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MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Henrik and Fellow Xymoners, Just for you I have pushed off any real work for today just to get you all a first release of MAGMA the XYMon Web GUI Admin. MAGMA is an add-on web GUI for managing Host, Groups and Alarms on a XYmon 4.3 or newer system. You can find MAGMA at http://www.squidworks.net/magma/ There you will find the description, screen shots and features of MAGMA along with the link to download the source package. It requires MySQL and PHP5 and is very simple to install. All supporting information is included in the tarball. How does it work? --------------------------- It stores all alarm and host/group configs in the SQL database and rewrites the Host.cfg, Analysis.cfg and Alarms.cfg files causing the XYmon system to update its tests and pages based on the changes in these files. It will overwrite the files each time a host is added or edited making the process of updating automatic. To get the full benefit of MAGMA you should place all hosts in "central" mode, although this is not required, without it your management is somewhat restrictive (external test management only). In Central mode you get full management features for all tests. If you have any questions or need some help just send me a email @ sanderson @ squidworks.net Cubert 8-) Aka Shannon Anderson

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Xymon and Oracle ASM?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Anyone got any good scripts for xymon and Oracle ASM?

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Raspberry Pi Xymon Server
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hi, is it possible to use a Raspberry Pi (512MB model running Debian Squeeze) as a Xymon server (only for a limited number of clients)? Regards, Nick Pettefar

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logstash output for xymon
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Would love to see this added as an output to logstash On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Wilfrid Beauchaine <wbeauchaine at katei.net>wrote: > Hello > > i use http://www.logstash.net and xymon so i adapted the logstash output > zabbix for xymon: > > http://pastebin.com/UQBJF7m7 > > Actually i have not contacted logstash team to add this output. > So if you want use this you need to copy this code to > logstash/outputs/xymon.rb. > Execute jar -uf logstash-1.1.0.1-monolithic.jar logstash/outputs/xymon.rb > to add this on jar file > > i have only test this on linux > > if you have any question please contact me by email > > Regards, > Wilfrid > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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local mode client
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

One of my co-workers has installed xymon 4.3.7, and wants to use local mode for configuration. The display server is not receiving anything from his machine if things run normally, but when run by hand, xymon can send data from his server (Solaris) to the display server. I enabled xymond_client --debug in xymonclient.sh: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $MSGTMPFILE $XYMONHOME/bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/localclient .cfg <$MSGTMPFILE And now I'm getting this: + ../bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=528383 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Got 161874 bytes 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 ../bin/xymond_client: Got message 1 @client#1|0|127.0.0.1|neptune.lib.iastate.edu|sunos 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Opening file ../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Compiling regex ^/zones.*/ 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Client report from host neptune.lib.iastate.edu 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 neptune.lib.iastate.edu: Duplicate client message at time 0, seq 1, lastseq 0 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 2, startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=366509 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 get_xymond_message: Returning NULL due to EOF + rm -f ../tmp/msg.neptune.lib.iastate.edu.txt I'm not sure where to go from here. Does local mode still work for most people? -Tracy

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The Big Brother / Xymon summit
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi, Sean McGuire - the inventor of Big Brother - and myself managed to get together at "Sparkys Roadside Barbecue" in Miami last month. We had a very nice evening discussing Big Brother, Xymon, the foibles of our various corporate overlords, and generally covering a wide range of topics. In other words, I had a great evening - and I think Sean did too. Thanks to the Xymon users who donated "beer money" for the event, although Sean insisted to save those for another occasion. So if you've ever wondered what Sean or myself really look like, here's a couple of photos. It's Sean in the "barbecue-colored" shirt (his words, not mine). Regards, Henrik

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canceling acknowledgements
by lebarber＠gmail.com 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is there some way to cancel an 'ack' after it has been issued? Thanks, Larry Barber

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questions on MAGMA
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

So I got around to magma on my devel server yesterday. I guess I missed a step. It overwrote my hosts.cfg and analysis.cfg files. Is there a way to read in what I already have? Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

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Monitoring process with regex - fails with 4.3.12
by john.horne＠plymouth.ac.uk 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Hello, I have just upgraded some client servers from Xymon 4.3.10 to 4.3.12. Two clients now continuously report that a specific process (clamd) is not running. (I have checked both servers and the process is running.) In the monitoring server analysis.cfg file I have (for both clients): PROC "% clamd$" TEXT=clamd This worked fine for 4.3.10, but now seems to fail. We have some other process strings containing 'clamd', so we had to use the above to ensure that we were just monitoring the main 'clamd' process. However, the 4.3.12 'Changes' file does mention: * Linux clients now align "ps" output so it is more readable. I'm not sure if that is relevant. I'll see if I can test things a bit further to see what is happening. John. -- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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Memory Monitor Solaris 10 Client
by torsten.ogrissek＠pixelpark.com 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

Dear Xymon-Team, we have mentioned a problem with our memory monitors for solaris clients. the data shown on the page of every monitor for solaris are the mirrored like it is - let me explain. We have installed munin and xymon on a solaris 10 machine, so that we can compare the data from both tools. If munin and the system says the current memory used is 48% --> xymon shows 52%. If munin and the system shows that 15% are currently used - xymon shows 85%... and so on. We currently use Xymon server 4.3.10 and solaris client 4.3.7. Do you have any idea, what we can do, is it a bug - maybe fixed in newer client versions, or do we have to configure something for the correct data? Regards Torsten

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