February 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Issue with viewing history data for cpu usage
by Sridhar.Adapalli＠hhsc.state.tx.us 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi I am using Hobbit monitor 4.2., when I click on History button for all the parameters that I am monitoring (cpu, http, memory, etc.), I get a message "Cannot open history file". Can someone let me know how to fix this issue? Thanks -- Sridhar

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HA setup using xymonproxy
by abs＠shadymint.com 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, I'm trying to configure a pair of xymon servers each in a different datacentre, following the approach 2 given in http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Gu… Is this still a favoured approach and if so, how do you avoid a loop with client reports being endlessly forwarded between Xymon servers? Can anyone point me in the correct direction or show me what the configuration for xymond and xymonproxy would look like? Thanks -- Andy

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How to fine-tune limits for filesystem tests?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

All - A couple of questions re: the analysis.cfg file and its syntax for the "DISK" test: * The "U" suffix for warning / panic thresholds refers to *minimum* values for free-space available on the indicated file system, correct? In other words, the amount of free space has to fall below the indicated number of KB, right? * What we want is to alert when a combination of thresholds are in effect: the file systems are both (a) above a certain percent full, and (b) less than a certain amount of free space (in blocks, megs, whatever). How would I combine the two types of tests? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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bbwin: svcs green even if servie doesn't exist
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

You can't achieve this with BBWin svcs. It will only report services that exist in local mode. What you require can only be achieved with a custom script. ----- Original Message ----- From: Becker Christian Sent: 02/11/13 05:40 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] bbwin: svcs green even if servie doesn't exist Hello there, i couldn’t find an answer to this: if i have services to be monitored through bbwin in local mode, but the service doesn’t exist on that server, the appropriate column in Xymon is shown as green with no data in it. If this service exists but it isn’t started, the column goes red. But I have servers that definitively do not have these services installed and I want them to be red or yellow in Xymon – how can I achieve this? Best regards Christian CHRISTIAN BECKER System Engineer CSC August-Horch-Strasse 28, 56070 Koblenz, Germany Global Outsourcing Services Central Region ----------------------------------------------------------------- CSC • This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Deutschland Services GmbH • Registered Office: Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany • Board of Directors: Gerhard Fercho (Chairman),Thomas Nebe, Peter Schmidt • Registered in Germany: HRB 7574, Wiesbaden -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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bbwin: svcs green even if servie doesn't exist
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hello there, i couldn't find an answer to this: if i have services to be monitored through bbwin in local mode, but the service doesn't exist on that server, the appropriate column in Xymon is shown as green with no data in it. If this service exists but it isn't started, the column goes red. But I have servers that definitively do not have these services installed and I want them to be red or yellow in Xymon - how can I achieve this? Best regards Christian CHRISTIAN BECKER System Engineer CSC August-Horch-Strasse 28, 56070 Koblenz, Germany Global Outsourcing Services Central Region ________________________________ CSC * This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose * CSC Deutschland Services GmbH * Registered Office: Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany * Board of Directors: Gerhard Fercho (Chairman),Thomas Nebe, Peter Schmidt * Registered in Germany: HRB 7574, Wiesbaden

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BBWin hanging on Server 2008R2 SP1
by david.baldwin＠ausport.gov.au 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

On 7/02/13 3:38 AM, David Hay-Currie wrote: > > I had that problem with 2 clients so far (My own desktop and 1 server) > > Interesting enough the problem is that there is no registry entries > for BB win in HKLM\Software. > > I am testing re-installing the agent to see if that works > BBwin is 32-bit, so if the OS is 64-bit registry entries are in HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\BBWin I'm playing with exclusions in SCEP at present. I just managed to restart a purpled BBwin service after excluding the process using the exe full path, but have another few servers where no success in doing that :( David. > > > > *David Hay-Currie* > > *IT Manager* > > *Leisure Fitness Equipment LLC* > > *231 Executive Dr. Suite 15* > > *Newark, DE 19702* > > *Phone: (302) 224-5018* > > Leisure Fitness Logo <http://www.leisurefitness.com/?referrer=dhaycurrie> > > > > > > *From:*xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On > Behalf Of *David Baldwin > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 05, 2013 7:58 PM > *To:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* [Xymon] BBWin hanging on Server 2008R2 SP1 > > > > I have noticed a few of my monitored servers running BBWin having > BBWin.exe wedging recently - so all the client tests go purple. Maybe > triggered by a recent Windows update? The process cannot be killed, so > the service cannot restart without rebooting the server. Has anyone > else noticed this? Some are running 0.12 and others 0.13. All central > mode. We have also recently deployed SCEP AV so possibly some > interaction there? Recent versions of SCEP also make the MsMpSvc > service (Microsoft Antimalware Service) "invisible" to BBWin so it > does not get reported in the svcs section. > > Any suggestions appreciated! > > Thanks, David. > > -- > David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) > Information and Communication Technology Services > Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit > www.ausport.gov.au <http://www.ausport.gov.au> > > This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain > confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended > recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of > this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and > may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete > it and notify the sender. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617

