July 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Memory monitoring - capped zone
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hi all I think I have eventually figured out how we can monitor memory in a meaningful way in a capped zone. Looking at the "client data" sent to the server, can anybody tell me which data are used to calculate the figures, and percentage used for memory? Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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Custom test- stats graphs and verbose text displayed on one page?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

I'm writing a custom test, call it "ABC", with a fair amount of verbose output. The test works fine. When I send just the colon-separated statistics to a separate test page, call it ABC_stats, the ABC_stats RRD graphs work fine. But I'm wondering, is there a way to get the ABC_stats graphs onto the ABC output page? I tried sending it all together but RRDtool choked on the unexpected data. Sample ABC output: Total : 460599 Success : 450123 Failed : 10472 Files examined /data/foo/bar/yadda.20120725.log /data/foo/bar/yadda.20120726.log Errors: /data/foo/bar/yadda.20120725.log had value XYZ outside the expected range /data/foo/bar/yadda.20120725.log had value ABC with incomplete data

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How to debug showgraph.sh?
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, I'm sure I saw a way to run showgraph.sh from the command-line in order to debug problems with it. As far as I remember it required setting the variable QUERY and perhaps some others before running it. I have looked, but cannot find how this was done. Can anyone offer any help here? (I have 4 client status pages for a local test which are not showing a graph, but are showing a link where the graph should be. The corresponding 'trends' page shows the graphs (so obviously RRD is working okay, and the graphs do exist). Also I have one client which does show the graph on the status page. So I want to see why one works and four fail.) Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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Xymon 4.3.8 possible bug in 'Most changing' report
by sholmes42＠mac.com 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Sorry if this has been reported before, I couldn't find it. When I look at the most changing hosts and services report ( a very useful feature ) without filtering on host name and click on one of the hosts listed I see the event log for that host. When I use the host name filter (e.g. ^lp.*$) then click on any of the host names listed it results in the event log for all hosts that pass the filter, not just for the selected host. Thanks, Steve Holmes Purdue University

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xymongen options.
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

We've been looking at ways of just showing reds on the critical systems view and I came across the xymongen option "--critical-reds-only" Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work. My xymongen entry in tasks.cfg looks like this, CMD xymongen $XYMONGENOPTS --report --critical-reds-only We're running Xymon 4.3.4 and as far as I can see, this option should work in this version. Has anyone else tried this or had any success with it. We know we can change a couple of lines in criticalview.c to get the required result but would prefer to keep away from changing the code 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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"include: command not found" in apache logs
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

There are a couple of shell scripts under cgi-bin that do this: . /path/to/xymonserver.cfg Unfortunately, I have an "include" in that file. So whenever I either do a report (report.sh) or look at a snapshot view (snapshot.sh) I get this kind of thing in the Apache log: [Wed Jul 25 09:45:18 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.11] /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg: line 4: include: command not found, referer: https://servername/xymon-cgi/report.sh My include specifies a file called xymonserver-local.cfg, in which I define server-specific configurations such as XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME and XYMONSERVERIP. So these won't be seen by these two CGI scripts. I doubt that any of the definitions in my include file are important. However, if I had ALL of my definintions in an include file, and xymonserver.cfg consisted only of "include otherfile.cfg", I wonder what would break. It's obvious that the way the definitions are added into the CGI script's environment is not appropriate for the type of file - "Even though it might look like a shell-script, it is NOT." Furthermore, this extra line appears to be redundant, given that $CGI_SNAPSHOT_OPTS and $CGI_REP_OPTS both include "--env $XYMONENV", and $XYMONENV is set to /path/to/xymonserver.cfg. So I suspect that this line can be taken out altogether. Cheers Jeremy

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disk graphs after a Solaris live_upgrade
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

After patching Solaris 10 using liveupgrade we get all the /.alt directories in the disk data graphs. Obviously they are in the RRD data file now, but totally redundant. All the graphs are messed up now. After patching was done and all these extra /.alt filesystems (one for each Zone, and we had 10) was unmounted The disk page looks normal again at the top, the df output. But all the graphs are messed up only the root fs and a data fs shows up in the graphs. We get all these non existing /.alt filesystems in the graphs and we are missing the original ones. Is there a way of getting it back to normal without destroying historical data? Maybe some fancy rrd command? And is there a way of preventing this for future liveupgrades? - Roland

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Separate column for network interface stats?
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello, Using Xymon 4.3.7 I can see network interface graphs for clients in the 'trends' column. However, is it possible to have these graphs displayed in their own 'ifstat' column? Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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SOAP test
by rower.master＠gmail.com 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hello all, I need to monitor some soap URLs and I´m not getting success on it. Does someone know how to create the request xml file for the SOAP test in xymon? Is there someone here who has a sample soap test to share? Thanks in advance, Mario Andre.

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Compile error 4.3.9
by sjpostsr＠gmail.com 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/xymon-4.3.9/xymonnet' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-pointer-sign -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I. -I/tmp/xymon-4.3.9/include -c -o httptest.o httptest.c httptest.c: In function âadd_http_testâ: httptest.c:552:84: error: âerrnoâ undeclared (first use in this function) httptest.c:552:84: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in make[1]: *** [httptest.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/xymon-4.3.9/xymonnet' make: *** [xymonnet-build] Error 2

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