September 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

TS - Need client for HP-UX 11.31
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

I am in need of a compiled Xymon client for HP-UX 11.31. I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on a Dell R-610 server with no problems at all. Do you have to compile source from scratch on the platform you require? If so, what part of the Xymon load needs to be placed on the new platform to compile? Has anyone actually got a VMware client working to monitor the host server? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D L-3 Communication Systems West 640 North 2200 West P.O. Box 16850 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 eFax (470) 201-6644 \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo-- Have A Nice Day ! It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -- W. Edwards Deming

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UNIX Apocalypse and disable/enable bug?
by david.gore＠verizon.com 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hi, We just had a UPS replaced and had to take down our primary Xymon server for more than 8 hours. It was a good chance to test disaster recovery. Our secondary server did really well, although I did find one problem. We use Ralph Mitchell's bluesync.sh shell script to keep our two Xymon servers in sync for disable/enabled hosts. It appeared that not all tests were properly disabled on the secondary server. The reason appears to be because the disable time goes past UNIX end time, of January 19th, 2038 03:14:07 GMT. The result is, if you query Xymon for the disable time and disable message, nothing is returned, time defaults to 0, null message. Would it be possible to update the code to not exceed UNIX end of time? What typically happens is someone wants to disable something for a while, and yes I know this is a bad habit, and enters 9999 or 99999 days or something similar. Perhaps it would be best, if disable time is past UNIX end of time, make UNIX end time the disable time? I should probably add that a side effect is the host/services do not display a disable reason nor do they display on the enable/disable page disabled. Although you will see their status blue on whatever page you have them displayed. ~David

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depends tag limitations (again)
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hi Henrik, Am I right in thinking that nothing has changed on this front? I just tried to use depends with a custom test and it did not seem to have any effect (on Xymon 4.3.7)... Dominique Frise wrote: > Hi, > > This is an extract of a previous reply from Henrik ( <http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00141.html) > > > ----------- > Henrik Stoerner wrote: > > Charles Jones wrote: > > > *It would be nice if the depend tag worked for any column/test type*. > > > I looked at using the "depends" tag, but it appears that *depends only > > > works for network checks*. > > > > Agreed. The dependency checks are currently implemented in the network > > test tool (bbtest-net), instead of in the hobbitd daemon - that is the > > reason why they only work for network tests. And that is purely for > > historical reasons. > > > > I expect to move all of the dependency code into hobbitd soon, together > > with the combination-test handling (the stuff currenly done by > > bbcombotest), that will eliminate this rather silly restriction. > > > > Regards, > > Henrik > ----------- > > Are the above limitations been removed in the current snapshot? > If not when is this going to be implemented? > > Thanks. > > Dominique > UNIL - University of Lausanne > Kind regards, SebA

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Small oddity - specifying max number of processes but no minimum.
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

I have a process named "foo". It is ok if there are zero instances of this process running, or one or more. I want to alert when there are more than three instances. If I put in analysis.cfg: PROC foo -1 3 yellow and there are no foo processes, the procs page shows: green foo (found 0, req. 1 or more) Color is correct, message is inaccurate Then if I have more than three I see: yellow foo (found 11, req. 1 or more) So I think the test is correct but the message is confusing. also it's not explicitly documented that you can use -1 to mean "no minimum" (server and client are 4.3.7)

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How to launch Xymon client on Ubuntu 12.04
by larry＠digonex.com 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Thanks for the info, I'm glad I am not nuts for not finding those files. I installed the xymon-client package through Ubuntu's repo via apt-get and I have it working now. It is confusing since it uses the old hobbit naming for files. I typically like to get software like this from the author's source (i.e. sourceforge) rather than the distro maintainer since they (Canonical) usually change a lot of things that conflict with the original documentation and file structure. Thu Sep 6 07:44:01 CEST 2012 Henrik Størner wrote: >Seems to be a packaging error in the client-package - it doesn't include >the /etc/init.d/xymon-client script. > >The real quick-and-dirty solution (until I figure out the Debian packaging bug) is to fetch the debian/xymon-client.init script from >http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon/branches/4.3.10/debian/xymon-… > >Copy it to /etc/init.d/xymon-client, then run > > chmod 755 /etc/init.d/xymon-client > update-rc.d xymon-client 98 02 > > >Regards, >Henrik Thanks, Larry

