May 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

cgierror.log lists error
by rectifier＠gmail.com 14 May '13

14 May '13

Dear all, I have this error appearing repeatedly in my cgierror.log file: 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused 2013-05-13 15:16:59 hobbitgraph Sendto failed: Connection refused And I have millions of lines with this. Fairly new to Xymon, probably permission issue - anyone able to help? I have tried to search the web (ans this mailing list + archives) and read the man pages where possible. thanks SD

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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

Does that mean it will stay green for a half hour before going red if the service has stopped ? Thanks! On 6/6/12 12:35 PM, "Betsy Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com> >wrote: > >> I've been working on the email issue and now seem to have another >>issue. I >> shut down the bbwin service on two windows computers that xymon was >> monitoring and it's not alerting that the service and/or process has >> stopped. > >Default purple interval , aka "status lifetime" is half an hour... I >think it's hardcoded on the server side. > >Individual alerts can also set their lifetimes. We do that with some >of our custom tests, run them every half hour with a lifetime of a >couple of hours. >

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Anyone know of a MySQL Server monitoring script?
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

This one. I just checked the header of bb-mysql.pl http://xymonton.org/monitors:bb-mysql Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com>wrote: > Thanks guys. Josh, do you know the name of it on deadcat? I couldn't > seem to find that one yesterday. > > Thanks again! > > Don > > From: Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> > Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:26:13 -0400 > To: Don Kuhlman <don.kuhlman at schawk.com> > Cc: Xymon Email List <xymon at xymon.com> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Anyone know of a MySQL Server monitoring script? > > I use one from deadcat, I think. > > Mine looks like this: > > Fri May 10 12:18:04 2013 MySQL Server OK > > threads: 1 > questions: 9005502 > slow queries: 0 > opens: 2011607 > flush tables: 1 > open tables: 64 > queries per second avg: 0.072 > maxcon: 100 > > Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution > Uptime: 1442 days 1 hour 10 min 43 sec > > Server reports timestamp of 2013-05-10 12:18:04 > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com>wrote: > >> Hi all. Hoping to see if anyone has seen a more recent custom script or >> has a suggestion on how to best monitor a MySQL server from Xymon. >> >> I found a perl script called bb-SQLServer.pl which looks like it will test >> a sql server from xymon. >> >> It's a bit older and I was wondering if anyone has a location for one that >> works with MySQL to check connections to the database and provide timings, >> etc.? >> >> Thanks >> >> Don K >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xymon mailing list >> Xymon at xymon.com >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >> > >

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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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