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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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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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