March 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Bug? - files test but no graphs?
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello, I noticed that the 'files' test shows a small icon near the bottom centre of the web page. This is in fact the 'zoom' icon usually associated with a graph. However, the 'files' test does not seem to produce a graph (on my test system anyway). The demo Xymon server at xymon.net also shows this problem (e.g. at http://xymon.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=jorn.hswn.dk&SERVICE=files The icon is just under the 'Client data available' text.) My first question is should the 'files' test be producing some sort of graph? It seems that by default the TEST2RRD and GRAPHS variables in xymonserver.cfg contain the 'files' test name, and so Xymon expects there to be some sort of graph. Taking out the 'files' entry from these variables, and the little icon disappears :-) So possibly this is a bug in xymonserver.cfg as supplied in the source code. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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dbcheck.pl with added PostgreSQL support
by sjcarr＠gmail.com 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

I tried contacting the developer of the dbcheck.pl scripts via SF ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl) but got no response so maybe he will be listening in on here... I took a copy of the SVN dbcheck.pl and have grafted in basic PostgreSQL support using Perl DBI::Pg (does ChkConn and TblSpace checking). If anyone is interested the scripts are in my GIT repo: https://web.lab.indigo-solutions.eu/git/?p=xymon-scripts.git;a=blob;f=ext/d… https://web.lab.indigo-solutions.eu/git/?p=xymon-scripts.git;a=blob;f=ext/H… Steve

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Problem with red delay.
by Alexandre.pelletan＠viacesi.fr 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello I'm new on using Xymon, i have a question about the delayred on an Http test. i always have problem to implément it. http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/776630xymonproblem.png here is my line on my bb_host file : 0.0.0.0 www.mywebsite.com # noconn http://www.mywebsite.com/ delayred=http:30 NK:http Please can you tell me if this sentence is right? regards. Alex [URL=http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=776630xymonproblem.png][IMG]ht… img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_776630xymonproblem.png[/IMG][/URL]

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Separating Windows and Unix hosts and dropping bbd column from web page
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi folks. I thought I was getting the hang of this but I seem to be missing something. I set up the hosts.cfg to use include files (see the snip below) to allow us to keep things more readable and managable. I am trying to figure out the best way to put the Windows systems and Unix systems in their own list on the "AllServers" page but still use the include files. Is there a tag or directive I can use on the #CLIENT line to have xymon take a Windows or Unix host and put in it the right group? Also, I'm having a problem getting one of the hosts to get rid of the purple status on bbd. I used the ./bb 127.0.0.1 "server2 drop bbd" command. I went into the hosts.cfg file for that server2 and tried !bbd, nobbd, NOBBD, but it still won't go away. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks! Don K 0.0.0.0 .default. # TITLE Server Lists byhostnames page AllServers Server Lists by Hostname group-sorted UNIX_Systems 10.1.nn.101 server1.domain.com # CLIENT:server1 10.1.nn.77 server2.domain.com # CLIENT:Server2 10.1.nn.81 server3.domain.com #http://server3.domain.com # These are the APP1 servers include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp1prod.cfg include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp1dev.cfg # These are the App2 servers include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp2prod.cfg include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp2test.cfg 10.1.nn.27 server3.domain.com #CLIENT:server3 http://server3.domain.com 10.1.nn.29 XYMON_Server #CLIENT:xyzxymon.domain.com http://xyzxymon.domain.com/xymon group-sorted WINDOWS_Systems 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:bbd 10.1.nn.11 SERVER4-Domain-DC #CLIENT:SERVER4 10.1.nn.67 SERVER5 #CLIENT:SERVER501 ftp ssh 10.1.nn.192 XYZCHIMEDAGT02 10.1.nn.10 Server6 #CLIENT:server6 10.1.70.100 WinXP #CLIENT:domain-27429192 dialup # Syntax for creating pages under subpages # subparent parentpage newpage [Page-title] page Applications Applications subpage app1 APP1 subparent app1 app12x APP1 2.x subparent app12x app12xprod APP1 2.x Prod subparent app12x app12xdev APP1 2.x Dev etc…