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Frequency of update of main system/page colors?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Is there a way to make the main color of a page update more frequently? And to pick up test changes more quickly? We have a test that is run once a minute, but the page for the servers on which that test appears often takes a minute or two to change color. This is causing some frustration for our application test team. Is there a way I can speed this up? thanks Betsy

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Xymon tests - changing case?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

I've just been through a couple rounds of changing the *case* of tests. Xymon seems to have an odd mix of case-insensitivity and case-sensitivity. If you create a test named MYTEST and decide later that it should be MyTest - it is rather hard to change. I am not sure if all these steps are necessary but I ended up doing this : a) rename the test to some temporary name (to keep it alive) b) drop the test c) turn xymon off d) blow away all references to the test in files in data/hist e) name the test to the new case f) restart xymon g) drop the temporary test name (I started with all lower-case test names. Lost that fight. Plus, it's kinda nice that naming a test with a capital letter keeps it prominent on the left)

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rrd graph creation
by lebarber＠gmail.com 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

I have a new Xymon installation on 64 bit RHEL5.8. I cannot get the rrd graphs to display, I am seeing the following in my Apache error logs: [Wed Sep 05 16:19:52 2012] [error] [client 199.134.170.66] , referer: https://xymonback.edc.ds1.usda.gov/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=bandobras&SE… [Wed Sep 05 16:19:52 2012] [error] [client 199.134.170.66] GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:135: failed to allocate 4294967296 bytes, referer: https://xymonback.edc.ds1.usda.gov/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=bandobras&SE… [Wed Sep 05 16:19:52 2012] [error] [client 199.134.170.66] aborting..., referer: https://xymonback.edc.ds1.usda.gov/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=bandobras&SE… Anybody have any idea what may be causing this? Thanks, Larry Barber

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How to launch Xymon client on Ubuntu 12.04
by larry＠digonex.com 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

There is no documentation regarding starting/configuring the client. Does the client run continuously (like a daemon) or is it run on-demand from the server? How do I start the client as I currently show no xymon processes in ps after installation? I tried running /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh, but it doesn't do anything but send a bunch of output to std out. I notice there are no init.d startup scripts either. The only info I'm getting from a monitored host is: conn, info, and trends, no cpu or disk, etc. How do I enable the other services? The config help page states: "With the Xymon client running and reporting data into Xymon, you should see the cpu-, disk-, memory- and procs-columns appear" and does not mention what config files need to be edited to set host thresholds (/etc/localclient.cfg???) Larry Rosen, Linux Administrator Digonex Technologies, Inc. 150 West Market St. - Suite 728, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, U.S.A. Telephone: 317.638.4150 X206 | Mobile: 317.385.7876 | Fax: 317.638.4174

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xymongen issue
by ray.reuter＠gmail.com 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

I wanted to drop the memory column from the all nongreen page so I ran the command : ./xymongen --nongreen-ignorecolumns=memory This is the result 2012-08-16 16:19:55 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed) 2012-08-16 16:19:55 -> Could not connect to Xymon daemon at 10.1.73.154 <http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon>:1984 (Connection refused) 2012-08-16 16:19:55 -> Recipient '10.1.73.154', timeout 15 2012-08-16 16:19:55 -> 1st line: 'xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist' 2012-08-16 16:19:55 xymond status-board not available, code 5 2012-08-16 16:19:55 Failed to load current Xymon status, aborting page-update The issue is my xymon host is not 10.1.73.154 it is a completely different ip. Can anyone tell me how to change that ip? Not sure when it got in there somewhere and I have searched the entire file system for any file containing that entry and it returns nothing. Ray Reuter

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