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TS - Trying to setup Xymon 4.3.10 on CentOS 6.3
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

I have tried to follow what instructions I can find for a new Xymon installation. I have installed the latest 4.3.10 of Xymon on a Dell R-710 with CentOS 6.3 (install option - web server) installed. When I try to start apache I get: [root at monitord ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 222 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/httpd/conf.d/xymon-apache.conf: Permission denied [FAILED] LINE 222 is the Include line: # # Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d" # Include conf.d/*.conf # If I comment out the 'Include' statement, Apache comes right up. The files in /etc/httpd/conf.d are: manual.conf perl.conf php.conf README ssl.conf webalizer.conf welcome.conf wsgi.conf xymon-apache.conf -> /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf ( Permissions: lrwxrwxrwx. ) [root at monitord conf.d]# cat xymon-apache.conf # This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x # # Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes # the Xymon webpages and cgi-scripts available in the # "/xymon" and "/xymon-cgi" URLs. # NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have # the Xymon webfiles as the root URL. In that case, # you should instead set this: # # DocumentRoot /home/xymon/server/www Alias /xymon/ "/home/xymon/server/www/" <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME" # # You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a # group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup # the "xymongroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require # a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details. AuthUserFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd AuthGroupFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymongroups AuthType Basic AuthName "Xymon Administration" # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in. Require valid-user # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND # are members of the "admins" group in xymongroups. # Require group admins </Directory> # Rewrite-rules for migrating from the URL's used in Hobbit RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/xymon/bb.html /xymon/xymon.html [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon/bb2.html /xymon/nongreen.html [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon/bbnk.html /xymon/critical.html [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-hist.sh /xymon-cgi/history.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-eventlog.sh /xymon-cgi/eventlog.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-rep.sh /xymon-cgi/report.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-replog.sh /xymon-cgi/reportlog.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-snapshot.sh /xymon-cgi/snapshot.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-findhost.sh /xymon-cgi/findhost.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-csvinfo.sh /xymon-cgi/csvinfo.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh /xymon-cgi/columndoc.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-datepage.sh /xymon-cgi/datepage.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh /xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-histlog.sh /xymon-cgi/historylog.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-confreport.sh /xymon-cgi/confreport.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-confreport-critical.sh /xymon-cgi/confreport-critical.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-nkview.sh /xymon-cgi/criticalview.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-certreport.sh /xymon-cgi/certreport.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-nongreen.sh /xymon-cgi/nongreen.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-hostgraphs.sh /xymon-cgi/hostgraphs.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh /xymon-cgi/ghostlist.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-notifylog.sh /xymon-cgi/notifications.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-hostlist.sh /xymon-cgi/hostlist.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-perfdata.sh /xymon-cgi/perfdata.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-topchanges.sh /xymon-cgi/topchanges.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-seccgi/bb-ack.sh /xymon-seccgi/acknowledge.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-seccgi/hobbit-enadis.sh /xymon-seccgi/enadis.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-seccgi/hobbit-nkedit.sh /xymon-seccgi/criticaleditor.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-seccgi/hobbit-ackinfo.sh /xymon-seccgi/ackinfo.sh [R=permanent,L] RewriteRule ^/xymon-seccgi/hobbit-useradm.sh /xymon-seccgi/useradm.sh [R=permanent,L] [root at monitord conf.d]# 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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Extra disk graphs
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi, Solaris 10, xymon 4.3.10 I want to make some custom disk graphs for capacity reporting. Ie, out of 20 filesystem reported by the normal disk function I want 3 graphs of my choice in one extra graph. The standard graphs should still be there. I tried different definitions in xymonserver.cfg in TEST2RRD disk=rootdisk (gives me what I want but the rest of the disk-graphs are a broken links) disk,disk=rootdisk (no luck) rootdisk (this generates nothing) in graphs.cfg ( I copied the [disk} def and changed FNPATTERN) [rootdisk] FNPATTERN disk,root.rrd TITLE ROOT Disk Utilization YAXIS % Full DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n I could probably go the long way around and create a custom script and use NCV. But I hoped I could use existing data. Any ideas how to generate these extra graphs? - Roland

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sending alerts about disk usage - multiple destination
by leszek.geba＠gmail.com 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi, my question is probably trivial, I apologise for that. I would like to monitor disk space on on multiple disks on one server and send messages to different recipients distinctively. i.e. I would like to send space usage warning messages related to "C drive" to email Recipient1 and do not want to send any message about it to email Recipient2 Also I would like to send space usage warning messages related to "D drive" to email Recipient2 and do not want to send any message about it to email Recipient1 I was trying to play with regular expressions, but I failed miserably. Any tip/suggestion would be much appreciated. -- kind regards Leszek G Geba

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how does delayyellow work?
by troy＠athabascau.ca 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

