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FW: fping for xymon 4.3.11
by minaqva＠hotmail.com 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hello, I think this is what you should do on your xymon server machine : chown root:xymon /usr/local/sbin/fping chmod 710 /usr/local/sbin/fping chmod ug+s /usr/local/sbin/fping Regards Milana Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:12:26 -0500 From: lebarber at gmail.com To: canghel at cjh.org CC: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] fping for xymon 4.3.11 It looks like you don't have the suid bit set on the fping executable, or it's not owned by root, or both. Thanks,Larry Barber On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Camelia Anghel <canghel at cjh.org> wrote: Hello I’m getting this annoying error message for a freshly installed xymon 4.3.11. Is this a bug that has to be fixed?I looked over the other error message “failed with error-code 4” .. I assigned the sticky bit, verify the 2 instances of fping.. nothing seems to work. Any ideas anybody?Thanks,Camelia _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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fping for xymon 4.3.11
by canghel＠cjh.org 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hello I'm getting this annoying error message for a freshly installed xymon 4.3.11. [cid:image002.png at 01CE4B27.B0342C20] Is this a bug that has to be fixed? I looked over the other error message "failed with error-code 4" .. I assigned the sticky bit, verify the 2 instances of fping.. nothing seems to work. Any ideas anybody? Thanks, Camelia

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Rare shape in graphs.
by ragonlan＠gmail.com 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi all, Recently I've included 2 new host to monitor in xymon but from time to time response times are quite high (2 o 3 seconds). Shape in graphs draws ups and downs in a very recognisable manner: [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] Testing the host (a windows server) with telnet for hours (Perl script) doesn't shows this responses times (always fewer than 1 second). Does anyone knows where could be the problem? Is it a xymon server problem or it may be in the remote server? I think it is in the remote server but I couldn't demonstrate it and than curious graphs doesn't help clarifying it.

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graph definition: file pattern
by stef.coene＠docum.org 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hi, I'm looking for a way to influence the rrds in a multi-rrd graph. I use FNPATTERN, but I want to have more control from the url because the graphs I want can change from server to server. As example, this is a graph with 4 filesystems: hobbitgraph.sh?host=serverA& service=disk& first=1& count=4& action=menu But I want to specify the filesystems I want to see: hobbitgraph.sh?host=serverA& service=disk& rrd=/,/home,/usr& action=menu An other solution for my case is the possibility to overrule the FNPATTERN in the config file from the url. For instance, I want to change the FNPATTERN from [disk] so it only shows the filesystems beginning with /home: hobbitgraph.sh?host=serverA& service=disk& FNPATTERN=disk,home(.*).rrd& action=menu The url's to the graphs are generated externally from xymon. I use the filesystems as example. I need this to group hdisk information on AIX per VG. Any thoughts? Stef

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change of one alert notification time
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 06 May '13

06 May '13

I want to change one of an alert's notification time. eg. all alerts will have repeat time of 30 mins and disk (or my custom alert) will have repeat time as 4 hours, tried below configuration but not working as expected. What am I doing wrong? HOST=$HOSTS SERVICE=* IGNORE SERVICE=disk SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl mail_id at gmail.comFORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=30 RECOVERED NOTICE SERVICE=disk SCRIPT /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl mail_id at gmail.comFORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=240 RECOVERED NOTICE Thanks, Deepak

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Connection time is differently between fping and xymonping
by a_s_y＠sama.ru 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hello. I attempted to use xymonping instead of fping. A part of xymonserver.cfg: #FPING="/usr/sbin/fping" # Path and options for the ping program. FPING="/usr/lib/xymon/xymonping" # Path and options for the ping program. A strange behavior was found: connection time of xymonping is very big. 172.30.1.2 is alive (0.64 ms) - this is fping 172.30.1.2 is alive (40 ms) - this is xymonping But it is only on web page and in rrd (graph in attachment). Connection time is same when command line of xymon host (Linux) is used: $ /usr/sbin/fping -Ae 172.30.1.2 172.30.1.2 is alive (0.63 ms) $ /usr/lib/xymon/xymonping 172.30.1.2 172.30.1.2 is alive (0.70 ms) Any ideas ? -- Regards, Sergey

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SCO OS 6 Returns Negative Memory
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 03 May '13

03 May '13

I'm having an issue where I've got one OpenServer 6 box that returns a negative value for the memory test, this is on 4.3.11. I'm not really sure where to start looking. Client Data: [memsize] 4294496256 [freemem] Average 968749 1582626 193182 733337 [swap] path dev swaplo blocks free /dev/swap 7679,1 0 5515256 5515256 I see in the client script that the result is based off of the output from 'sar -r 1 2 | tail -1'. Here's output from sar minus the tail: 13:21:56 freemem freeswap freekv filemem 13:21:57 968176 1583206 193184 732722 13:21:58 968088 1583206 193184 732676 Average 968132 1583206 193184 732699 What's actually reported is: Physical -3782M 0M 0% Swap 0M 2692M 0% Anyone know where to start? Jamison Maxwell jamison at newasterisk.com

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Controlers graph
by kc6ovd＠gmail.com 03 May '13

03 May '13

Xymoners, I was wondering if anyone is already collecting a graphing the controllers data from Cisco routers. Ether via external script or Devmon. Thought I would check before I fired up the tire factory J Here is the output of what I am looking to gather. router>sh controllers ser1/0/0 tab Serial1/0/0 - (SPA-4XT3/E3) is up Framing is c-bit, Clock Source is Line Bandwidth limit is 44210, DSU mode 0, Cable length is 10 feet rx FEBE since last clear counter 0, since reset 32 Tabular MIB : INTERVAL LCV PCV CCV PES PSES SEFS UAS LES CES CSES 08:15-08:29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:00-08:15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:45-08:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:30-07:45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:15-07:30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -Kevin

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manually running custom script not changing the status
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 03 May '13

03 May '13

I have a script which runs after 24 hrs interval, if we get an alert we work on it and after resolving the issue I tried to run that custom script manually but it didnt change the status into green. I had to wait until its next run, i.e. after 24 hrs. How can I run the custom script before its next run time which will change the xymon status if the issue is resolved?

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Custom check interval for different status of custom tests
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 03 May '13

03 May '13

Is it possible to define different check interval for custom tests? for example, we check tablespaces space usage in database. For some tests we do not to check once per 5 min just because of performance impact of some complex requests. When status is green - we do check every 30 min. But if status is yellow and red - the DBA can make fix faster then in 30 min (or even situation can change faster) and it would nice to reflect correct status earlier then in 30 min. Is i possible now or may be it can be implemented in next release? Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/ mobile: +371 26517848

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