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how integrate xymonpdf into new xymon-menue
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hi ! I need an hint how to integrate the xymonpdf http://www.trantor.org/xymonton/doku.php/reports:xymonpdf or other entries into the new xymon-menue .. ... > * Edit '$BBHOME/server/www/menu/menu_items.js' and add two lines in > 'Reports' section like those ones (I put my scripts into $BBHOME/server/www/pdf) : > > ['Analysis PDF', '/xymon/pdf/analysis.php'], > ['Reports PDF', '/xymon/pdf/pdf.php'] didn't work ... because the menue_items.js is missing :-) i've added an entry in xymonmenu.cfg <a class="inner" href="$BBSERVERWWWURL/pdf/pdf.php">PDF Report</a> but without success :-( thanks & cheers Martin

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Problem with NOTICE rule in alerts.cfg
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 24 May '13

24 May '13

I noticed that the xymon_alerts docs show there is a NOTICE keyword which is described as: NOTICE Rule matches if the message is a "notify" message. This type of message is sent when a host or test is disabled or enabled. I wanted to be alerted via a custom SMS script of any test as soon as it is enabled or disabled. So in the alerts.cfg file I had initially set up a line that I thought would trigger whenever a test was enabled or disabled like so: HOST=* SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS NOTICE As I was testing enabling and disabling, it appeared that I had gotten the syntax correct and I was off to the next thing. However, when a normal test went yellow, I received two SMS alerts for it. My logs shows that the CFID environment variable was showing that my new alert listed above was triggering the SMS as well as the PAGE=%firewalls/* alert that was supposed to trigger it. I then tried NOTICE SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS as well as NOTICE=* SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS and finally HOST=* NOTICE SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS But it seems that ANY status change including normal green, yellow, red, purple triggers this alert as well as any other correctly matching alert. I did some additional testing with all three above configurations using: xymond_alert --test fw.example.com testname And each of them showed (in order): *** Match with 'HOST=*' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** *** Match with 'NOTICE=*' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** *** Match with 'HOST=* NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** Would love to get this working correctly and appreciate any help! -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/

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Problem with custom graphs after a re-install
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 14 May '13

14 May '13

A recent update of several libraries on a client's Xymon server required that Xymon be re-compiled and re-installed. Ever since that re-install, our custom graphs have stopped functioning and I see the following errors in rrd-status.log: 2013-02-08 14:17:18 RRD error updating /usr/local/xymon/data/rrd/servername.example.org/kitchen,LeftRefigerator.rrd from 10.1.0.10: tmplt contains more DS definitions than RRD Finding very little in my searches for: "tmplt contains more DS definitions than RRD" No configuration files have been changed, the test data and alerts for the custom test still work fine, so I am at a loss of where to look to solve this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Xymon version on this server is 4.3.0-0.beta2 -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC

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Xymon alerting when it's been told not to
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi all, I have the following in my alerts.cfg: PAGE=IV HOST=%ivma[12].*.osspriv.colt.net EXSERVICE=files,msgs,ports,procs,cpu SCRIPT /opt/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl martin.ward at colt.net DURATION>1h COLOR=red RECOVERED STOP If I run it through xymond_alert -dump-config it comes up as: 168 PAGE=Infovista 169 HOST=%ivma[12].*.osspriv.colt.net EXSERVICE=files,msgs,ports,procs,cpu SCRIPT /opt/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl martin.ward at colt.net FORMAT=SCRIPT REPEAT=30 COLOR=red DURATION>60 RECOVERED STOP Yet I am still getting CPU alerts from ivma2.lon.osspriv.colt.net Can anyone suggest what the problem might be? |\/|artin [Colt Disclaimer] This email is from an entity of the Colt group of companies. Colt Group S.A., K2 Building, Forte 1, 2a rue Albert Borschette, L-1246 Luxembourg, R.C.S. B115679. Corporate and contact information for our entities can be found at http://colt.net/uk/en/Colt-Group-of-Companies/index.htm. Internet communications are not secure and Colt does not accept responsibility for the accurate transmission of this message. Content of this email or its attachments is not legally or contractually binding unless expressly previously agreed in writing by Colt

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Duplicate email Recipients in Info page
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

Does that mean it will stay green for a half hour before going red if the service has stopped ? Thanks! On 6/6/12 12:35 PM, "Betsy Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com> >wrote: > >> I've been working on the email issue and now seem to have another >>issue. I >> shut down the bbwin service on two windows computers that xymon was >> monitoring and it's not alerting that the service and/or process has >> stopped. > >Default purple interval , aka "status lifetime" is half an hour... I >think it's hardcoded on the server side. > >Individual alerts can also set their lifetimes. We do that with some >of our custom tests, run them every half hour with a lifetime of a >couple of hours. >

