April 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Monitoring Multiple Cores
by g.fer.ordas＠unicyber.co.uk 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi This a topic I am complete sure was been already discussed, but I have been for hours around the web and I cannot find what I am looking for.... I am trying to monitor every cpu within the server rather than the load average, and I wonder if there anything already done rather than re-inventing the wheel again? maybe something which is already done in relation to monitoring multiple cores? Many thanks to all of you.

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IGNORE for DISK and INODE in analysis.cfg
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Quick question: does anyone know of an intelligent way to ignore both the disk and inode tests for a filesystem without adding two lines to analysis.cfg every time? I've noticed that a lot of the FS I excluded from the disk test have now returned (with all of the associated RRD cruft) in the form of the inode test now that I'm running 4.3.10. Thanks in advance for the tips. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFswUwACgkQmb+gadEcsb52dwCfeFSq7JAh2T24jdY+wN+zIS8t 1wwAoLyGrE0FvOzvvUcNAPdEkKL8oF1b =bG8V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mails in html format
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Thanks Carl, there are lots of other scripts as well on this site. Will give a try. BTW ... do you have any other sites which has lots of scripts/ plugin kind of things for xymon? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Carl Inglis <Carl.Inglis at rakon.com> wrote: > Hi Deepak,**** > > ** ** > > If you search the archives, there was discussion about a perl script that > sent HTML formatted emails. It’s available here: > http://www.xymonton.org/alerts:html_mail1.2**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > ** ** > > Carl**** > > ** ** > > Carl Inglis * > Systems Administrator* > > *Rakon UK Limited* > Dowsett House, Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3RS, United Kingdom > Tel: +44 (0)1522 812630 | Fax: +44 (0) 1522 812664 | Mob: +44 (0) 7786 > 552915 > Carl.Inglis at rakon.com | www.rakon.com > > [image: The Queens Awards for Enterprise 2012] > > [image: Rakon Logo] > > This message together with any attachments contains confidential > information and may be > subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you may not > distribute it in any > way, you must notify the sender immediately and delete any copies of the > message along > with its attachments. > > *Rakon UK Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales. > Registered Office: Dowsett House, Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3RS > Company Registration Number: 5128090. > > Please be aware that Rakon UK Limited may monitor email traffic data > including the date, time, subject line, sender and recipients for the > purposes of security and usage monitoring. Automated monitoring > systems may also be applied to ascertain whether incoming/outgoing > emails are likely to contain viruses, other destructive devices or > inappropriate content. * > > *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On > Behalf Of *deepak deore > *Sent:* 15 April 2013 19:03 > *To:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* [Xymon] mails in html format**** > > ** ** > > Can we send xymon alerts in html format? which will give better look to > the mails.**** >

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mails in html format
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Can we send xymon alerts in html format? which will give better look to the mails.

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Xymond_history
by majones＠mnsi.net 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

On Friday after over 800 days of operation our xymon server is reporting purple status for xymond_history. It says program crashed fatal sig caught. Yet the process is running and nothing shows in the log as a problem. Any ideas where I should start looking? Mark Jones

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la graph autoscale question
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Thanks, Chris ! works like a charm :-) martin On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Chris.Morris at rwe.com wrote: > Edit ~/server/etc/graphs.cfg and in the [la] section add the "-l 0" > statement to have the graphs start at zero. > > -----Original Message----- > From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf > Of Martin Flemming > Sent: 15 April 2013 10:17 > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] la graph autoscale question > > > Hi ! > > I've got a little stupid rrd-graphic-question... > > How can i change the start of y-axis > with min value to be at 0 and not be autoscaled ? > > thanks & cheers > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > **************************************************************************** > The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither the RWE Group of Companies nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). > > ***************************************************************************** > >

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la graph autoscale question
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hi ! I've got a little stupid rrd-graphic-question... How can i change the start of y-axis with min value to be at 0 and not be autoscaled ? thanks & cheers Martin

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Monitoring that iptables and SELinux are running / enabled
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Is there any code out there to monitor that (a) iptables is running (not just set to everything allowed) (b) SELinux is enabled I've looked on Xymonton, the Xymon archives and Google but not found anything. Obviously, checking that these are running is anywhere between nice and critical if one either has a server exposed to the Internet or need to pass regulatory security checks. The way I would ideally have liked these to work (but beggers can't be choosers!) is that the iptables check would work a bit like the port checks in analysis.cfg so one can check if particular rules are enabled (and the default policy on chains), and SELinux would also be monitored and configured in analysis.cfg with options to go yellow or red depending on the state of the enabled/disabled, permissive/enforcing and targeted/strict toggles. This then allows for sending alerts to managers if someone disables security measures on a server. Kind regards, SebA

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backticks not working in client-local.cfg
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Xymon version: - Xymon 4.3.10 OS: - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS **I am using the below entry but it is not converting the date command to the value. [server-name] log:/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log:10240 ignore INFO trigger SEVERE I tried many things but no luck, on the log page I see the date command as it is instead of the actual date value.: - log:`/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log`:10240 log:$(/mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log):10240 log:$(echo /mnt/logs/access.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log):10240 log:/mnt/logs/access.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log:10240

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FILE in analysis.cfg
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

So I'm creating a log file that will only get updated about every 3 months. But I want to watch that and make sure that it does get updated every three months. That part is easy. But, the file is only for our Linux machines, not our Solaris machines. Is there a way to tell analysis that I want to look for this file, but if it doesn't exist, that's ok? Or is there something like CLASS but for machine type? Oh, and I'm also monitoring a handful of linux machines for others outside my group, that won't have this file. And if I just put in the FILE line, it's going to tag those machines with file doesn't exist, if I put it in HOST=*. And I don't really want to put it in, individually, for the 90+ machines I do have, and the ones I'm adding weekly. The vast majority of my machines do have a 3 character start, so I guess I could use those... Any better ideas? While, I'm at it, is mtime> only in seconds or can I put a 'd' modifier for days on the end of it?

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