April 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

xymon mail service
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

You need just regular sendmail working on the host. If You can send e-mail from OS with mail or mails - then it should work for XyMon too (sometimes You may also need to adjust sendmail configuration for masquarading, SMTP gateway etc). Contact Your system administrator or check web for "how to setup sendmail on linux or unix". Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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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

Good day! Now web-page is protected at web-server (Apache) level only. I see we can protect exact directory and may be file/script like: http://host:port/xymon/p_cominder/p_cominder.html so we can allow some users see only some group pages. But this does not protect direct metric links like: http://host:port/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=miminos.cominder.eu&SERVICE=di… if I know other (not my) host name I can get this information event I am not in group of that host. And also at non-green Systems report user see ALL non-green hosts http://host:port/xymon/nongreen.html Question: Does XyMon team have plans to implement groups/pages protection? Or may be somebody know how to protect it with current version? At present moment the only idea I see to have XyMon web UI as backgroud service and have foreground application with it's own authorisation - which will then request background XyMon service/web-page, filter out only what is required and return results to end user based on user's permissions and groups. It will take time, but I can write such application. But, as result we have 2 applications instead of one. May be there is more simple solution? Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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error : can't get eventlog file path
by abdelahad.thaifa＠lotsys.com 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi, I monitor some windows OS with bbwin client, eventlog file who have a space character can't be found, for example "internet explorer". Here is the output error in msgs tab : internet explorer error : can't get eventlog file path 0 events since 15820 days (0.00 events/day) current size is 0 kb (max size is set to 0 kb) retention is set to : Overwrite events as needed - key management service Have you an idea to resolve this problem? Thank you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ce message et les pièces jointes associées sont confidentiels et à l'attention exclusive des destinataires. Si vous avez reçu ce message par erreur, merci d'avertir l'administrateur de la messagerie: postmaster at lotsys.com This email and files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the system manager: postmaster at lotsys.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Include FILE in analysis.cfg
by giovanni.mf＠gmail.com 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi! It is possible to use the directive "include FILE" in analysis.cfg? I'm already using it in hosts.cfg but would be very useful to use in analysis.cfg as well, since its very easy to this file get very big. Maybe some patch available. Thank you

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how to get the alias (diff hostname than the actual) in mail alert?
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

we are using NAME for the odd hostnames on amazon EC2, NAME:server01-prod But when we get the mail alerts, the actual servername comes which is confusing, how can we set the same name of the host in mail which is set in NAME option in hosts.cfg. Thanks, Deepak

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custom script run interval
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

I have a custom script setup on client side, which I want to run on every 24 hours and i don't want to change the default lifetime for other tests. Used below line but still after 30 mins it is going into purple. $BB $BBDISP "status+25h $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` `echo -e "Daily status: \ \n$(cat /tmp/status.log) "`"

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xymon mail service
by minaqva＠hotmail.com 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hello, I installed xymon server and xymon clients and everything works fine. Now I want to get mail notification when something goes wrong. I've added the following lines to my /home/xymon/server/etc/alerts.cfg, but I don't get any mails. HOST=host1 at domain1.com SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory,conn MAIL minaqva at hotmail.com REPEAT=20 RECOVERED In the /var/log/xymon/notifications.log I found : Tue Apr 23 08:17:53 2013 host1 at domain1.com.cpu (173.254.244.156) minaqva at hotmail.com[23] 1366719473 200 Tue Apr 23 08:37:56 2013 host1. at domain1.com.cpu (173.254.244.156) minaqva at hotmail.com[23] 1366720676 200 4449 I've done some researching and I found out that I need to setup mail server on the same machine where is xymon server. I don't know how to do that to work well with xymon, or what mail address should I put in alerts.cfg. I also don't know what mail server is required for xymon. Please help me.

