September 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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

19 Sep '12

Great , I will have first release up on www.squidworks.net<http://www.squidworks.net> under main menu item "247OnCall" in a few days and will be happy to work with you to get the service up and interfaced with xymon and switchvox. It will help me with the help docs and howto's Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:18 AM, "Matthew Neumark" <mneumark at savemart.com<mailto:mneumark at savemart.com>> wrote: Cubert, We use Switchvox. I might be interested in this application. Matthew Neumark >>> Shannon Anderson <sanderson at CORNETSER.com<mailto:sanderson at CORNETSER.com>> 9/17/2012 12:50 PM >>> 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<http://Www.squidworks.net> _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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OpenSSL Errors for some https tests
by Michael.Gallen＠avotus.com 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi All I need help resolving OpenSSL errors for some internal and some public https sites. I am migrating from Hobbit 4.2.0 on CentOS 5.5 to Xymon 4.3.9 on CentOS 6.2 Everything works fine on CentOS 5.5 but on CentOS 6.2 we get SSL errors for some of our https sites. Some https sites test ok, others always fail. Hobbit uses openssl 0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7 Xymon uses openssl 1.0.0-25.el6_3.1 The error also displays when testing with wget and openssl -debug, please see below.. [xymon at xymon server]$ wget https://wiki.local.com --2012-09-17 16:19:45-- https://wiki.local.com/ Resolving wiki.avotuscorp.com... 10.12.0.61 Connecting to wiki.local.com|10.12.0.61|:443... connected. OpenSSL: error:140773F2:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert unexpected message Unable to establish SSL connection. [xymon at xymon server]$ openssl s_client -connect wiki.local.com:443 -state -debug CONNECTED(00000003) SSL_connect:before/connect initialization write to 0x89dcab0 [0x8a13ac8] (113 bytes => 113 (0x71)) 0000 - 16 03 01 00 6c 01 00 00-68 03 01 50 57 86 8f 01 ....l...h..PW... 0010 - 39 d7 67 bc af ad dd 03-01 44 c8 f7 ca 43 0e 69 9.g......D...C.i 0020 - bf dc 31 da 0b 44 c8 2f-5a 5c 57 00 00 3a 00 39 ..1..D./Z\W..:.9 0030 - 00 38 00 88 00 87 00 35-00 84 00 16 00 13 00 0a .8.....5........ 0040 - 00 33 00 32 00 9a 00 99-00 45 00 44 00 2f 00 96 .3.2.....E.D./.. 0050 - 00 41 00 05 00 04 00 15-00 12 00 09 00 14 00 11 .A.............. 0060 - 00 08 00 06 00 03 00 ff-02 01 00 00 04 00 23 ..............# 0071 - <SPACES/NULS> SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A read from 0x89dcab0 [0x8a19028] (7 bytes => 7 (0x7)) 0000 - 15 03 01 00 02 02 0a ....... SSL3 alert read:fatal:unexpected_message SSL_connect:error in SSLv2/v3 read server hello A 3077838572:error:140773F2:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert unexpected message:s23_clnt.c:674: --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 113 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE --- Thanks for any help Michael ________________________________ Disclaimer: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s) or have received this message in error, you are instructed to immediately notify the sender by return email and required to delete this message from your computer system. This communication does not form any contractual obligation on behalf of the sender, the sender's employer or such employer's parent company, affiliates or subsidiaries.

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Update xymon protocols.cfg file for MassTransit Service
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi folks. I've added a custom protocol listener to our protocols.cfg file for a product called MassTransit by Group Logic. Here is the detail from protocols.cfg: # Group Logic Mass Transit Service (File Transfer Protocol) # From Don Kuhlman [masstransit] expect "WATSON!" options banner port 50000 Where should I share this if anyone wants it? Thanks Don K

