May 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Folder Size
by ray.reuter＠gmail.com 14 May '13

14 May '13

Does anyone know of a way to monitor the size of a folder? I am not a programmer so I figured I would reach out to you and see who might have done this already or knows of someone who has been successful.

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Logfile syntax client-local.cfg
by greg.shea＠emc.com 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hi folks, Need some help with adding this logfile to client-local.cfg. I have a logfile like " /opt/NetQoS/logs/nqnapacapd_20130513.log" I know I can create that date via `date '+%Y%m%d'`, but I've tried a number of ways to add this, but none were successful. Any help with the correct syntax would be appreciated. Greg Shea EMC Corporation

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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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Receiving partial (ignored) logfiles
by giovanni.mf＠gmail.com 12 May '13

12 May '13

Hi, I'm using Xymon 4.3.11 and im getting partial ignored messages in client-local.cfg Ex: *@ client-local.cfg* *log:/var/log/mail.err:10240 * *ignore dovecot:* After updating xymon-client's definition, the following error still appears: *&red Critical entries in /var/log/mail.err <http://sentinela.redix.com.br/cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=ns025.fiescnet.com.br…> &red xxx at xxxx.com) Error: sieve: relative script path, but empty home dir: ~/.dovecot.siev* This is the original message: *Apr 11 21:46:25 ns025 dovecot: lda(xxx at xxx.com) Error: sieve: relative script path, but empty home dir: ~/.dovecot.sieve* Xymon seems to break the line or something, does anyone know if its a bug or just use the correct regular-expression? Thank you,

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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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Disk Alerts aren't coming or changing web page colors
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hi folks. For some reason I'm not getting disk full alerts on some servers we have and their webpage screens aren't changing from green to yellow/red. It was over 95% on the /Volumes/Arena1-EC-D5 disk but not screens changed color and we didn't see an email. I'm hoping someone can send me some direction on what I should check to see what may be wrong. Here's the web page disk view for the server: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc3 103G 9.3G 88G 10% / /dev/sdc1 504M 90M 389M 19% /boot /dev/mapper/mpathip1 21T 18T 2.6T 88% /Volumes/Arena1-EC-D5 /dev/mapper/mpathjp1 21T 16T 4.6T 78% /Volumes/Arena1-EC-D6 Here's a snip from hosts.cfg: subparent services backupservers Backup Servers # group-except bbd <font size="+1">Backup Servers</font> 10.1.2.4 CommVault-Media-Agent-MEDAGT02 #CLIENT:MedAgt02.domain.com OS:unix-prod DESC:"SERVER:Comvault Media Agent" Here's a snip from analysis.cfg: HOST=CommVault-Media-Agent-MEDAGT02 GROUP=SRMBACKUPS PROC cvd PROC cvfwd PROC cvlaunchd PROC EvMgrC PROC CvMountd DISK /Volumes/Arena1-EC-D5 90 95 DISK /Volumes/Arena1-EC-D6 90 95 DISK /boot 92 95 DISK 85 90 And here's alerts.cfg: PAGE=services/backupservers SERVICE=disk script /usr/lib64/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl michael.gentile at schawk.com FORMAT=TEXT RECOVERED DURATION>15m REPEAT=2h # script /usr/lib64/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl don.kuhlman at schawk.com FORMAT=TEXT DURATION>30m REPEAT=24h Thanks much! Don K

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BBWincmd
by sjpostsr＠gmail.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

How to get client data to Xymon server using BBwincmd? I have BBWin installed on a Test PC and it reports to my Xymon server just fine. When I view the client on the Xymon Server, I have Client Data available at the bottom of my tests. This is same contents as the msg.<hostname>.txt in the tmp directory However, I have another system that I am testing on at this time, I can't install BBWin on, but I have a series of vbscripts that I am running that gather the same data and write out a msg.<hostname>.txt for that system. >From what I have read and understand, I can use the BBwincmd.exe to upload that msg.<hostname>.txt to the Xymon server. For whatever reason, I can not get the client data to show up for this other system. I have compared the two msg.<hostname>.txt from each PC and the are basically identical in format. I have looked at BBWinCmd /? and I believe that BBWinCmd <bbdisplay>:<port> uploadmessage <filename> is the correct option, but the Xymon server never shows Client Data for the second host. If I have the scripts, run BBWinCmd status <hostname> <test> <status> <reportdata>, all the information displays on the Xymon server just fine. Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Thanks

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BBWincmd
by s.watkins＠nhm.ac.uk 10 May '13

10 May '13

> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:31:17 -0500 > From: Scott Post <sjpostsr at gmail.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] BBWincmd > Message-ID: > <CAFV=h=fPcRXGQQ7TQgiq3kDumDOYO__JEYcMV9TvsuY9qg0VVA > @mail.gmail.com> > However, I have another system that I am testing on at this time, I can't > install BBWin on, but I have a series of vbscripts that I am running that gather > the same data and write out a msg.<hostname>.txt for that system. Hiya Scott, So you can install BBWin on some systems but not on this one? I'm going to hazard a guess that the one you can't install on is something like a DMZ system or a production system. If that is the case, then it may be possible that there are some network restrictions/firewall rules between that system and your Xymon server. You can test that by firing up a CMD window/DOS shell on the "to-be-a-client" system and typing "telnet ip.addr portno" where "ip.addr" is the IP address of your Xymon server and "portno" is the port number that your Xymon server is using. It'll either the screen will go blank (this is good, shows you can connect) or it'll fail. If it rejects, then either contact your network gurus and request a firewall tunnel for the right port number, or arrange to setup a Xymon proxy on a system on the firewall that can relay from one side to another. Setting up a Xymon proxy is really easy, but check that it's allowable with your local network dudes as they may see it as a "security issue". > Can someone please help point me in the right direction? Yeah, drink lots of water, get lots of sleep and use sunscreen! :) Good luck with getting it set up. It's nearly always worth the hassle. Regards, Steff Watkins ----- Steff Watkins Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London,SW75BD Systems programmer Email: s.watkins at nhm.ac.uk Systems Team Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 6000 opt 2 ======== "Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - HHGTTG

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display multiple line status
by p3yeung＠gmail.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

I am using xymon 4.3.11. Using the example shown in "man xymon", > $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK" I can see the status displayed as a single line in the xymon server. Thu May 9 16:52:07 PDT 2013 Web OK I need to display multiple lines to the xymon server, with the data in the command line rather than a file. I tried, > $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK\n second line" But the status is displayed in one line instead of two in the xymon server Thu May 9 16:52:47 PDT 2013 Web OK\n second line What escape character should I use to specify new line? Thanks P Yeung

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