May 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

bbwincmd.exe status+[time] does not seem to work as intended?
by jhillen＠draads.nl 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hi there, I've been trying to setup a test I call 'alive', which sends out a green signal every 1 minute, with a keep-alive time of 2 minutes. This means, that if the server stops sending this signal twice, there will be a purple status. Well, in theory anyway. I have not been able to get this working properly. I use the following: bbwincmd.exe [xymon server] status+2m [hostname] alive green "Last signal received at %time% on %date%" This does send a green status every minute, but when I manually stop the script from being executed, the status becomes grey instead of purple. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Kind regards, Joost Hillen System Administrator Draads bv.

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FibreAlliance/Xymonton
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 23 May '13

23 May '13

On Thu, 23 May 2013, Ulric Eriksson wrote: > On 05/23/2013 12:20 PM, martin.flemming at desy.de wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> >> I've got the FibreAlliance-pluggin successfully running, >> but unfortunately without trend/performanece data >> >> but should be there, isn't it ? > > > I'm the author of that plugin. Sensor status is monitored, but performance > data is not supported. > > Ulric Thanks, Ulric for the info and of course for the plugin :-) .. but it was contemplate ... or does i misunderstood this section ? # Send performance data separately for better control # trends rrdfile hostname data trends() { hostname=`echo "$1"|tr . ,` $BB $DISPLAY "data $hostname.trends [$2.rrd] $3 " } cheers, Martin

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FibreAlliance/Xymonton
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hi ! I've got the FibreAlliance-pluggin successfully running, but unfortunately without trend/performanece data but should be there, isn't it ? ext/fibrealliance.sh # Update the column status # status hostname testname color message status() { hostname=`echo "$1"|tr . ,` $BB $DISPLAY "status $hostname.$2 $3 `date` $4 " } # Send performance data separately for better control # trends rrdfile hostname data trends() { hostname=`echo "$1"|tr . ,` $BB $DISPLAY "data $hostname.trends [$2.rrd] $3 " } Any hint is welcome, how i've got data into the trend-page :-) thanks & cheers Martin

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Disabling modules
by dudi＠kolcore.com 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hello list, Just install Xymon on a Debian test machine. Where is the proper place to decide what tests are performed on every client? I tried: 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 # -apt Didn’t work. apt.conf and aptdiff.conf are set to [disabled] – however, I still have apt labeled purple. What is the right way to remove apt from the main status screen? Regards, Dudi Goldenberg CTO Kolcore Ltd. T: 07-32203220 F: 07-32203221/09-7743796 M: 05-2430-4000

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Suggestion: allow compressed client messages
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hiya We have some servers that get a rapid turn-over of TCP connections, and consequently the [netstat] section of the client report can be huge. When this happens, the ports and procs (because the process list comes after [netstat]) reports are impacted. I'm working on reducing the number of TIME_WAIT sockets, as well as limiting client connections. But it's not unreasonable for some hosts to just operate this way. But the 512kB limit on the client messages also seems reasonable - I don't want to consume too many Xymon resources (bandwidth, disk). So I think it would be really neat to be able to send compressed [client] messages to Xymon. If the xymond_client process detected the gzip header, it could automagically decompress on-the-fly. A 500kB message would typically shrink to around 50kB. Either the whole message could be compressed, or each [section] could contain optionally compressed data. Some risks with this include: 1) extra CPU resources required on client and server, potentially leading to delayed processing - but probably not significantly more than normal 2) a rogue process could send in a gzip bomb - this could be mitigated by wrapping a timer around the call to inflate*() and limit execution time to a few seconds. Thinking more generally, it could allow specifying other filters such as base64-encoding, authentication or encryption. J

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graphs with diff date's data
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 20 May '13

20 May '13

My client script returns the data once in a day in NCV format but that data is of yesterday's date. If I add as it is then xymon graph will show that data as present day's data. How can I tell rrd that the data is last day's data so that it will show with correct date? Thanks, Deepak

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Devmon Template for pfSense
by ajeffco＠gmail.com 16 May '13

16 May '13

Hello, Does anyone have a devmon template for pfSense that they could share? If not I'll work on building one, but didn't want to reinvent the wheel if necessary. Thank you, Al Jeffcoat

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RPM bulid for 4.3.10 client mode
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 16 May '13

16 May '13

I'm trying to make an RPM on RedHat. Specifically for the client. It spends a bunch of time building, then comes up with this: Installation complete. You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts. A sample Apache configuration is in /usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf If you have your Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory, then you must also setup the password-file with the htpasswd command. To start Xymon, as the xymon user run '/usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start' To view the Xymon webpages, go to http://stnxymdev/xymon + mkdir -p /tmp/xymon-root/etc/init.d + cp /home/ptroot/localRPMS/SOURCES/xymon-init.d /tmp/xymon-root/etc/init.d/xymon + cp /home/ptroot/localRPMS/SOURCES/xymon-client.init /tmp/xymon-root/etc/init.d/xymon-client + mkdir -p /tmp/xymon-root/etc/logrotate.d + cp /home/ptroot/localRPMS/SOURCES/xymon.logrotate /tmp/xymon-root/etc/logrotate.d/xymon + mkdir -p /tmp/xymon-root/etc/default + cp /home/ptroot/localRPMS/SOURCES/xymon-client.default /tmp/xymon-root/etc/default/xymon-client + mkdir -p /tmp/xymon-root/usr/bin + cd /tmp/xymon-root/usr/bin + ln -sf ../lib/xymon/server/bin/xymon ../lib/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd . + mkdir -p /tmp/xymon-root/etc/httpd/conf.d + mv /tmp/xymon-root/etc/xymon/xymon-apache.conf /tmp/xymon-root/etc/httpd/conf.d/ mv: cannot stat `/tmp/xymon-root/etc/xymon/xymon-apache.conf': No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.66715 (%install) So I went back and reconfigured for the server, and put the config in place. But it comes back the same. Any ideas what's going on here? Thanks, Paul.

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planned downtime
by bb4＠richter-it.net 16 May '13

16 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I'm running 4.3.10 at the moment on Linux and have a question about the DOWNTIME parameter in hosts.cfg. - From the man page of hosts.cfg: DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime[,day:starttime:endtime] DOWNTIME=columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause[,columns:day:starttime:endtime:cause] This tag can be used to ignore failed checks during specific times of the day - e.g. if you run services that are only monitored e.g. Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, or you always reboot a server every Monday between 5 and 6 pm. What happens is that if a test fails during the specified time, it is reported with status BLUE instead of yellow or red. Thus you can still see when the service was unavailable, but alarms will not be triggered and the downtime is not counted in the availability calculations generated by the Xymon reports. Can someone confirm that this only works for red and yellow alerts but not for the purple ones? Can this behaviour be adjusted somewhere? Except for setting the status lifetime in the scripts of course. Thanks Torsten - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?search=0x899093AC&op=get -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlGUitIACgkQ7DlmxomQk6x3KQCfdilkJjoNaiN65n+T3je5yNFy spcAoKxBFyFbfwi+5k2Ag8jwiaLVL7k7 =HKqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Moved hobbit to new server.
by SteveMadel＠solutionary.com 15 May '13

15 May '13

I recently moved hobbit to a new server, and did not move over the rrd files as ti would take way too long. Is there a way I can set the old server to not monitor anything but just be there to display the old graphs?

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