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Xymon 4.3.11 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi Matt, absolutely correct - and an embarassingly silly bug. This patch should cure it - I'll have to do a 4.3.12 release for this, so you may want to wait for that. Thanks for reporting it. Regards, Henrik On 22-04-2013 23:03, Matt Goebel wrote: > > Hopefuly I have done this correctly. Let me know if I need to > do something else. > > This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.10". > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... > Reading symbols from /data/src/xymon/xymon-4.3.11/xymongen/xymongen...done. > [New LWP 1] > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > [New Thread 1 (LWP 1)] > Core was generated by `./xymongen'. > Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. > #0 0xfeecebd4 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 > (gdb) bt > #0 0xfeecebd4 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #1 0xfee67bb8 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #2 0xfee429f8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #3 0x00031cc0 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 > #4 <signal handler called> > #5 0xfee32d50 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #6 0xfee9f4a0 in _ndoprnt () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #7 0xfeea1870 in sprintf () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #8 0x0001b754 in load_state (sumhead=0x62a30 <dispsums>) at loaddata.c:512 > #9 0x00016228 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffbffccc) at xymongen.c:592 > > Thanks, > Matt > > And now a bit of polka music by "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_St=F8rner?=" >> >> Hi Matt, >> >> if you could provide me with a trace of where it dumps core, then I >> would very much like to track it down. >> >> You need the 'gdb' tool to get the stacktrace, see >> http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/known-issues.html#bugreport >> >> >> Thanks, >> Henrik >> >> >> On 22-04-2013 17:38, Matt Goebel wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Not sure where I should post this, but I upgraded to 4.3.11 today >>> on Solaris 10 sparc and everything works great except for xymongen >>> which coredumps. I ended up using the 4.3.10 binary for xymongen >>> to get everything working again. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Matt >>> >>> And now a bit of polka music by "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_St=F8rner?=" >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have just released version 4.3.11 of Xymon. This release fixes a >>>> critical bug, which has caused crashes and other unwanted behaviour of >>>> the xymond daemon. >>>> >>>> Upgrading your Xymon server is recommended. >>>> >>>> >>>> Full list of changes: >>>> >>>> * Fix wrong file permissions when installing >>>> * Linux client: Fix handling of root filesystem when mounted on >>>> "/dev/root" >>>> * trends webpage: Fix case where hostname disappears after zoom. >>>> * FreeBSD client: Memory patch for FreeBSD 8.0+ >>>> * xymond_alert: Fix problem with UNMATCHED rules triggering when >>>> there are actual recipients, but their alerts are suppressed due >>>> to a REPEAT setting not having expired. >>>> * xymond_rrd: Dont crash if called with an empty status/data message >>>> * xymond_channel: Report cause when channel-child exits/crashes >>>> * xymongen: Geneate an overview page with only reds (like non-green) >>>> * xymongen: Optionally define env. variable BOARDFILTER to select >>>> hosts/tests included in the generated pages >>>> * links: Add pdf, docx and odt as known document formats >>>> * Fix potential crashes after an alert cookie expired >>>> * Fix potential crash after deleting/renaming a host >>>> * Speedup loading of the hosts.cfg file, noticeable with very >>>> large hosts.cfg files (100.000+ hosts) >>>> >>>> >>>> Currently only the source archive is available. Binary packages will >>>> show up in a couple of days. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Henrik >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Xymon mailing list >>>> Xymon at xymon.com >>>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >>>> >>> >>> >> > >

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New monitoring script on Xmonton - db_cpu.ksh
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi all Made some updates to the db_cpu script. It can now cope with the situation where there are no databases running. Previously, it would simply exit if it found nothing. Now it reports it, and can trigger an alert if you configure it so. Regards Vernon On 7 March 2013 08:50, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I have updated this script to fix Andrey's reported bug. > I have also added an option to use sar for calculating %Idle, after Nick > reminded me that top is not part of a standard install. > > Regards > Vernon > > > On 2 March 2013 20:08, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote: > >> A good catch, and something I didn't consider. >> All our databases instances have very different names, so the scenario >> you describe just never occurred to me. >> I will have a look at fixing this one when I get back to the office on >> Tuesday. (Monday is a public holiday here) >> However, if anybody wants to suggest a fix, or even update the code, go >> for it. >> >> Regards >> Vernon >> >> >> >> On 2 March 2013 17:14, Andrey Chervonets <a.chervonets at cominder.eu>wrote: >> >>> Good news. >>> >>> Had reviewed the script. There may be one problem in that lines: >>> -- >>> for PROC in $(ps -efa | grep $DB | awk '{ print $2 }') >>> -- >>> You do just grep, but imagine there may be instances like: >>> MYDB >>> MYDB1 >>> MYDB12 >>> or NOMYDB >>> So it will count MYDB numbers for MYDB1, MYDB12 and NOMYDB too >>> >>> We should make grepping more intelligent, because oracle processes may >>> be listed like: >>> ora_j000_MYDB >>> oracleMYDB (LOCAL=NO) >>> ora_ckpt_MYDB >>> and so on >>> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Andrey Chervonets >>> ---------------------- >>> CoMinder Ltd. >>> http://www.cominder.eu/ >>> Mobile: +371 26517848 >>> Fax: +371 66066346 >>> >>> >>> >>> On 01.03.2013 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: >>> >>>> Message: 10 >>>> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:40:58 +0800 >>>> From: Vernon Everett<everett.vernon at gmail.**com<everett.vernon at gmail.com> >>>> > >>>> To: Xymon mailinglist<xymon at xymon.com> >>>> Subject: [Xymon] New monitoring script on Xmonton >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <CAGo4kcYUaYJ8TSjrs4xf7pNzptsB**3vk3B5omLAae_M-2jtWokg at mail.** >>>> gmail.com<CAGo4kcYUaYJ8TSjrs4xf7pNzptsB3vk3B5omLAae_M-2jtWokg at mail.gmail.com> >>>> > >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>>> >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> I have just put something together to monitor Oracle database CPU usage. >>>> http://www.xymonton.org/**monitors:db_cpu.ksh<http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:db_cpu.ksh> >>>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Xymon mailing list >>> Xymon at xymon.com >>> http://lists.xymon.com/**mailman/listinfo/xymon<http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" >> - General George Patton >> > > > > -- > "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" > - General George Patton > -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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Xymon Log Retrieval
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Is there a doco anywhere explaining the log file retrieval mechanism? I want to use Xymon to fetch /etc/passwd files so that I can check for unwanted/unnoticed changes. Nick Dublin

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