June 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

HP ILO via DEVMON was Re: Monitoring HP ILO via Ssh
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Not having much luck with this. Our HP servers are mostly HP Proliants, G5 through G8, mostly blades with some standalone, plus the HP bladesystems. The HP's are running a mix of Linux, x86 Solaris, VMWare ESXi and Windows.I'd like to get the information out of the ILO without having to run the HP utilities, because that gives us OS-independent monitoring. The ILO does have an option to take SNMP queries (as opposed to passing them through to an agent on the OS) but I don't think these are the right MIB's for these boxes. I can do an snmpwalk from my xymon dev server, but SNMPget just gets me variations on "There is no such variable name in this MIB " or " No Such Instance currently exists at this OID". (are the MIB's different for ILO vs pass-through SNMP, do you suppose?) This is the tip of SNMPwalk from one of our newest G8's SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Integrated Lights-Out 4 1.22 Apr 19 2013 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.232.9.4.10 and this from one of the older boxes: SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux hostname.example.com2.6.18-308.13.1.0.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Aug 22 05:10:25 EDT 2012 x86_64 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: NET-SNMP-MIB::netSnmpAgentOIDs.10 This *is* the first time I've installed either SNMP or Devmon, I've got to find a simpler test case to experiment with.

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xymon as a drop-in bb replacement
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

We ran BB 1.9 for years, then switched to BBPE about three years ago. Earlier this month, Quest announced end-of-life for BBPE so we're looking at our options. We have fewer than 500 clients reporting into Big Brother. But swapping them out for something else is going to painful and take time. If a xymon server will happily accept bb-client messages, then I could stand up a xymon server and replace clients through attrition. Has anyone else recently gone down this path? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska

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HTTPS problems in 4.3.11
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

> ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:00:28 +0200 > From: Henrik St?rner <henrik at hswn.dk> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] HTTPS problems in 4.3.11 > Message-ID: <51B80E7C.7030106 at hswn.dk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Den 12-06-2013 07:19, Andrey Chervonets skrev: > > I had found 2 problems that are reproducable only on 4.3.11 XyMon > > server (CentOS release 6.4 (Final)), > > on 4.3.4 (CentOS release 5.6 (Final)) works fine. > > > > Problem 1) Some https resources reported with red (http) and white > > (content), while really it can be accessed > > Going from CentOS 5->6 also means upgrading the OpenSSL libraries to > version 1.0 (from 0.9.8e). I assume you compiled 4.3.11 on the new server ? > > Check that SSL support is enabled in xymon: Run "xymonnet --version" and > check that there is a line with "SSL library: OpenSSL...." xymonnet --version just returns xymonnet version 4.3.11 RPMs are OK $ rpm -q openssl openssl-devel openssl-1.0.0-27.el6_4.2.x86_64 openssl-devel-1.0.0-27.el6_4.2.x86_64 But I am was sure I had replied Y for SSL tests during installation. To be double sure - I had renamed Makefile and run ./configure again today it was like: .. Checking for OpenSSL ... Compiling with SSL library works OK Linking with SSL library works OK Checking if your SSL library has SSLv2 enabled Will support SSLv2 when testing SSL-enabled network services Xymon can use the OpenSSL library to test SSL-enabled services like https-encrypted websites, POP3S, IMAPS, NNTPS and TELNETS. If you have the OpenSSL library installed, I recommend that you enable this. Do you want to be able to test SSL-enabled services (y) ? Y ... And resulting Makefile is the same as old. diff Makefile Makefile.old returns nothing. part of Makefile for SSL: # # OpenSSL settings # # OpenLDAP settings LDAPFLAGS = # But... 4.3.4 has the same on machine where SSL is working and ./xymonnet --version returns: xymonnet version 4.3.4 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20343 I had checked on another one machine I had installed XyMon 4.3.11 recently - OpenSUSE 12.3 xymonnet --version returns the same output: xymonnet version 4.3.11 and nothing more. Any ideas where could be the problem? Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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HTTPS problems in 4.3.11
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