My Xymon 4.3.10 server has a host configured as follows: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX smtp # sm ~smtp ~smtps DOWNTIME=smtp,smtps:*:0500:0510:restart delayyellow=smtp:3,smtps:3,sm:6 The "sm" service has been yellow but only for less than 3 minutes. I didn't expect the status page to show yellow until after 6 minutes because of the " delayyellow" directive. What am I missing? cheers, Troy -- This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. ---

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NCV RRD graphing for JSON values
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I was hoping that Xymon's NCV parsing would understand JSON as the tutorial @ http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html does not specify that the NCVs need to be on seperate lines (although I subsequently found that "man xymond_rrd" does). It's a shame because a lot of data is presented as JSON these days. For example, I have this test, which returns this: http://URLremoved/ - Testing URL <http://192.168.4.135:8080/tracker/co.do> yields: { u:1391595, rc:3517, asc:1628, usc:2154} I am using SPLITNCV and it just creates a testname,_u.rrd file. I doubt it would involve a huge diff to get /xymond/rrd/do_ncv.c to understand this format. I also doubt that it is currently within my level of C programming proficiency though unfortunately. Kind regards, SebA

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Log/file monitoring based on occurrence?
by mburger＠bubbanfriends.org 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I've got a situation at work where we're being tasked with monitoring failed logins. We've got logging and audit file creation in place...what I'm looking for is whether or not there's a way to have Xymon monitor those logs/files to look for X entries/occurrences within Y amount of time. The requirement is to try to do as much as this programatically as possible without having to resort to scripting or other measures that may be easily countered by a system admin. Thanks. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

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xymonnet is slow to notify alert _and_ xymonnetagain log is missing
by vadud3＠gmail.com 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

According to traceroute xymonnet ping to host.example.com failed at 19:11:15, but the notification was sent at 19:20:37. The alert is configured to send notification immediately. Also, xymonnetagain should start doing ping test immediately as it is configured with interval 1m. But the next green status was not until 19:25:49. Where should I see the log for xymonnetagain did ping test ~ 5 times during this gap? xymonnet is default to interval 5m I am using xymon 4.3.10 on linux. Here are the relevant excerpts from various log files root at xymon { ~ }$ grep host.example.com /var/log/xymon/notifications.log.1 Sat Jan 19 19:20:37 2013 host.examplecom.conn (192.168.128.203) support at example.com[215] 1358641237 500 root at xymon { ~ }$ cat histlogs/host_example_com/conn/Sat_Jan_19_19\:20\:25_2013 red  Sat Jan 19 19:11:15 2013 conn NOT ok Service conn on host.example.com is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 1 poll periods (0 seconds) &red 192.168.128.203 is unreachable Traceroute results: traceroute to 192.168.128.203 (192.168.128.203), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 svcs-01.example.com (192.168.7.67) 0.510 ms 0.592 ms 0.697 ms 2 192.168.13.106 (192.168.13.106) 0.320 ms 0.341 ms 0.378 ms 3 core-02.example.com (192.168.13.101) 1.104 ms 1.092 ms 1.072 ms 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 * * * ..... 30 * * * Status unchanged in 0.00 minutes Message received from 192.168.0.53 root at xymon { ~ }$ cat histlogs/host_example_com/conn/Sat_Jan_19_19\:25\:49_2013 green  Sat Jan 19 19:25:49 2013 conn ok Service conn on host.example.com is OK (up) &green 192.168.128.203 is alive (35.3 ms) Status unchanged in 0.00 minutes Message received from 192.168.0.53 -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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Starting Xymon via init script no environment variables
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

I see there is " /usr/bin/sudo -u xymon /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh start" Try, instead, to use jus "su - ": # /usr/bin/su - xymon -c "/home/xymon/client/runclient.sh start" # su - username - starts the new session under user account with required user variables. auto-start script is run with root anyway - so You need to use sudo. Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- CoMinder Ltd. http://www.cominder.eu/ Mobile: +371 26517848 Fax: +371 66066346 On 17.01.2013 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: > /usr/bin/sudo -u

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Alerts list of confreport.cgi
by rower.master＠gmail.com 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hello All, Is there a way to generate the information below as we see into the info column and confreport.cgi with a command line? Alerts ServiceRecipient1st DelayStop afterRepeatTime of DayColors http EU at email.com (R)6m -2h -red EU2 at email.com (R) (R)6m -2h -red Thanks in advance. Regards, Mario.

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Combo test questions
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

We are thinking of implementing a few combo tests for our network elements (cisco routers with devmon). We're wondering about what happens if the primary goes down, and things failover successfully to the secondary. Then if we blue out the primary failure, would the combo test still work if the secondary goes down? We'd be bluing out the primaries test, not the combo test. Or would we need to do a more complex test that takes that into account? Thanks, Paul.

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