April 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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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xymon as a drop-in bb replacement
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

We ran BB 1.9 for years, then switched to BBPE about three years ago. Earlier this month, Quest announced end-of-life for BBPE so we're looking at our options. We have fewer than 500 clients reporting into Big Brother. But swapping them out for something else is going to painful and take time. If a xymon server will happily accept bb-client messages, then I could stand up a xymon server and replace clients through attrition. Has anyone else recently gone down this path? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska

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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

Hi folks. Still working on cleaning up my xymon infrastructure. I believe I'm getting a better handle on things with my analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg settings now. I made some more changes to the analysis and alerts files to add other groups for emails. So now, I think I've duplicated a notify group in one or the other places. When I click on a certain host's info link on an application page, I'm seeing the same target recipient for things like conn, cpu, disk, memory, etc. What's the best way to troubleshoot my rules/settings to figure out where I'm setting the duplicated target recipients at? PS – I can send along the alerts and analysis files if that helps. Thanks much! Don K

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Rare shape in graphs.
by ragonlan＠gmail.com 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi all, Recently I've included 2 new host to monitor in xymon but from time to time response times are quite high (2 o 3 seconds). Shape in graphs draws ups and downs in a very recognisable manner: [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] Testing the host (a windows server) with telnet for hours (Perl script) doesn't shows this responses times (always fewer than 1 second). Does anyone knows where could be the problem? Is it a xymon server problem or it may be in the remote server? I think it is in the remote server but I couldn't demonstrate it and than curious graphs doesn't help clarifying it.

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graph coming into DERIVE formant instead of GAUGE
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 02 May '13

02 May '13

I see $rrdtool dump IdAp.rrd|grep type is DERIVE and so no graphs is coming on browser. Below is the file configurations. client send the data in NCV format, eg. ApacheIdleThread: 50 xymonserver.cfg: - if_load=devmon,*IdAp=ncv*,temp=devmon,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond" NCV_IdAp="ApacheIdleThread:GAUGE" graphs.cfg: - [IdAp] TITLE Apache Idlethrd info YAXIS Idlethreads DEF:ApacheIdleThread=IdAp.rrd:ApacheIdleThread:AVERAGE LINE1:ApacheIdleThread#44CCAA:ApacheIdleThread GPRINT:ApacheIdleThread:LAST:Idle Threads \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:ApacheIdleThread:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:ApacheIdleThread:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:ApacheIdleThread:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

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CONN status clear on only one host
by minaqva＠hotmail.com 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hello, I am using xymon server on Centos 5.7 machine for monitoring 15 Centos machines. On every machine there is xymon client installed. Everything works fine, except on one machine host1 at domain1.com (Centos 6.0) conn status shows white face, but the message is Service conn on host1 at domain1.com is OK (up). Also, if I try fping host1 at domain1.com, from the machine with xymon server, I get: host1 at domain1.com is alive. All other services (cpu,memory,procs..) shows green face. Thank you for your help Milana

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Web UI security - how to implement access filter per group/host
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

I am not very familiar with CGI, but knowing that it is possible we can do it. Thanks a lot! Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/ xymon-bounces at xymon.com wrote on 29.04.2013 13:00:01: > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Web UI security - how to implement access filter per group/host > ... > > The easiest way to modify the current system is to add some security > checks in the CGI shell-script wrappers, so that they check access based on > the REMOTE_USER environment-variable that Apache provides when you require > authentication for a web user... > > > Regards, > Henrik

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