounds very confusing, but for our company it’s working. I had no success creating an additional column per host to include an optional connect url. Regards Christian Von: Gé Janssen [mailto:ge.janssen at gmail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2012 09:36 An: Becker Christian Betreff: [Spam:] Re: [Xymon] Antw.: Antw.: Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc) Im Rahmen der Firmenrichtlinie wurde die Nachricht als Spam identifiziert Hello Christian, Seen your message on the xymon mailing list. Did you had any success? I tried it, but didn't succeed: https://home.gejanssen.com/xymon/Linux/Linux.html The mercure server has the putty remark, but no success. Regards Gé Janssen On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>> wrote: Jon, your idea sounds very good! I'll give this a try on Monday. Think that's what I want Thank you, Regards Christian Sent using HTC Desire ----- Reply message ----- Von: "Jon Dustin" <jdustin at usm.maine.edu<mailto:jdustin at usm.maine.edu>> Datum: Fr., Mär. 9, 2012 23:19 Betreff: [Xymon] Antw.: Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc) An: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> >>> On 3/9/2012 at 3:44 PM, in message <0020F6A9-8970-412C-8584-952204D4506F at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:0020F6A9-8970-412C-8584-952204D4506F at rhein-zeitung.net>>, Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>> wrote: > Don, > using a normal Windows machine I want to view the xymon monitoring pages. If > a page contains for example Linux servers, I want to have a PuTTY column. > Clicking on that should open PuTTY on my local Windows pc and connect to the > selected Linux server on the xymon page. The same with telnet for Cisco > devices and mstsc for Windows machines. That enables me to connect to nearly > all monitored machines from one point just by clicking webpages. How about if you use the built-in "info" button in Xymon? Look at the HOSTS.CFG manpages, specifically: DESCR:Hosttype:Description Define some informational text about the host. The "Hosttype" is a text describing the type of this device - "router", "switch", "hub", "server" etc. The "Description" is an informational text that will be shown on the "Info" column page; this can e.g. be used to store information about the physical location of the device, contact persons etc. If the text contain whitespace, you must enclose it in double-quotes, e.g. DESCR:"switch:4th floor Marketing switch" You may add html code to the DESCR field, and your browser will make it "clickable". I think you're wanting something like the following: (hosts.cfg) 192.168.1.24 servername.co.com<http://servername.co.com> # DESCR:"Web Server:description <a href=ssh:192.168.1.24>ssh</a>" The above entry inside hosts.cfg would add a link of ssh:192.168.1.24 to the "info" button associated with that host in Xymon. I hope this is clear; good luck! -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 207-780-4152 ________________________________ CSC • This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Deutschland Services GmbH • Registered Office: Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany • Board of Directors: Gerhard Fercho (Chairman),Thomas Nebe, Peter Schmidt • Registered in Germany: HRB 7574, Wiesbaden

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Tricky one for log file monitoring
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

We have a requirement that would allow us to move some more of our monitoring into Xymon if we could find a way of doing it. Basically the issue is this, Message appears in log file for failure - from this we want an alert that will stay active and not expire after 30 minutes like log file alerts usually do. We will hopefully then get a message in the log file that tells us of completion of the failed process, at this point we want to clear the alert. Is anyone doing anything like this or have any idea how we might go about it? Regards, Neil Simmonds Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority -------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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British Summertime
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

We've got a strange issue occurring since yesterday morning. We monitor a file to make sure it has been updated in the last 32 minutes but it's currently flagging red claiming the file was last modified 4294964222 seconds ago (just over 136 years). I can only assume that this has been caused by the clock change from GMT to BST and I suspect that as the client is Windows and the server is Linux that the server is using UTC for the calculation. Has anyone seen this behaviour and more importantly, does anyone know how to fix it? I've looked through man pages for analysis.cfg, bbwin.cfg and xymonserver.cfg but can't see anything that might help. Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority -------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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Problems running xymonclient 4.3.0 on RHES4
by klaas.eenkhoorn＠vtspn.nl 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Dear All, This morning i've compiled a new xymon 4.3.0 client on our RedHat ES 4 server. Added "locator.o" to CLIENTLIBOBJS in lib/Makefile And set # LIBRTDEF=-lrt # export LIBRTDEF Compiling went fine ... Collecting the data works fine ... according to the files in the /home/xymoncl/client/tmp dir No errors in the logfiles .... But the xymon server receives nothing. Checked the IP adress and portnumber all fine ... SE linux not active ... Any hints ? The same client version on RHES5 works fine on our servers ... Greetz, Klaas D. Eenkhoorn -------------------------Disclaimer------------------------------- De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n) en zij die van de geadresseerde(n) toestemming kregen dit bericht te lezen. Gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerde(n) is verboden. De informatie in dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) kan vertrouwelijk van aard zijn en kan binnen het bereik vallen van een geheimhoudingsplicht en een verschoningsrecht. -------------------------------------------------------------------

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