August 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

monitoring UPS
by JAlexander＠feeneywireless.com 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

I installed NUT and the set of scripts from revpol.com. They work as advertised, but I'm looking to have the data displayed on the page for the respective UPS - rather than the Xymon server. Any thoughts or hints? Thanks. John Alexander Network Administrator John.Alexander at feeneywireless.com<mailto:John.Alexander at feeneywireless.com> Feeney Wireless, LLC - PO Box 2549, Eugene, Oregon 97402 (Free) 800-683-4818 (P) 541-393-8518 (F) 541-284-0030 www.feeneywireless.com<http://www.feeneywireless.com/> [http://shopping.netsuite.com/c.491803/site/signature_image.gif] This email transmission is intended only for the addressee shown above. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents by persons other than the addressee is strictly prohibited! If you have received this email transmission in error please notify us immediately.

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using the status message to update colors and/or rrd values
by blevin＠seven.com 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

hi, we're using xymon at our company and we have our own data poller which sends updated colors and numerical values to the various objects on the xymon 'map'. as is typical, our script runs as: /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow yellow `date` heynow : 3.14 ' and this works great when I want to send BOTH a color AND a value to this object. if I want to send just a new color to this object, the short form also works great: /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow yellow' but is there any way to send JUST the value update and leave the color unchanged? sometimes we have a trap coming in and that might want to update just the color. other times, we have a poller (of our own) that does not want to disturb any already-set colors but wants to just throw another sample at the rrd graph that is controlled by this object. before I dive into the source code, I wonder if this is already supported somehow. TIA, .bl

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Lists archive
by mburger＠bubbanfriends.org 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

There was a server outage, earlier. The links work for me, now. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 On Sunday, September 8, I'll be participating in the Spokes of Hope ride, to raise money for cancer awareness and make a difference in the lives of cancer victims and their families/friends. If you'd care to donate, please click: http://ow.ly/nIdrC Thank you. > I'm trying to access the lists archive and I'm just getting The page > cannot be found. > > As we recently went exclusively behind a proxy (used to have direct access > to the web) I'm wondering if it's that or a problem with the list server. > Could someone try the following links please? > > http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/08/msg00045.html > > http://www.xymon.com/archive/2009/08/threads.html > > Cheers, > > Neil Simmonds > Senior Operations Analyst (Operations Support Group) > Express Gifts Limited > Express House > Clayton Business Park > Accrington > Lancashire > BB5 5JY > T: 01254 303092 | E: > neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk<mailto:neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk> > > Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, > CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. > Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial > Services Authority > -------------- > NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a > separate file is confidential and intended solely for the > Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is > solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any > information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of > Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the > information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request > will destroy the information and remove it from their records. > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not > the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in > error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, > or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or > assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this > e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences > arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor > all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If > you have received this email in error please notify our IT > helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 > 303030_______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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Lists archive
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

I'm trying to access the lists archive and I'm just getting The page cannot be found. As we recently went exclusively behind a proxy (used to have direct access to the web) I'm wondering if it's that or a problem with the list server. Could someone try the following links please? http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/08/msg00045.html http://www.xymon.com/archive/2009/08/threads.html Cheers, Neil Simmonds Senior Operations Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk<mailto:neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk> Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority -------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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Xymon server outage
by henrik＠hswn.dk 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Hi, just in case you've been wondered why www.xymon.com was unavailable and the mailing list went silent: My hosting provider decided to do some urgent - unplanned - maintenance work on the server this morning, so the it was shut down around 7 AM UTC. Since it needs some encryption codes to start up again, I wasn't able to bring it back online until around 2 PM. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Henrik

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What is the maximum hostname length?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

Howdy, All! What is the maximum allowed hostname length (excluding FQDN) in Xymon? Thanks! david ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman (512) 873-6665

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Feature Request ~ logfetch
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

On 1 July 2013 15:57, Yuki Matsushita <matsushy at creo.co.jp> wrote: > In addition, I found a typo in line 251. > This! Domo arigato Yuki-san! Yes, this has been bugging me for almost 2 years (when I reported the resultant segfault it to the List). I haven't been able to use any "trigger" clauses in all that time. It's still broken in the current trunk (rev 7257). I'm guessing, from reading the code, that I could work around this by always have exactly the same number of "trigger" lines as "ignore" lines - perhaps padding out with bogus "trigger" or "ignore" lines. But obviously would be better to have it fixed. Henrik, do you need a patch submitted for this one-line fix? J

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/var/core/ files
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

Is there a way to be alerted if any core files are created in /var/core/ (Solaris 10)? Just the presence of any core* file is sufficient. Regards, Nick Pettefar

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SSL Certs on servers with multiple virtualhosts
by JAlexander＠feeneywireless.com 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

I'm running Xymon 4.3.12 on CentOS 6.4 and monitoring a number of Apache web servers that each have multiple SSL VirtualHosts. Xymon appears to be using the openssl s_client utility to check server certificates and since s_client is not SNI compliant, it only picks up the certificate of the first VirtualHost. All other VirtualHosts are reported having the same certificate. Does anyone know of a workaround (perhaps using curl) to validate SSL certificates and track expiration dates of those certificates? Thanks much. John Alexander Network Administrator

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xymon MQ monitoring
by miker＠readq.com 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

>The MQ handler is not enabled by default in the xymond_client module. >Change tasks.cfg to start xymond_client with >"--collectors=default,mqcollect" OK, I have modified tasks.cfg for the regular client channel. Now the process command line looks like: bb 16733 16729 0 17:16 ? 00:00:00 xymond_channel --channel=client --collectors=default,mqcollect --log=/var/log/xymon/clientdata.log xymond_client Not yet seeing any change in the main BB page however (I may have to wait a bit for it to regenerate) but is this correct?

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