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fieds description of channel status
by olivier＠audry.fr 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

hello there is a documentation about the fields out by the command : xymond_channel --channel=status cat ? For exemple : @@status#979591/hostname|1360323510.378351|192.168.0.1||hostname|svcs|1360325310|green||green|1360256592|0||0||1330689273||pagename/4234|0| status hostname.svcs green 2013-Feb-08 12:38:30 [hostname] - Autoreset is On &green .NET Runtime Optimization Service v2.0.50727_X86 is stopped @@ @@status#979591/hostname| => ok 1360323510.378351| => ?? 192.168.0.1| => ip | => ? hostname| => hostname svcs| => testname 1360325310| => timestamp status green| => from ? to ? color | => ? green| from ? to ? color 1360256592| => timestamp of ? 0| => ? | => ? 0| => ? | => ? 1330689273| timestamp of ? | => ? pagename/4234| page 0| thx for your help oau

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SSL Error after upgrading to Fedora 18
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Looks like Xymon is using a Cypher not supported by my server… Found this: An TLS 1.2 connection request was received from a remote client application, but none of the cipher suites supported by the client application are supported by the server. The SSL connection request has failed. Anyone have a suggestion for a fix? Jason Chambers Network Administrator | Geosoft geosoft.com<http://www.geosoft.com/> | blog<http://blogs.geosoft.com/> | twitter<http://twitter.com/geosoft> | linkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/company/geosoft-inc.> | facebook<http://www.facebook.com/GeosoftInc> | T +1 416.369.0111 #344 | M +1 416.508.1410 From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Another Xymon User Sent: January 28, 2013 1:35 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] SSL Error after upgrading to Fedora 18 See, the baffling thing is that it's only with xymon verification, not with openssl command line. xymon's somehow using a ca-bundle that does not have your self-signing cert in it. But since xymon doesn't have a configuration construct for pointing to a ca-bundle, it's taking a default. I would expect that to be the same default that "openssl verify <certfile>" takes. Oh, well. Hope you can figure it out.

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Date/Time options for Report URLs
by lworman＠wittenberg.edu 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

We are using a display management system to cycle through the various report displays that Xymon generates, for example the "Top Changes" & "Event Log" reports. Right now I have figured out how to setup the URL to generate the report for today, but the problem is that I have to manually update the display manager to pass the URL with today's date in order to get today's information: The URL is (using xymon.com as the example site): http://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/topchanges.sh?FROMTIME=2013/02/05 at 00:00:00&TOTIME=&HOSTMATCH=&EXHOSTMATCH=&PAGEMATCH=&PATHLIST=&EXPAGEMATCH=&TESTMATCH=&EXTESTMATCH=&COLORMATCH=&COUNTTYPE=events&TOP=10&Send=Show If you notice the "FROMTIME=" section has it manually entered in as '2013/02/05 at 00:00:00', which I have to update every day to the new date. Actually I have it set to '2013/02/01 at 00:00:00' and have it as a monthly view, but I would like it to be a daily view, as well as not have to change it every day/month. My question is are any of the following options possibilities? 1. Be able to pass some key words on the URL such as TODAY, YESTERDAY, TOMORROW. So that I could construct the URL as simply "FROMTIME=Today" or "FROMTIME=YESTERDAY", this way Xymon would just pass me the data for the day. 2. Could I pass the date/time without the "@00:00:00", and have Xymon assume 00:00:00. Since I can have the display management system sort of pass the date dynamically, but I can't have it append the @00:00:00. So if I could construct the URL in the following manner "FROMTIME=2013/02/05&TOTIME=2013/02/06" I would get the report for 2013/02/05 3. Possibly even change the format of the "FROMTIME=" to MM/DD/YYYY , again without the @00:00:00, so it can work more with US date/time options?

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rrddefinitons.cfg - how to modify the default step in RRA
by nicolas＠lienard.name 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hi I need to do a temporarily graph with a very low frequency : 5 seconds instead of the regular 300 seconds. 1/ On client side, the external script is simple: [ buda ext]# cat httpd_threads.sh #!/bin/bash THREADS_HTTP=`ps -ef | grep -c [h]ttpd` LINE="data $MACHINE.trends [httpd_threads.rrd] DS:threads:GAUGE:5:U:U $THREADS_HTTP" $BB $BBDISP "$LINE" So, as you can see, the step is 5 in the DS. clientlaunch.cfg has "INTERVAL 5s". 2/ On Xymon server side : rrddefinitions.cfg : # step = 5 seconds [httpd_threads/5] # 576 * 60 * 5 sec = 48 h soit 2 jours sans perte RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:360:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:17280:576 # This one is the default setup. You can change it, if you like. [] # 576 datapoints w/ 5 minute interval = 48 hours @ 5 min avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 6*5 minute averaged = 12 days @ 30 min avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 24*5 minute averaged = 48 days @ 2 hour avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 288*5 minute averaged = 576 days @ 1 day avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:576 3/ RRD created: here the issue, the step is still 300. The minimal_heartbeat is 5. rrdtool dump httpd_threads.rrd <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE rrd SYSTEM "http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/rrdtool.dtd">  <rrd> <version>0003</version> <step>300</step>  <lastupdate>1360264485</lastupdate>  <ds> <name> threads </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat>5</minimal_heartbeat --- snip --- How can i change the step to 5 instead of 300 ? Thanks for your help. Cheers Nico

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