February 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Henrik and Fellow Xymoners, Just for you I have pushed off any real work for today just to get you all a first release of MAGMA the XYMon Web GUI Admin. MAGMA is an add-on web GUI for managing Host, Groups and Alarms on a XYmon 4.3 or newer system. You can find MAGMA at http://www.squidworks.net/magma/ There you will find the description, screen shots and features of MAGMA along with the link to download the source package. It requires MySQL and PHP5 and is very simple to install. All supporting information is included in the tarball. How does it work? --------------------------- It stores all alarm and host/group configs in the SQL database and rewrites the Host.cfg, Analysis.cfg and Alarms.cfg files causing the XYmon system to update its tests and pages based on the changes in these files. It will overwrite the files each time a host is added or edited making the process of updating automatic. To get the full benefit of MAGMA you should place all hosts in "central" mode, although this is not required, without it your management is somewhat restrictive (external test management only). In Central mode you get full management features for all tests. If you have any questions or need some help just send me a email @ sanderson @ squidworks.net Cubert 8-) Aka Shannon Anderson

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Xymon and Oracle ASM?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Anyone got any good scripts for xymon and Oracle ASM?

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Raspberry Pi Xymon Server
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hi, is it possible to use a Raspberry Pi (512MB model running Debian Squeeze) as a Xymon server (only for a limited number of clients)? Regards, Nick Pettefar

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logstash output for xymon
by wbeauchaine＠katei.net 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Hello i use http://www.logstash.net and xymon so i adapted the logstash output zabbix for xymon: http://pastebin.com/UQBJF7m7 Actually i have not contacted logstash team to add this output. So if you want use this you need to copy this code to logstash/outputs/xymon.rb. Execute jar -uf logstash-1.1.0.1-monolithic.jar logstash/outputs/xymon.rb to add this on jar file i have only test this on linux if you have any question please contact me by email Regards, Wilfrid

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local mode client
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

One of my co-workers has installed xymon 4.3.7, and wants to use local mode for configuration. The display server is not receiving anything from his machine if things run normally, but when run by hand, xymon can send data from his server (Solaris) to the display server. I enabled xymond_client --debug in xymonclient.sh: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $MSGTMPFILE $XYMONHOME/bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/localclient .cfg <$MSGTMPFILE And now I'm getting this: + ../bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=528383 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Got 161874 bytes 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 ../bin/xymond_client: Got message 1 @client#1|0|127.0.0.1|neptune.lib.iastate.edu|sunos 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Opening file ../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Compiling regex ^/zones.*/ 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Client report from host neptune.lib.iastate.edu 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 neptune.lib.iastate.edu: Duplicate client message at time 0, seq 1, lastseq 0 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 2, startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=366509 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 get_xymond_message: Returning NULL due to EOF + rm -f ../tmp/msg.neptune.lib.iastate.edu.txt I'm not sure where to go from here. Does local mode still work for most people? -Tracy

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The Big Brother / Xymon summit
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi, Sean McGuire - the inventor of Big Brother - and myself managed to get together at "Sparkys Roadside Barbecue" in Miami last month. We had a very nice evening discussing Big Brother, Xymon, the foibles of our various corporate overlords, and generally covering a wide range of topics. In other words, I had a great evening - and I think Sean did too. Thanks to the Xymon users who donated "beer money" for the event, although Sean insisted to save those for another occasion. So if you've ever wondered what Sean or myself really look like, here's a couple of photos. It's Sean in the "barbecue-colored" shirt (his words, not mine). Regards, Henrik

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canceling acknowledgements
by lebarber＠gmail.com 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is there some way to cancel an 'ack' after it has been issued? Thanks, Larry Barber

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questions on MAGMA
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

So I got around to magma on my devel server yesterday. I guess I missed a step. It overwrote my hosts.cfg and analysis.cfg files. Is there a way to read in what I already have? Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

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Feature Request ~ logfetch
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

I see the comments made in logfetch.c /* Is it ok for these to be hardcoded ? */ #define MAXCHECK 102400 /* When starting, dont look at more than 100 KB of data */ #define MAXMINUTES 30 #define POSCOUNT ((MAXMINUTES / 5) + 1) #define LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER 5 My answer to this would be, "no". Due to various reasons, it is not desirable to run my client more than once every hour. Therefore, the msgs check for log files is almost useless unless I change these values (and honestly, I'm not even sure that would work as I haven't seen if this would impact anything else). If I ran my client every hour, I would lose 50% of my log data. I would like to see where the log check would be dependent on how long of an interval your client is run as opposed to a hard coded 30 minutes. -- Michael Beatty

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Xymon 4.3.10 holidays.cfg and Thanksgiving
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 27 Jul '13

27 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Saw a mention on the list previously about Thanksgiving winding up early on the calendar even though it theoretically is configured correctly in holidays.cfg. This issue still exists on 4.3.10, which I'm now running in pre-production. I have holidays.cfg set thusly: Thanksgiving:type=thu month=11 offset=4 Day after Thanksgiving:type=fri month=11 offset=4 ...the result is the following: Thanksgiving 11/21/12 Day after Thanksgiving 11/22/12 ...but, of course, 11/21 and 11/22 of 2012 is Wednesday and Thursday, not Thursday and Friday. I'm assuming this is a bug, not a misconfig. And to add a little nudge: > I've seen the issues described with Thanksgiving, but haven't had a > chance to look into the problem yet. If you don't hear anything > about it, it would be OK to send me a reminder in a months time or > so :-) > > Regards, Henrik Thanks in advance, and I'm really happy with 4.3.x and think my colleagues that rely on it will be too! - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlC2bSYACgkQmb+gadEcsb7shQCeKmhquWVNAry6sy7itT1um7S+ cUkAoMzAuJ6TPbOJ/mhyrgxJ6vPzb/4Q =hrXl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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