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reducing size of /dev/shm/msg.<hostname> file
by a_s_y＠sama.ru 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hello. Can I disable collecting some data in /dev/shm/msg.<hostname> ? Kernel routing table for examle... That would be very useful on host with Quagga/BGP: # ls -l /dev/shm/msg* -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon xymon 27890381 Mar 5 17:01 /dev/shm/msg.XXX.txt -- Regards, Sergey

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html charset setting
by a_s_y＠sama.ru 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hello. I found information about HTMLCONTENTTYPE in xymonserver.cfg, but I can't see content-type definition in html header: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Sat, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT"> <TITLE>red : Xymon - Status @ Sun Mar 31 04:58:57 2013</TITLE> What I need to check ? -- Regards, Sergey

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xymon e-mail alerts show up as attachments instead of e-mail
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Not a wild thought. Yes you are correct. I was getting ready to post my findings. We recently moved our xymon server from fedora core 3 to SLES 11. Fedora used mail and SLES 11 mail is linked to mailx. The windows clients are sending carriage returns in the status ^M (carriage return). The problem occured on SuSe server but not on redhat server, because mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by *newline*(^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use *carriage return* (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as binary data. Hence the reason we get notifications that show up as attachments. Also explains why AIX servers don't have the problem and the windows servers do. Thanks On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com>wrote: > Not a wild thought. Yes you are correct. I was getting ready to post my > findings. We recently moved our xymon server from fedora core 3 to SLES > 11. Fedora used mail and SLES 11 mail is linked to mailx. The windows > clients are sending carriage returns in the status ^M (carriage return). > The problem occured on SuSe server but not on redhat server, because mailx > expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by *newline*(^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use > *carriage return* (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as > binary data. Hence the reason we get notifications that show up as > attachments. Also explains why AIX servers don't have the problem and the > windows servers do. > > Thanks > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Wild thought - could the Windows reports be turned into attachments in >> your email server and/or client because the line-ends are <cr><lf> instead >> of just <lf> ?? >> >> Ralph Mitchell >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Good day, >>> >>> We are running xymon 4.2.3 and are experiencing some particularities with >>> e-mail alerts showing up as attachments like att00001.bin instead of the >>> normal message. The problem is sporadic. For example windows server throws >>> CPU alter. E-mail sent shows up as an attachment in the recipient e-mail. >>> AIX servers throw cpu alerts don't experience this problem. Client >>> shouldn't matter. Any tips for troubleshooting this issue? If we open the >>> attachment in the editor it shows what should be in the body of the email. >>> Hobbit server is running postfix. >>> >>> red Mon Sep 19 15:07:50 EDT 2011 [indyctx8.companyname.com] up: 10:12, 1 >>> users, 224 procs, load=100%, PhysicalMem: 3072MB(74%) >>> >>> >>> >>> Memory Statistics >>> Total Physical memory: 3220598784 bytes (3.00GB) >>> Available Physical memory: 850558976 bytes (812.00MB) >>> Total PageFile size: 4294967295 bytes (4.00GB) >>> Available PageFile size: 4294967295 bytes (4.00GB) >>> Total Virtual memory size: 2147352576 bytes (2.00GB) >>> Available Virtual memory size: 2106589184 bytes (1.96GB) >>> >>> Most active processes >>> 96.23% oexplore (0x26a4 [9892]) >>> 00.60% svchost (0xbf0 [3056]) >>> 00.32% lsass (0x23c [572]) >>> 00.26% oexplore (0x29c8 [10696]) >>> 00.25% oexplore (0x255c [9564]) >>> 00.21% Smc (0x3c4 [964]) >>> 00.20% SmcGui (0x3230 [12848]) >>> 00.19% oexplore (0x20dc [8412]) >>> 00.16% oexplore (0x14d0 [5328]) >>> 00.13% XTE (0xfc4 [4036]) >>> >>> See >>> http://hobbit.companyname.docm/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=indyctx8&SERVI… >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xymon mailing list >>> Xymon at xymon.com >>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >>> >>> >> >

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BBWin 0.13 memory usage
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi all, I wondered if anyone had noticed anything unusual in the memory usage of BBWin 0.13. We've a number of servers running this version of the client and also a number running BBWin 0.12. All the 0.12 clients are using less than 10Mb of memory, however some of the 0.13 clients are using a lot more (a large number using between 250Mb and 400Mb and even one that was using over 1Gb). Has anyone seen this behaviour on their systems? Regards, Neil Simmonds Senior Operations Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority -------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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list all purples
by bakgat8＠hotmail.com 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

I use to know how to list all purples with bbgen. I did try and google but had no success. Is there a way to list all purples in xymon?

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