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Historical data not available
by raylee88＠gmail.com 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

I've noticed that a lot of times when I try to click on one of the historical status pages in Xymon, I get a message that says "Historical status log not available". This even happens for very recent historical pages. Then I looked at the history.log file and saw a whole bunch of these messages: 2012-03-16 12:06:31 Historylog directory /export/home/hobbit/data/histlogs has less than 5% free space - disabling save of data for 5 minutes But /export/home/hobbit/data/histlogs has plenty of free space left: (hobbit)@hobbit:~$ df -h /export/home/hobbit/data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d30 7.9G 4.0G 3.9G 51% /export/home Anyone know what's going on? Thanks, Ray

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source code browser with dependency graph
by vadud3＠gmail.com 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Not sure who should I thank for this. http://fossies.org/dox/xymon-4.3.7 nice! -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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History log output snapshot too old
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

It is known that xymon keep for each test output when status is changed. It saves 1st output received from test script (at least for custom tests) and do not update it in history until status is changed. I see this can be a problem is some situations. Imagine the situation - some active sessions appeared in DB, our test is tracking number and details of active sessions It is green when up to 5 sessions It is yellow until 30 sessions But in some circumstances the DB can crash (due to internal problems, which may be or may not caused by active requests) even at 26 sessions and we got status red because of error accessing DB. There may be other cases like this. For example server just crashed and not responding. I want too see last picture what was there just before crash. For me it would be much usefull to see last output snapshot of yellow when I am checking what was before red (before the incodent when DB crashed in out case). So, it would be nice to have ability to configure what output snapshots to keep in history for all or each test: * when status is just changed * or last snapshot * or both splitted Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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Working example for DS-override
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Can someone enlighten me? According to analysis.cfg.5.html: Example: Flag "conn" status a yellow if responsetime exceeds 100 msec. DS tcp.conn.rrd:sec >0.1 COLOR=yellow TEXT="Response time &V exceeds &U seconds" if I use: DS conn tcp.conn.rrd:sec > 0.035 color=red xymon (4.3.5) shows (red symbol) sec=0.031800 (> 0.00) Tue Mar 13 11:10:47 2012 conn ok Service conn on Verwaltungsstelle_Tecklenburg_Active is OK (up) (green symbol) 10.43.128.2 is alive (31.8 ms) The value is below the threshold, so it shouldn't go red. Using the above with TEXT: DS conn tcp.conn.rrd:sec > 0.035 color=red TEXT="Response &V to high" xymon shows: (red symbol) "Response 0.031700 to high Tue Mar 13 11:17:08 2012 conn ok Service conn on Verwaltungsstelle_Tecklenburg_Active is OK (up) (green symbol) 10.43.128.2 is alive (31.7 ms) Note that there is a leading qoute sign before "Response". Any tips welcome. Yours Hermann-Josef Beckers

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NOCOLUMNS - override .default. ?
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hello, Using Xymon 4.3.7 I have specified a '.default. entry in hosts.cfg which includes the NOCOLUMNS tag. The hosts.cfg man page says that per-host definitions will override the default ones. However, that doesn't seem to work with NOCOLUMNS. Hosts.cfg contains: ========================= 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:files,memory,ports,info,trends noclear 141.163.141.163 server-1 # testip conn !ftp !smtp !telnet dns ntp bbd ssh swap memory ports ========================= However, the memory and ports columns do not appear at all. Does anyone know if this is a bug or the way things are supposed to work? Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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depends - is it working?
by tsztur＠gmail.com 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

What is the official status on using depends? I need to make sure all my http content checks, ssh checks, etc depends on an outside host since the ISP xymon is hosted on is very up and down. Where can I find documentation on how to implement depends? I have tested ROUTE but it only seems to work on conn's . is this true? tia.

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