August 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Task xymongen terminated by signal 6
by dboldt＠usgs.gov 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Running xymon 4.3.12 on Solaris 10 x86. I'm having some difficulty tracking down what it is I have misconfigured. Running the following: ( . /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg; /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymongen --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=2 --report --debug ) The last 10 lines are: 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '# man-page.' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '#' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '# You need to define at least the Xymon server itself here.' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '130.11.50.48 owipm1.er.usgs.gov # bbd http://owipm1.er.usgs.gov/' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 init_host(owipm1.er.usgs.gov) 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_layout: -- got line '152.61.237.88 owipm1.cr.usgs.gov #' 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 init_host(owipm1.cr.usgs.gov) 17466 2013-08-29 17:05:17 load_state() Abort(coredump) I can provide a stack trace on the core file if that would be helpful. -- -- David Boldt <dboldt at usgs.gov> "Careful. We don't want to learn from this." --Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"

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Netapp Monitoring
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Anyone using Xymon to monitor their filers? I know there's a perl client on deadcat, but I believe is uses RSH, which is a no go for me. I'm hoping there's something out there like Jeremy's rclient before I go and reinvent the wheel. Jamison Maxwell jamison at newasterisk.com<mailto:jamison at newasterisk.com>

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does xymon have any option to monitor a java app
by ciprian.parfon＠gmail.com 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

Hi May I know if there's anything in XYmon which can allow a java app or maybe tomcat to be monitored? -- Cip

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Netapp Monitoring
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Great tip with SSH, I appreciate that. I'm having trouble getting it running, though. Do I need to apply the patches? There for hobbit and the paths in the diff reference hobbit and not Xymon. I'm on Xymon 4.3.11. Without the patch I get a message from the script saying it's skipping the filer because it's not in bbhost, however, it is in hosts.cfg. If I need to apply the patch, which I probably do as it seems to have fixed this error in 2008, how do I go about converting it for Xymon? Just find and replace? Jamison Maxwell jamison at newasterisk.com ________________________________________ From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Martin Flemming [martin.flemming at desy.de] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:14 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Netapp Monitoring Hmm, i use it with ssh :-) grep -i ssh ../netapp.ini # asisshowrule = [yes|no] default yes rshcommand = /usr/bin/ssh -x -a -l root cheers, martin On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Jamison Maxwell wrote: > I'm adding the list in. > Because RSH is plaintext. > > > Jamison Maxwell > > > > Mario <rower.master at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why not hobbit-perl-client(netapp.pl) and rsh? > It works pretty well for me. > > > Regards, > Mario > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com> wrote: > > Anyone using Xymon to monitor their filers? I know there's a perl client on deadcat, but I believe is uses RSH, which is a no go for me. I'm hoping there's > something out there like Jeremy's rclient before I go and reinvent the wheel. > > > > > > Jamison Maxwell > jamison at newasterisk.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > >

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MRTG SNMP settings on Windows
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

I'm trying to have xymon and MRTG show the network traffic graph for our Windows servers. I've got Xymon with MRTG functioning on an Ubuntu box and it's able to make MRTG graphs for our router network traffic, but when I try to monitor our Windows servers it shows no data in the graphs. I've got the SNMP service running in Windows and I've set the community name, but no data. I've opened up ports 161 & 162 on the firewall too. Here's the error I get in the mrtg log on my xymon box. 2013-08-31 16:40:32: ERROR: Target[mrtg.vm-buzzard.lan][_IN_] ' $target->[3]{$mode} ' did not eval into defined data 2013-08-31 16:40:32: ERROR: Target[mrtg.vm-buzzard.lan][_OUT_] ' $target->[3]{$mode} ' did not eval into defined data I'm sure it's something simple. Please advise. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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Bug in Xymon when devmon doesnt pass a virutal name but does pass brackets
by vachon＠sessionm.com 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Given GigabitEthernet #/# which has no alias, xymon will blow up when rendering the html on the first occurrence of: GigiabitEthernet #/# [ Since we didn't have an alias defined, it would bomb out and fail to render the rest of the page from svcstatus.cgi -- Thomas Vachon Principal Operations Architect vachon at sessionm.com

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Serial alarm feeds
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

