November 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

WinPSClient - Updates?
by JasonRP＠techheads.com 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

So it looks like the WinPSClient hasn’t been updated in a few months. I had seen a thread from quite a while ago about some issues David was running into, but can’t tell if he’s still around and willing/able to work on it. I’ve been able to get XymonPSClient.exe (aka SrvAny) to run powershell natively as a 64-bit executable. The only change necessary to enable this was changing the PowerShell executable to running as %windir%\sysnative\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe. The sysnative portion prevents a 32-bit program (SrvAny) from being redirected to %windir%\SysWow64. (See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187(v=vs.85).a…) I also found a better service wrapper than SrvAny, namely nssm (http://nssm.cc/) This has the ability to detect if powershell fails and restart it, which is something SrvAny lacks. It also comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so when using the latter the sysnative piece isn’t necessary. I’ve only been working at this for a day or two, so it probably needs more testing, but it looks promising. Is there any work (design contemplation) about how xymonclient.ps1 could handle external scripts? I assume this was just a future phase and not so much a limitation or barrier that hadn’t yet been overcome. Thanks. --- Jason Richards Pagh

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Set flapping by test
by germain1.malherbe＠orange.com 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hi All. Is it possible to set flapping's parameters (flap-count and flap-seconds) by test. Indeed, I would like to detect flapping on different intervals for some testname. Thanks in advance. Best Regards -- Germain Malherbe Orange - DSI France/Digital Factory/Hebex Bagnolet +33 1 58 96 62 51 / +33 6 87 66 99 43 germain1.malherbe at orange.com _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.

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recent icon duration
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Hi again. I'd like to modify the duration a 'recent' version of the icon displays. When a service changes states the icon changes. When it changes back to green the icon shows the 'green-recent.gif' icon instead of the 'green.gif' icon for 24 hours. I'd like to shorten that duration. Where do I change that? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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Feature - Ability to Ack purple?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Does anyone else think it would be useful to have the ability to ack purple? On the one hand, I understand that purples are outside the existing model of how acks work. On the other hand, operationally, without ACK there's no way to indicate that someone has taken ownership of a purple and is working it, other than signing it out. And we hate signing things out because that hides information.

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Disable SSL cert expiration test
by novosirj＠ca.rutgers.edu 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hi all, Is there a way to check an SSL service without caring if the cert is expired? I realize this may be an odd thing to want to do, but apparently in the application that it's being used the cert does not need to be current, just otherwise functioning to provide SSL (the real service is in front of a load balancer or something that doesn't care). Is there a way to make a cert expiration not cause the test to go red without playing with the source code? Thanks. -- ____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences* || \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*--------------------- ||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer || \\ and Health | novosirj at rutgers.edu - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) || \\ Sciences | OIT/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark `'

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Setting win svcs for monitoring using Display names
by juha.vuori＠pp2.inet.fi 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hello, As a happy user of Xymon for linux, z/VSE and z/VM monitoring since years, I now entered into the world of Windows. We have a win server with a big amount of auto-generated services, which should be centrally monitored by Xymon server. The problem is that the Display names of the services are human readable, like INV_ABC, but the Service names are generated and horrible, like D070AF2E-E343-40B9-9F23-45B8572309F4. I am running bbwin in centralized mode and Xymon server version 4.3.12, and I cannot find any other way to start to monitor these services than putting HOST=SRV123 SVC D070AF2E-E343-40B9-9F23-45B8572309F4 startup=automatic status=started in analysis.cfg instead of HOST=SRV123 SVC INV_ABC startup=automatic status=started which I would like to use. Is there a way (a setting in the bbwin client or xymon server) to use Display names instead of Service names when referring to the services in analysis.cfg? To clarify, the data the client sends now already includes the display name: [svcs] Name StartupType Status DisplayName D070AF2E-E343-40B9-9F23-45B8572309F4 automatic started INV_ABC ... BR, Juha Vuori

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Metrics reports on red/yellow duration? Unacked? Splunk?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

My grand-boss is looking to set some standards for how long we let reds and yellows go un-ACKed and un-resolved. There's a built in report but it seems to summarize total time red /yellow and what we're really interested in is how long it's taking us to respond. Has anyone done anything with this? I'm wondering if feeding the acklogs into splunk would let us work something up. And/or thinking about just trying to scrape this off the board. Thoughts and code snippets welcome

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use png's instead of gif's
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

I create my own icons for xymon, but I'd like to use png files instead of gif's. What config file are those specified in? I can easily overwrite the old icons with my new icons if I leave everything as gif's, but I'd like to make them png's instead. Where do I set that? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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Xymon on Cluster
by sjpostsr＠gmail.com 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

I am thinking about installing Xymon on a Linux Cluster and just wondering: 1) Is this possible? 2) If so, it is possible to spread the network tests across the nodes?

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Monitoring a specific word
by salahudin911＠gmail.com 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Good day, Can someone please explain how I can set up my Xymon app to monitor specific words or phrases on a web page? We have our system set up to monitor the availability of web sites and Xymon works as expected to alert us if a page is down via emails and sms's. The problem is that we need to also be alerted to an error output on web pages, for instance, if a page should display the status of an application, that would normally read “SUCCESSFUL”, but in the instance that app breaks and the output is "FAIL", we’d want to be alerted to that status change. Is that perhaps possible? Kind regards, Raz

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