I had found 2 problems that are reproducable only on 4.3.11 XyMon server (CentOS release 6.4 (Final)), on 4.3.4 (CentOS release 5.6 (Final)) works fine. Problem 1) Some https resources reported with red (http) and white (content), while really it can be accessed # hosts.cfg record 0.0.0.0 epak.pmlp.gov.lv # noconn https://epak.pmlp.gov.lv/ cont; https://epak.pmlp.gov.lv/NYX.Nyx002.WebSite/Default.aspx;"E-pakalpojums" http test output: # XyMon output: https://epak.pmlp.gov.lv/NYX.Nyx002.WebSite/Default.aspx - Server timeout Seconds: 11.72 https://epak.pmlp.gov.lv/ - Server timeout Seconds: 11.72 # content column output: An error occurred while testing URL https://epak.pmlp.gov.lv/NYX.Nyx002.WebSite/Default.aspx No output received from server --------- But is accessible for example with lynx (or wget) on the same server. And are green (both http and content) on other (4.3.4) XyMon server Both monitoring servers running on CentOS Problem 2) # hosts.cfg record (here in e-mail IP-last digits replaced with NN): 83.99.NN.NN p3-312.abcr-test # noconn https://83.99.NN.NN:443/ On XyMon 4.3.4 on resource have expired SSL certificate: and reported red for sslcert and green for http SSL certificate for https://83.99.NN.NN:443/ expired 175 days ago https://83.99.221.NN.NN:443/ - OK On XyMon 4.3.11 the same resource reported as red for http, nothing for sslcert https://83.99.NN.NN:443/ - Connected, but got empty response (code:0) Any ideas what can be wrong or how to diagnose? Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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smtp test oddness
by joea＠j4computers.com 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

xymon 4.3.7 Sometimes on smtp test I see: ----- Service smtp on mail2 is OK (up) 220 SMTP Proxy Server Ready 500 Command unrecognized: mail 221 Service closing transmission channel closing connection Seconds: 0.00 ------ Other times I see: ----- Service smtp on mail2 is OK (up) 220 SMTP Proxy Server Ready Seconds: 0.00 ----- All seems to be fully functional at the other end. joe a.

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Multiple TRACK for dir usage
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

I am using below configuration in analysis.cfg (we dont want any alert). Just wanted to know is there a way to do it in one line ? Suppose I have 10 dir to check usage for then i will have to add 10 DIR lines which I wanted to avoid. DIR /tmp TRACK="tmp" DIR /var TRACK="var" Thanks, Deepak

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bb-ESXi.pl
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

I got this ext script working. There were 2 secrets. Maybe 3. First I modified it to be xymon-ESXi.pl. Changing BB to XYMON and BBHOME to XYMONHOME. Etc. Second, I found that it was looking for a file .esxpass in $XYMONHOME. This is the password to get into the ESXi host. The bb-ESX.pl had it hard coded. Lastly, my root password for the servers has bad characters in it. I have to think up a new root password now. Actually. I'd rather add a user 'xymon' to the ESXi host. But I haven't been able to get that to work at all. Does anybody know how to get that to work? I'm also backfilling the bb-ESX.pl script to use the .esxpass file. Paul.

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Separate the columns out of the server
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

I have several columns of a server for monitoring cloud things. This monitoring is is done my custom scipts. I want to separate those columns under new heading like "Cloud Monitoring" instead of under the server where these scripts are configured. Is this possible with 4.3.10 version ?

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Monitoring HP ILO via Ssh
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

I'm looking at monitoring hp ilo via ssh, as our existing script only runs on the linux boxes. Looking at this, it isn't hard, so I'm thinking someone *MUST* have done this already In the spirit of never writing from scratch what you can steal ^H^H^H^H find an existing collaborative project on, does anyone have anything like this already? thanks Betsy

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trimhistory and "No events received in the last 240 minutes"
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi, Since I launched this command "./trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1 Feb 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --progress" I don't have anymore any event displayed in the "Non-green systems" page : "No events received in the last 240 minutes" and "No events acknowledged in the last 240 minutes" Anyones knows why ? Thanks

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