May 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

is there any way to access a xymon monitor on hand held devices!!!
by setu.dixit＠gmail.com 24 May '12

24 May '12

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email acks
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 24 May '12

24 May '12

I recently implemented acknowledgements via email. Today we notice that the ack is by postmaster. I'm not thrilled by that. Did I set something up wrong? Is there a way to get the actual email address of the ack'er in the acknowledgement? Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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html_mail1.2 is using simple hostname instead of FQDN in the link in the message
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hello out there, Perhaps there's anybody else using alerts:html_mail1.2 which is available from http://xymonton.org/alerts:html_mail1.2 I've set it up and i've done some changes to the way it sends the subject and the body. All of this is working fine. There's one thing that makes me wonder and I've tried a bit for me, but I'm concerned why I cannot get this to work. The body of the eMails coming from the perl script contains a link to the affected host, for example: http://XYMONHOST/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=testhost&SERVICE=http But I need to have the link as follows: http://XYMONHOST.FULL-QUALIFIED-DOMAIN/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=testhos… This is due to the fact that we do monitoring for different customers having their Xymon servers with different domain names. For example, we have a Xymon server xymonA.domainA.org and another one called xymonB.domainB.org. Therefore I need the fully qualified hostname in the link. While reviewing the perl code of the script I recognized a section "Retrieve the data from the environment variables". Within there I inserted a line $BBSERVERHOSTNAME = $ENV{'BBSERVERHOSTNAME'} || ""; The syntax is the same as for the other variables. Then I changed the line containing the subject for the eMail to contain this variable instead of $BBSERVERWWWNAME. As last step I changed the setting for the XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME (which is also set as BBSERVERHOSTNAME) in xymonserver.cfg. After restarting the xymon services and the webserver I'm still getting eMails containing the link WITHOUT having the fully qualified hostname. I'm NOT getting entries in /var/log/xymon/alert.log saying that the variable $BBSERVERHOSTNAME is uninitialized. When commenting out the line $BBSERVERHOSTNAME = $ENV{'BBSERVERHOSTNAME'} || ""; in the perl script, then I get this message. For me this means, that I might have done the most things the right way; didn't i? Anybody out there having an idea? Sorry if my english isn't at 100%.... CHRISTIAN BECKER System Engineer CSC August-Horch-Strasse 28, 56070 Koblenz, Germany ________________________________ 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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Problems with the PROC test
by cdilorenzo＠gmail.com 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hello, I have the following in my hobbit-clients.cfg file: HOST=%srvc-* PROC java 1 1 red PROC mule 2 2 red I have about 10 servers that fit this naming convention. However, only 3 of them are performing this test. The other 7 state "No process check defined" but the running processes are listed. All 10 of the servers are communicating with the Xymon server with no issues. The 3 that are working were built a while ago...maybe about a year ago and not my be. The other 7 were built recently. There is something different between these 2 sets of servers, but I don't know what it is. They are all running the same version of Xymon and CentOS. They are all reporting to the same server. It almost looks like some sort of permission error. Can someone point me where to look? Filesystem permission, config file... Thanks, Chris

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Installing packaged version of xymon-client
by thomleavitt＠gmail.com 23 May '12

23 May '12

I installed the Xymon server and client packages on an Ubuntu host without problems, and they seemed to work really well. I then went to a client machine, and installed xymon_4.3.7_i386.deb using dpkg -i and it appears that no files were created in /etc/init.d/ (unlike on the server). This appears to be a known issue: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3388971&group_id=1… ... this makes me wonder if anything else is missing? Thomas

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AUTO: Adriaan de Lange is out of the office - LEAVE - (returning 05/30/2012)
by ADRIAANL＠za.ibm.com 23 May '12

23 May '12

I am out of the office until 05/30/2012. Good dayPlease note that I’m on family responsibility leave from 23 May 22, 2012 to May 29, 2012 (back at office May 30, 2012) Should need urgent assistance please contact Cassim Abrahams. Cassim Abrahams | ITS Service Delivery Manager | ITS Office: +27 11 302 5477 IBM Sub-Sahara Africa, IBM Park, 70 Rivonia road, Sandhurst, 2196 Regards, Adriaan De Lange Certified IT Specialist ITS Phone: 27(0)844336810 E-mail: ADRIAANL at za.ibm.com Note: This is an automated response to your message "Xymon Digest, Vol 16, Issue 21" sent on 23/5/2012 12:00:01. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Changing sender of alert emails?
by skadz＠skadz.com 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hi Folks - I have 2 instances of Xymon running (one internal to my network and one external). We have decided we want to set up the ability to ack over email. This is very easily set up (already did it on the internal version), except for one small detail, email from BOTH comes from xymon at mydomain.com. This means that replying to this address can only go to one or both. Both kind of stinks, as it means one system will be getting bad ack's all the time (and then xymond will go yellow). I'd like to set the email sender on the external instance to something different, but can't seem to find it anywhere in any of the configs. I looked through alerts.cfg and the man page and nothing stood out to me. Is this possible? Thanks! Skadz

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sending data without running a client
by Ejones＠egov.com 21 May '12

21 May '12

Is it possible to send data directly to the xymon server from another server without having a xymon client sending it? We have some production servers where I am not comfortable installing the client because it wants packages that are not already installed on those servers. Can I have my own scripts send data directly? ---------- Elizabeth Jones

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BBWin or XymonPSClient
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi all Should I be using BBWin or the PowerShell client on my Windows nodes (mix of Windows XP, 7, 2008R2)? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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HTML Format removal form email
by inorfolk＠hotmail.com 21 May '12

21 May '12

All, I have formated the messages from my devmon tests as html tables, which looks very nice on the Xymon web pages, but not so good when emailed out in alerts. Is there any trick to getting the html tags replaced for tabs and cr so it looks ok on email? I guess a bit of a script with some regex transforms would do it. Thanks, ian.

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