September 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Issue with xymongen?
by Tom.Moore＠sas.com 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I want to make sure I’m not crazy.. but when I run the following command, I indeed get a “csv” file at the requested location. However, it apparently then overwrites everything in my xymon homepage with availability reports (like if you generated a report from the menu and it stuck it under /rep). xymongen --reportopts=1348200000:1348258672:0:all --csv=/tmp/report.csv I ran it with the debug option and indeed it is writing out all the status files in the XYMONWWHOME directory. Am I missing something on using this command? Thanks, Tom -- Tom

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dnsreg script question
by rblumenthal＠telmar.com 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012 Domain mydomain.com expires on : command not found The script looks like this: #!/bin/sh # Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire. # # NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query. # Requires GNU date. # Should run only once a day. NOW=`date "+%s"` WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000` # 10 days ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000` # 5 day /home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L do set $L DOMAIN=$2 EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[ ]*//'`" EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"` if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME then COLOR=red elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME then COLOR=yellow else COLOR=green fi $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date` Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING " done

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Clariion monitoring
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi all Has anybody done any work on monitoring an EMC Clariion system, that they are prepared to share? I have no idea what I need to monitor yet, and we have nothing in place at the moment, so anything is better than what I have now. All assistance appreciated. Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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dnsreg script question
by dddugan＠iastate.edu 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I run from cron daily with: /home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg /home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg A few other differences in my script: 1. I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a $XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly? 2. Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession. 3. Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING: EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`" Cheers. From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:rblumenthal at telmar.com] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: dnsreg script question I installed 'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it. From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at iastate.edu] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: dnsreg script question I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Russell Blumenthal Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012 Domain mydomain.com expires on : command not found The script looks like this: #!/bin/sh # Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire. # # NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query. # Requires GNU date. # Should run only once a day. NOW=`date "+%s"` WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000` # 10 days ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000` # 5 day /home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L do set $L DOMAIN=$2 EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[ ]*//'`" EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"` if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME then COLOR=red elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME then COLOR=yellow else COLOR=green fi $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date` Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING " done

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jboss monitorin
by lebarber＠gmail.com 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Has anybody found a good way to monitor jboss servers? I have a bunch of jboss installations and need some way to monitor their performance. I checked Xymonton but couldn't find anything useful (the jmxstat project appears to be dead, at least the link leading to the download is dead). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Larry Barber

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bbwin Windows services state text delayed?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, Running Xymon 4.3.7 on CentOS 5.6 – just started using bbwin-0.13 for our Windows servers – I’m seeing some funny behaviour when a service I’m monitoring is changing state:

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conn red does not send alarm mail
by robert＠schetterer.org 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, got the problem with latest xymon, host conn test goes red but no alarm mail got send, this happens only sometimes anyone an idea where to start debug? -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer

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not able to start xymond process!!
by setu.dixit＠gmail.com 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi All, I have just started with Xymon. I have installed xymon on Solaris 10 and setup Apache for the showing up the webpages. But now when i start xymon using the xymon.sh , only xymonlaunch is running. None other are running. And i am getting a message saying "libssl.so.1" is not available. No such file or directry." Kindly advice. Thanks, Chandra.

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24/7 OnCall Tech Rotation Web App for XYMon
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Fellow Xymoners, I am interested in getting some information from the users of XYMon on who uses Digium SwitchVox or Asterisk as a PBX platform? The reason I ask is.. Some of you out there know me as Cubert, the developer of the BBWin GUI application freely available for the BBWin Client used on Windows systems to send data to the XYMon server. I am working on a new application that uses Switchvox as a notification medium for XYMon alarms and would like to see who else (how many) out there might use the same systems and would like to see a free application that will control your oncall tech rotations and notifications? We currently have our Alpha.01 about ready for wide spread testing and will be releasing it under GPLv3 and could uses a few testers. Who uses Switchvox or Asterisk and would find calls for alarms as good notifications for alerts. Cubert Www.squidworks.net

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Historical, but no actual status?
by Harald.Husemann＠materna.de 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello Xymon-users, I hope someone can shed some light on this weird problem: I have a Hobbit server (Hobbit 4.2.0) monitoring a lot of clients without any problem. But, for some clients, I don't get an actual status for all columns reported by the agent, e.g. cpu, procs and msgs, only the net-based tests are showing up for these. When I call bb-hostsvc.sh for such a service, I get the usual error page ("status not available"). But, looking on the system, the clients send normal reports, I've snooped on the network layer and used the --dbghost parameter for hobbitd to get the report in tmp/ - to me, it seems to be okay, but it's still not shown. Even more weird, the RRD graphs for all these columns *are* present on the trends page, and I can get a historical status for each of them - but no actual... Any ideas? Thanks in advance, and have a nice hackin', Harald -- Harald Husemann Netzwerk- und Systemadministrator Operation Center (OC) MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Westfalendamm 98 44141 Dortmund Geschäftsführer: Dr. Winfried Materna, Helmut an de Meulen, Ralph Hartwig Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 5839 Tel: +49 231 9505 222 Fax: +49 231 9505 100 www.annyway.com <http://www.annyway.com/> www.materna.com <http://www.materna.com/>

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