August 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Email alert clarifications
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Hi folks. I'm trying to clean up some of our alerts and need a bit of help with my configurations. In our webpage for a host, under the Info page, I see the configuration below for emails. cpu infrastructure at company.com (R) - - 30m W:0800:1600 purple,yellow,red appsupport at company.com (R) - - 30m W:0800:1600 purple,yellow,red appsupport at company.com - - 30m - purple,yellow,red The way I'm reading this, is that we have the CPU alerts set for any non green condition for this host to send an email to the infrastructure team every 30 minutes between 8 AM and 4PM weekdays. There are two places telling it to send the appsupport team an email every 30 minutes for any non-green condition. However, one is at any time, the other is weekdays 8AM – 4PM First question, why is there an "R" in parentheses behind the first two alerts? Second question, where can I find the source of my duplicated "appsupport" email ? Thanks Don K

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Multiple RRD graphs and text instance
by joel＠carnat.net 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Hi, When creating custom graph from multiple RRD, every GPRINT and COMMENT are repeated for each FNPATTERN. Is there a way to have text only written once. Something like: (...) COMMENT:@RRDPARAM@ title GPRINT:val at RRDIDX@:LAST:%4.0lf GPRINT:val at RRDIDX@:MIN:%4.0lf GPRINT:val at RRDIDX@:MAX:%4.0lf GPRINT:val at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE:%4.0lf\l COMMENT:Last comment written only once That will graph: param0 title 0 0 0 0 param1 title 0 0 0 0 param2 title 0 0 0 0 Last comment written only once TIA, Jo

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OverSize status message and network tests
by joea＠j4computers.com 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Recently moved to xymon 4.3.7 from hobbit 4.2 All seems reasonable except for two things. - Due to firewall issues, some net tests do not work. The firewall lets the "old" IP thru, but not the new servers IP. Go an answer to this some weeks back, which stated change ~server/etc/tasks.cfg to specify --source-ip=old.ip. This I took to go in [xymonnet] as an add on to the CMD line. retired old box and added IP to new box, as secondary IP, edited the file and restarted xymon server. No go. I can ping the destination successfully by telling ping to use the added IP as its source IP. I can see tcpdump tell me the source is still the original for the new server. ?? Th - While looking for clues, stumbled upon a oversize status message in xymond.log. It is oversize (!), but is being sent in the form (echo "status . . blah"; cat mymessage_file | blah formatting stuff | /home/xymon/client/bin/xymon my_server_name "@" -- Which someone on this list (Henrik ?) turned me on to a year or so ago. Anyway . . . Some assistance?

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Problem with bbwin and purple
by me＠tdiehl.org 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Hi, I have bbwin 0.13 running in central mode on several boxes talking to xymon 4.3.7. Most of the boxes are reporting as advertised. I have 3 of them that intermittently stop reporting and turn purple. The servers still seem to be talking to xymon but I get the following errors in the eventvwr: BBWin failed to send the client data successfully to the Xymon server. The error was : Can't send message : An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.. BBWin failed to send the client data successfully to the Xymon server. The error was : Can't send message : The operation completed successfully.. The above errors are from 2 different machines. tcpdump shows that the client and server are communicating. There is nothing in the xymon logs that gives any hints. The bbwin.cfg is as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="my.xymon.ip" /> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="my.other.xymon.ip" />      <setting name="mode" value="central" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> <setting name="autoreload" value="true" /> <setting name="timer" value="5m" /> <load name="bbwinupdate" value="bbwinupdate.dll"/> <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/> <load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/> <load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/> <load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/> <load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/> <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/> <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/> <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/> <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/> <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/> <load name="who" value="who.dll"/> <setting name="loglevel" value="3" /> <setting name="logpath" value="..\logs\BBWin.log"/>  <setting name="logreportfailure" value="false" /> </bbwin> </configuration> I have the following in analysis.cfg: CLASS=win32 LOAD 80 90 # Load threholds are in % MEMPHYS 99 101 MEMSWAP 90 97 MEMACT 97 99 SVC Dhcp startup=automatic status=started PROC svchost.exe 3 PORT STATE=LISTENING MIN=0 TRACK=Listen TEXT=Listen Does anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot this problem? -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org

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by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

i am getting following error on rhel 5.2 server running xymon 4.2.2 and now devmon-0.3.1-beta1 for the first time ./devmon --readbbhosts [12-08-06 at 01:01:43] No matching templates for device: svr2-test if i do snmpwalk -v2c -c public svr2-test ,i get SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux svr2-test 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 i hv created one template file cat templates/svr2-test vendor : HP model : HP server snmpver : 2 sysdesc : 2.6.18-128.el5 following is bb-hosts entry.. 192.168.0.110 svr2-test #ssh DEVMON:cid(public) pl let me know wt is wrong?