On 27 August 2013 13:31, KING, KEVIN <KK1051 at att.com> wrote: > No no snmp. It is a very closed system. The messages we get are out of a > serial port to a term server. :-( > I guess I do not know the client tool then. How can I save the files on my > xymon server and use entries in the client config and alert rules to make > if show up under the correct server? Maybe I am getting myself stuck in > the mud, but if the file is on the xymon host how can I process it like it > was on the client? A server is almost always also a client. You should have the Xymon server name in hosts.cfg, yes? Also, the Xymon server can be listed in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg. Just create appropriate entries in those two files for the server and the logfile, and it will report the errors as they appear. The down-side to this is that the errors are assigned to the Xymon server. If you want them assigned to the device name instead, then you will probably have to do something a bit more complex, such as writing a custom script on the Xymon server to do the log analysis and reporting. I don't see a way that you can do this with the built-in log monitoring features. Hmm, here's an idea. You could create a script that simply replicates the log file into a client message, which would be a substitute for the client-local.cfg entry. So then you'd be able to use the standard "LOG" definitions in analysis.cfg to match whatever you want. The easiest way to do this, I think, would be to run a second copy of logfetch on the Xymon server (the standard one is usually run from xymonclient.sh, from the [xymonclient] section of tasks.cfg). The logfetch tool requires a configuration file and a state file as parameters. Normally the config file is simply extracted from client-local.cfg and pushed to the client during the client message interaction, but you can simply create your own. For example (untested), create in $XYMONTMP the file logfetch-special.cfg, containing the following: log:/var/log/mylogfile:10240 ignore THIS ignore THAT Then add the following into tasks.cfg or a new file in tasks.d: [xymonclient-special] NEEDS xymond ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonclient-special.log INTERVAL 5m CMD sh -c '( printf "eagle.example.com.eagle eagle\n[msgs:/var/log/mylogfile]\n"; $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/logfetch $XYMONTMP/logfetch-special.cfg $XYMONTMP/logfetch-special.status ) | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"' This creates a header, using the device's hostname, and a [msgs:] section for the logfile being monitored. Then it uses logfetch to get the latest bunch of lines from the logfile, and filter out any "ignore" entries from the config file logfetch-special.cfg. Finally, all of this is piped into an instance of xymon that creates a client message and sends it to the server. The end result is a client message that should start to generate a "msgs" dot against the device name (assuming you added the device name into hosts.cfg - probably with a "noping" tag). If this works, you can then start using analysis.cfg to have the Xymon server parse the log file from the client data. This is all a bit kludgy. You might prefer to extract the CMD bit into a separate script, and just put the script name after the CMD keyword. J

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Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?
by novosirj＠ca.rutgers.edu 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/2013 10:58 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote: > On 27 June 2013 02:38, Gore, David W (David) > <david.gore at verizon.com <mailto:david.gore at verizon.com>> wrote: > > Where is it getting the 106M number? Anyone else seen this on > Solaris? ____ > > > Yes, same here. It gets the number from the [swaplist] section > (from `swap -l`) of your client message, in preference to the > [swap] section (from `swap -s`). [Reference: > xymond/client/solaris.c, in function handle_solaris_client()] > > So the real question is, why does "swap -s" and "swap -l" give > different results? The man page for swap indicates that "swap -s" > includes swap space in the form of physical memory (in addition to > swap partitions and files). Physical memory used for swap?! Huh!? > I really don't know how the Solaris memory management works! So I was about to write: "Another great question: why does one of (and probably more, but not all) my machines NOT have a [swaplist] section and therefore, possibly as a result, show the correct info? I'm suspecting this is why I thought this worked fine, because it does, at least on some of my equipment. Two machines are easy to compare because they're both on the same page in Xymon. Both are Solaris 10u10 SPARC." ...and then I discovered that the working machine is running the Xymon client v4.2.3 and the broken one is running Xymon 4.3.10. Hmmmmm. - -- ____*Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences* || \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*--------------------- ||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer || \\ and Health | novosirj at rutgers.edu - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) || \\ Sciences | OIT/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark `' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIfw3oACgkQmb+gadEcsb5jyACfYbTlfCmdFcbfRXt/mgskFE5k V4wAoMLHxrHtQVWOpuwN+VW4Y6PSx2Qd =AQBO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Feature Request: additional icons for Flapping Status
by a_s_y＠sama.ru 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hello. It seems to me that it would be convenient to see own icons for flapping status. Base icon + F for example (in attachment). How difficult it is to do ? -- Regards, Sergey

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MRTG_lib.pm trouble
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

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