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Windows services on a cluster.
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Has anyone done anything in Xymon for monitoring windows services across a cluster. I've got a set of services I need to monitor and as long as they are running on one of 2 servers then all is OK. I can't seem to find a way to do this in Xymon. Has anyone done something like this? Perhaps I need to create a server side script to do it? 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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Devmon - scalability ?
by nicolas＠lienard.name 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

hello we got a xymon server polling ~ 8100 network devices (mainly cisco). devmon is used as well but the polling period is high: > 600 sec. (10 mn ). some purple are coming/leaving randomly :( the server is not overloaded : load average: 0.70, 0.71, 0.74 no I/O disk load (SSD disk). server is idling at 94% (16cpu). bandwidth reachs 60Mb in outboud. i m wondering if any people here have some tuning recommendations to have a better polling time (less than 300 sec idealy). for the moment, NUMFORKS is 60 (default 10) . dm stats: Polled devices: 8183 Polled tests: 16535 Avg tests/node: n/a # clear msgs: 0 SNMP test time: 321 Test logic time: 164 BB msg xfer time: 176 This poll period: 661 maybe running a second devmon instance on the same server could be better. any experience is welcome. cheers Nico

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Mailing list moved to new server
by henrik＠hswn.dk 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi, just a quick "heads-up" that the xymon.com domain now uses a new mailserver. The mail archive at lists.xymon.com has also been moved. This is of course to avoid problems in the future such as the problem last month where the mailing list was down for a week. Regards, Henrik

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Devmon - scalability ?
by nicolas＠lienard.name 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

hello we got a xymon server polling ~ 8100 network devices (mainly cisco). devmon is used as well but the polling period is high: > 600 sec. (10 mn ). some purple are coming/leaving randomly :( the server is not overloaded : load average: 0.70, 0.71, 0.74 no I/O disk load (SSD disk). server is idling at 94% (16cpu). bandwidth reachs 60Mb in outboud. i m wondering if any people here have some tuning recommendations to have a better polling time (less than 300 sec idealy). for the moment, NUMFORKS is 60 (default 10) . dm stats: Polled devices: 8183 Polled tests: 16535 Avg tests/node: n/a # clear msgs: 0 SNMP test time: 321 Test logic time: 164 BB msg xfer time: 176 This poll period: 661 maybe running a second devmon instance on the same server could be better. any experience is welcome. cheers Nico

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linux boot hangs on xymon start if networking is not available
by Ejones＠egov.com 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Has anyone encountered this situation? We have running both Redhat and OEL linux 5 and 6 on vmware, and we noticed that if networking doesn't start up on boot, the xymon start up will end up hanging the boot. We are starting it at the very end of starting everything else on the server, at the end of /etc/rc.local. But it was also happening when we were trying to start it as a service. ---------- Elizabeth Jones Unix Administrator - NIC, Inc. 25501 West Valley Parkway, Suite 300, Olathe, KS 66061 email: ejones at egov.com<mailto:ejones at egov.com>

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xymonclient.log flooded with "No LSB modules are available."
by thomleavitt＠gmail.com 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

root at cents:/var/log/xymon# vi xymonclient.log No LSB modules are available. The bug report here describes the likely source of the problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/66914 Relevant excerpt: *** This behaviour seems correct to me. http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-gener… "If no options are given, the -v option is assumed." -v requires the display of LSB modules, which in Debian/Ubuntu are implemented by the lsb-* metapackages. If you have none of those installed, then you'll get the output you quote. However, if you simply say 'lsb_release -a', you'll get the information you asked for. This is in accordance with the specification for lsb_release. *** Host machine output: root at cents:/var/log/xymon# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid root at cents:/var/log/xymon# lsb_release No LSB modules are available. root at cents:/var/log/xymon# Interestingly, the code calls /usr/bin/lsb_release -r -i -s | xargs echo Which produces the correct result: Ubuntu 10.04. However, the next line after it isn't filtered... looks like the error message being logged is going to standard out and being logged as a result, while the rest of the output is being properly redirected to the msg file in /var/lib/xymon/tmp. elif [ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ]; then /usr/bin/lsb_release -r -i -s | xargs echo /usr/bin/lsb_release -a I suggest that the standard output of lsb_release -a be filtered to eliminate the errant error mesage. Regards, Thomas Leavitt

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Native SNMP support
by fclaire＠free.fr 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

I'm currently building a new Xymon server and I'd like to use the native SNMP monitoring feature. I see snmpmibs.cfg is included with the latest versions of xymon. Is there a way to get alarms triggered on some monitored values ? Is Devmon still the only way to have full SNMP monitoring with Xymon ?

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