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Another weirdness - RRD info has gaps
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

These two graphs were generated from the same script, sending the same data to two different tests : http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsys99/7705982914/in/photostream You can see that the first test has chunks missing at regular intervals. These two graphs were made from the same data, sent from the same perl script, to two different tests, RTM and rtmstats. I did this originally back when I was having trouble with RRD choking on the extra information and wanted to separate the stats, but I've kept it because the one graph is so spotty. On the client side,my perl script for the test is logging that it is sending the data correctly, and I believe it's always displaying correctly on the test page On the xymon server, I see the rrd file for RTM is missing some entries that are populated on the rtmstats, for example: RTM:  <row><v>3.5954352000e+05</v><v>3.5456424000e+05</v><v>1.0610000000e+03</v><v>3.9142800000e+03</v><v>4.9752800000e+03</v><v>1.3876000000e+00</v></row>  <row><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v><v>NaN</v></row> rtmstats:  <row><v>3.5954352000e+05</v><v>3.5456424000e+05</v><v>1.0610000000e+03</v><v>3.9142800000e+03</v><v>4.9752800000e+03</v><v>1.3876000000e+00</v></row>  <row><v>3.8017446000e+05</v><v>3.7497760000e+05</v><v>1.0860800000e+03</v><v>4.1067800000e+03</v><v>5.1928600000e+03</v><v>1.3678000000e+00</v></row> What could be causing this discrepancy? Looking at that interval on the client side log: /home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h myhost.example.com.RTM green Wed Aug 1 17:04:15 2012 Total : 357039 Success : 352086 Temp_Errors : 1058 Other_Errors : 3891 Total_Errors : 4949 Percent_Failure : 1.39% <SNIP lots more stuff> '/home/xymon/client/bin/bb 10.100.5.42 'status+12h myhost.example.com.rtmstats green Wed Aug 1 17:04:15 2012 Total : 357039 Success : 352086 TempErrors : 1058 OtherErrors : 3891 TotalErrors : 4949 PercentFailure : 1.39%

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Custom test- stats graphs and verbose text displayed on one page?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '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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Xymon Monitor for Vmware ESXi
by gudm00＠gmail.com 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Well there is a new version online now which includes Stevens changes. I've also updated the SVN with the code so that is online now. regards Gudmo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Svenni > Sent: 02/18/12 06:25 PM > To: xymon > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Monitor for Vmware ESXi > > Thanks Steve. > > I hope submitting patches can be made easier through SourceForge in > the future. But I will let my college Gudmo decide how he goes about > this since he is the one currently developing and maintaining the script. > > Until then post patches here or send directly to me or Gudmo. It would be good if you could use SourceForge's subversion too. 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

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iostat - how?
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hello, I have been looking to see if we can get some 'iostat' data into Xymon. However, I see that the graphs.cfg and xymonserver.cfg files already seem to be ready for an 'iostat' test. I also see that the code has a 'xymond/rrd/do_iostat.c' module. However, I am not seeing any iostat graphs anywhere. A quick google seems to indicate that others have set up their own iostat script and run that on the client. Yet, Xymon itself looks like it is expecting iostat data, and so should be able to produce graphs. So I'm a bit confused. If I want to monitor iostat data (I'm thinking of the wait and service times, and the percent utilised (busy)), what do I have to do to supply that data to Xymon? Do I need to modify the 'client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh' script to include an '[iostat]' section? Or do I need to write an external script, and create my own 'iostat' test (but in that case what is the do_iostat.c code for)? Thanks, John. -- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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. . . network tests
by joea＠j4computers.com 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

>>> On 8/1/2012 at 4:26 PM, Henrik Størner<henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On 01-08-2012 20:01, Joseph Acquisto wrote: >>>>> "Joseph Acquisto" <joea at j4computers.com> 08/01/12 9:33 AM >>> >>>>>> Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> 07/31/12 8:38 PM >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Joseph Acquisto <joea at j4computers.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Recently moved to xymon 4.3.7 from hobbit 4.2 >>>> >>>> All seems reasonable except for two things. >>>> >>>> - Due to firewall issues, some net tests do not work. >>> >>> Which net tests work and which don't work? Do the working tests also come >>>from the default IP address? >> >>>> The only ones that work are those which already have firewall holes > established. >> >> I lied. Apparently only ping and conn test are being sent with the wrong > IP. >> >> fping path is set to /home/xymon/server/bin/xymonping >> >> Which works from command line with the option --source=desired_ip > > I'm not sure if xymonnet actually passes the source-ip on to xymonping > or fping. You could change the FPING setting in xymonserver.cfg to > include that --source option. > > I was thinking that myself, but was not sure that would work, or how to add it. I'll tinker with it and post. Did notice that one uses --source-ip and the other --source. Also, found that "ports" is apparently a client provided status. (one is embarrassed to confess). joe a.

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