May 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Windows Mount Points
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 18 May '12

18 May '12

Not sure what the windows guys do (at the O/S level), but BBWin monitors these for us. I know they in some cases had to make a change. They 'tweak' something when they don't show up after they are first mounted. .....Bruce From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Newton, Steve (PHH) Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:51 AM To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: [Xymon] Windows Mount Points Hello, Can anyone tell me if there is a external script to monitor windows mount points? Steve Newton Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email NOTICE: This communication and any attachments may contain non-public, confidential and/or proprietary information for disclosure to and use by the intended recipient only. If you have received this communication in error, please delete or destroy it and all copies and attachments immediately, and notify the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any review, distribution or printing of this communication is prohibited. An error in transmission is not intended to waive confidentiality or privilege. We reserve the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to monitor electronic communications.

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client with wrong host name
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 18 May '12

18 May '12

I have been using Xymon sucessfully for several weeks on my local machine as a client / server. I have now attempted to move the client portion to another system. Per the CLIENT.READ me, all I had to do was create a xymon user and copy the /home/xymon/client directory over to the cleint. I started the client and all appeared well. However, the hostname on that system is generic and doesn't resolve to the correct DNS. In other words the host name on that system (1.2.3.4) is hostname. However, "hostname" resolves over the network as 4.3.2.1. So, when the ping test runs, it runs for 4.3.2.1. Another thing to note is that on the ghost screen, there is a ghost showing as reporting from that host... but also shows that the same host name is a Candidate. How do I tell Xymon that they are the same thing? Also, I am having another problem on the client whereas I'm getting a "connection refused" when trying to send the the xymon command. I have to assume this means that this is local to that machine. However, I've got my firewall turned off, so I'm not sure I understand how that can be. -- Michael Beatty Sherwin-Williams IT Analyst/Developer michael.beatty at sherwin.com 216-515-7374

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Windows Mount Points
by Steve.Newton＠PHH.com 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hello, Can anyone tell me if there is a external script to monitor windows mount points? Steve Newton ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email NOTICE: This communication and any attachments may contain non-public, confidential and/or proprietary information for disclosure to and use by the intended recipient only. If you have received this communication in error, please delete or destroy it and all copies and attachments immediately, and notify the sender. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any review, distribution or printing of this communication is prohibited. An error in transmission is not intended to waive confidentiality or privilege. We reserve the right, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to monitor electronic communications.

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BBWin external downtime
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 17 May '12

17 May '12

We have a new external script that we only want to run every 30 minutes between 08:20 and 22:20. I know I can add a timer value in BBWin.cfg to only run every 30 minutes but I can't seem to find a way to specify that it only runs between 08:20 and 22:20 Does anyone know if there is a way to do this on the Xymon server side as I suspect there is no way to do it on the client side (other than scheduling the script through windows which I want to avoid if possible). Regards, Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk 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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DNS lookup occurs even with noconn
by Alan.FORD＠stanwell.com 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi all, I have databases and webpages in my hosts.cfg like this.. 0.0.0.0 Oracle_Enterprise_Manager # prefer noping noconn https://ictoem01.stanwell.com:7801/em/console # Obviously a web page 0.0.0.0 soapro # prefer noconn # This is an oracle database which I have tests sent to. What I find is that even with noconn, it still attempts to resolve the server name ie Oracle_Enterprise_Manager I have managed to fix this by modifying xymonnet.c on line 839 >From this... if (!h->testip && (dnsmethod != IP_ONLY)) add_host_to_dns_queue(h->hostname); to this if (!h->testip && !h->noconn && (dnsmethod != IP_ONLY)) add_host_to_dns_queue(h->hostname); Any comments or possible breaking of Xymon?? If my interpretaion is what is expected for the noconn test maybe Henrik could put this in as a bug fix :) Thanks Alan Ford Senior Database Administrator Com Serv - Information Communications and Technology Stanwell Corporation Limited www.stanwell.com<http://www.stanwell.com> This email is to be read subject to the email disclaimer located at http://www.stanwell.com/email-disclaimer.aspx

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xymonnet runtime long on ping tests results sent
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 16 May '12

16 May '12

What could cause a very long time to send ping test results? PING test completed (166 hosts) 593954.047266 9.117369 PING test results sent 594410.634681 456.587415

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vmware or similar virtual image
by jkokino＠gmail.com 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hello and good afternoon I'd like to kindly ask you for help with this. I really think the community needs an easy to use virtual image of this tool. Easy available for those like me with no time for linux and which know the os, however, they are not experienced when we compare them to those which work on linux on a day to day basis I have an old installation of Xymon 4.2.3 on Fedora 10 vmware. I get in with the free inodes and free disk space troubles 2-3 times per year, and then load the old backup of the virtual image. I'd like to have the latest version of xymon with no problems regarding the inodes issue. Back, an year ago I was not able to find an easy solution to the inodes issue, being 100% full. Free disk space is ok and I can handle it. I am no linux expert and have less and less time to read and troubleshoot it. Can you please help with an image, prepared with the latest xymon and snmp support eventually. Then I will configure the hosts and the alerts. Its really journey to install and update all packages all over again for someone which is not a linux person a day to day basis. So, this will greatly help me and I think it will really help to alot of people to try it. Everyone can try with this out of the box solution. ESXi is also ok, or vmware player simple virtual image. It will be wonderful if someone shares it's virtual image or someone prepares. Thanks

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Spoofing host names
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 16 May '12

16 May '12

I have a lab system I am trying to test Xymon with where all of the lab systems have the same host name that is the same as a single production system. For example, I have 3 lab computers... Lab1, Lab2, Lab3. They all have a hostname of prod101 (this is necessary for other system testing) How can I test running xymon on these lab systems when they all have the same host name? -- Michael Beatty Sherwin-Williams IT Analyst/Developer michael.beatty at sherwin.com 216-515-7374

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bbd service reporting red
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 15 May '12

15 May '12

I've got a remote client that I'm try to get working. I am sending scripted alerts up usingthe xymon command, and the alerts are coming to the server just fine, and reporting as they should. So I know the bbd service is working, yet it still reports red. The one anomaly that I can think of is that this particular host does not resolve over the network, so I had to put an entry in the hosts file for it to property resolve. However, when I do, the only system colums that display are bbd(red) conn, trends, and info, all green. If I take the entry out of the hosts file, all of the normal system alerts display green... cpu, disk, msgs, etc...but the bbd service still reports red. And, unfortunatly, the ping test resolves to the wrong machine. -- Michael Beatty Sherwin-Williams IT Analyst/Developer michael.beatty at sherwin.com 216-515-7374

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a mystery
by lebarber＠gmail.com 15 May '12

15 May '12

I was having trouble with xymond_alert not sending out all of the emails that it should, it was only doing maybe a quarter of the messages. I checked the alerts.cfg file and didn't find anything. Then I set the --debug flag for xymond_alert and things started working again. I've removed the --debug flag and things are still working correctly. Any ideas on what could have been going wrong here? Thanks, Larry Barber

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