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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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"Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

All - For some reason many (all?) hosts are currently impervious to being disabled from the CLI if I use the "*" wildcard for the TESTNAME value. According to the xymon man page, I should be able "...To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME." All tests for this host should go "blue" and stay in this state indefinitely (right?). However, I see this (timestamps in the prompts): 16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.* -1 " 16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" trends|green|0 info|green|0 memory|blue|-1 files|blue|-1 msgs|blue|-1 ports|blue|-1 procs|blue|-1 disk|blue|-1 cpu|blue|-1 prtdiag|blue|-1 nfs|blue|-1 raid|blue|-1 tm|blue|-1 conn|blue|-1 sar|blue|-1 iostat2|blue|-1 then, about one minute later, I see my first "rebel" test ("conn") flip itself back to non-disabled: 16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep -v blue trends|green|0 info|green|0 conn|green|0 It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their "blue" status and return to green. On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do the job more permanently: 17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.msgs -1 " 17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.files -1 " 17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.ports -1 " Help? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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HTTP / FTP Service Checks - Red Alerts
by denicoloj＠gmail.com 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Xymon Users, I have two web servers that I am checking. Hostname-A is an off-site server hosted by a third party therefore I only perform basic network tests such as conn, http, ftp. The other(Hostname-B) is hosted on my local network and I have a client installed to check hardware as well as network tests. I set up a basic Alert for both which emails me when the http, ftp, conn, or other service becomes critical(red). I have not modified the tests themselves, they become yellow/red based on default values. Problem: I get daily email alerts stating the http service is critical or NOT OK, mostly on Hostname-A with the http and ftp service. Conn is never red. Hostname-B receives the red status as well but only http - DNS error. Whenever I see this alert and I check the service.. its always green and showing no problems. Hostname-A receives red status from many different errors including ... 'Server Timeout', 'DNS Error', and 'Connected - but Empty response (code0)'. FTP gets 'Unexepcted Service Response' from time to time much the red status is appearing much much more frequent on the http service. I do not have remote access since it is hosted on a shared server by a third party. Where can I make some adjustments on my xymon server to somehow stop these faulty red statuses. Can I configure the test to check less often, do you think the ping / service checks are being blocked by the third party due to the frequency? Perhaps I can change it to check every 10 minutes instead of 5 (which I believe is the default). Not sure what the problem is since conn is NEVER red so they cant be blocking ping attempts, not sure why the http is returning critical when its always green when I check. Appreciate any help I can get. * * *Joseph De Nicolo* *Secure Database Administrator * *Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>* *Northeastern University*

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top ten list of servers wrt cpu load
by sholmes42＠mac.com 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Before I go inventing something I want to find out if anyone already has done this. We have a lot of virtual linux hosts (VMs on an ESX farm). We monitor all of them with Xymon. When there is a widespread problem (as there was this past weekend) the virtualization team would like to have a report on which VMs top the list of, for example, cpu load from Xymon historical data. (Yes there are ESX based tools, but they have not spent the $$ to put them on all of the servers.) I pointed the team manager to the metrics report in Xymon and he was impressed, but doesn't want to have to look at a graph containing plots for a few hundred hosts to find the top 10. So, I'm looking it writing a script to mine the rrd or history data from the Xymon server to produce the list he wants. He is also interested in the top disk I/O numbers, too, but I'm focusing on load average for now. He says he just wants an average for each host over the 48 hours of the weekend, which is when we usually see problems. Has anyone done this or something like it? I don't see anything in Xymon already built in to get close so I was looking at rrdtool fetch. However, this is cumbersome and, frankly I'm not understanding the data I'm getting back (for example 1.22749483e+03 seems to be 12.27... when I compare it to the graphs, so the e+03 seems to really mean *10^1, right?) But I ramble. Thanks for any help. Steve Holmes Purdue

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Where is text for col header labels?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Sorry - this is probably in a man page I didn't find... Where do we find / set the HTML text for the column (i.e. test name) headers? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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svcs on win7
by utama＠intnet.mu 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hi Xymon Dev team, i installed Xymon 4-3.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. its working pretty good. its the first time i installed it and am happy with it. Thanks guys for this jpb. Am currently getting an issue on my clients. all my clients are on windows. while using service monitoring (SVCS), i see that its working on Windows server 2003. however for Windows 7 clients, its not monitoring the services correctly. it shows only green though the services are going down. can you please advise how to trouleshoot this issue? regards, Shikshah

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Page-title optional or not? hosts.cfg
by bakgat8＠hotmail.com 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

the man page says page NAME [Page-title] This defines a page at the level below the entry page. All hosts following the "page" directive appear on this page, until a new "page", "subpage" or "subparent" line is found. I interpreted [Page-title] to be an optional field. However if I do not have it - the info page goes amuck. Since fortunately everything seems to work fine ... just the unreadable info page, not a huge deal, but it was a little tricky to figure out.

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Documenting servers, processes and stuff inside Xymon
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi all, Is there any way to provide a simple list of "how-to"s for a given server within Xymon? For instance I have a process that over time eats up memory so needs to be restarted. It would be useful to have a piece of text saying something like "If memory gets full over time then restart this process" in the Memory page for this server. I realise I could have an auto-restart script but I am chary of those because of the potential for it continually restarting a daemon due to memory usage if, for some reason, that daemon is not the actual cause of the memory problem. I know about the DESCR: and COMMENTS: options in hosts.cfg but they for short amounts of text on a page with lots of hosts. Is there anywhere that I can link or show more information, hints and tips, contact information and such like information for each server? |\/|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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