August 2013 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Rpm process?
by dewelker＠gmail.com 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Has anyone else had the problem of getting a red cpu status of "Load is CRITICAL!" with the process list showing a Xymon process of rpm being the top user of CPU resources? I looked all over the source code and don't see anywhere that Xymon is using the rpm command to do anything. Since this is a "canned" status on a running system, not on a system where Xymon is being built, for example, this is obviously a default process, but where is it coming from? Thanks, David

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Windows Client
by ulric＠siag.nu 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

On 07/22/2013 03:20 PM, Neil Simmonds wrote: > MrBig seems to have no one maintaining the code > Who am I then? :) Ulric

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SMS to long
by dirk.kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 07 Aug '13

07 Aug '13

Hi, alerting via SMS is working fine, generally. But there is a problem with one webserver, that has a very long URL. Xymon is sending the following message: my.web.server:http red [654381] &red https://a&very&long&url - Connection refused The resulting message has 189 characters. That is, why the SMS always gets rejected by our SMS server. Is there a way to shorten the URL that is sent in the alert message? Thanks, Dirk

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Devmon template for a Cisco ACS server
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 06 Aug '13

06 Aug '13

Does anyone have a template for the Cisco ACS? (tacacs/radius authentication server). We wrote an expect script to pull out the wanted data from the command line, but it is so slow, we often miss polls. SNMP would be much simpler. Paul.

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Xymon 4.3.11 Availability Report
by cure4all＠gmail.com 05 Aug '13

05 Aug '13

Hello, Is it possible to run an "Availability Report" for a date range, showing only Weekdays between specific time of the day?? For example: May 10, 2013 to June 29, 2013 (only weekdays between 04:00 to 21:00) Pri

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Windows Client
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 04 Aug '13

04 Aug '13

BBWin works (mostly) the same as the Xymon client - it downloads the clientlocal.cfg from the server. I say "mostly", because it doesn't work with some settings - particularly event logs. Does MiniCFG push the config to the clients? Malcolm ----- Original Message ----- From: Ulric Eriksson Sent: 08/02/13 11:53 AM To: Morsiani, Massimo Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Client On 08/02/2013 11:07 AM, Morsiani, Massimo wrote: > Hi Ulric, > > does MrBig support centralized configuration as BBWin? > I don't know how BBWin works in that regard, but yes, MrBig has a central configuration daemon for this purpose. See here: http://mrbig.365-24.se/Doc/config.php Ulric _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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Devmon/Xmon Double POS
by kc6ovd＠att.net 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hello all, I have a issue with POS cards in my cisco routers report twice in the ifName OID. It is how they report in the MIB. So if anyone has this setup what have you do to Demon or xymon to deal with the double entries? I am running devmon perpetual beta version, and Xymon 4.3.10 Here is what I get from a snmpwalk: IF-MIB::ifName.350 = STRING: PO1/0/0 IF-MIB::ifName.351 = STRING: PO1/0/0 IF-MIB::ifName.352 = STRING: PO1/0/1 IF-MIB::ifName.353 = STRING: PO1/0/1 IF-MIB::ifName.354 = STRING: PO1/0/2 IF-MIB::ifName.355 = STRING: PO1/0/2 IF-MIB::ifName.356 = STRING: PO1/0/3 IF-MIB::ifName.357 = STRING: PO1/0/3 -Kevin

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postgresql
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Thanks, i will test when i come back from holiday :-) cheers, martin On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Galen Johnson wrote: > I haven't had the time to look at this yet (but I need to for work...it's on my todo list). If you are using a RHEL variant (not sure if it's available as a package for other OSes) there is a check_postgres monitoring script available. Pretty sure it interfaces readily with Nagios and a couple of other so it may not be too hard to convert it to work for Xymon. > > =G= > > ________________________________________ > From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of martin.flemming at desy.de [martin.flemming at desy.de] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:54 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] postgresql > > Hi ! > > Got anybody an addon for monitoring > for a postgresql-db ? > > I've find only theses two threads > > http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2008/04/msg00163.html > > .. the server is not reachable anymore :-( > > http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2008/04/msg00163.html > > .. not very helpful for me :-( > > thanks & cheers > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > Gruss Martin Flemming ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________

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New "test" for zone memory
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hi all I recently cobbled together a "test", more to give me a single view of zone memory allocation than real alerting, and then I added the swap allocation too. More of a single view of all memory allocations and usage. It shows the caps in play, how much is being used, how much is available, and a few other bits and pieces, and can even alert if some go over threshold. I also threw in some graphing, which I find handy. YMMV The code is a bit rough, and can do with a code review if anybody is interested. Constructive criticism is always well received. It can be found here. https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:zonemem Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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Pushing client status with bbwincmd.exe
by NRiley＠network-support.com 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

Hello all, I am working on pushing some data that I have collected and formatted on my clients into my Xymon 4.3.4 installation. Basically, the issue is that I cannot get the alerts to trigger for these specific hosts/services. All my other alerting works great, and I was hoping someone might have some insight. Let me walk you through the process: - First, on the server, I updated the TEST2RRD variable in xymonserver.cfg to reflect my new columns that the clients will be reporting on (shortened for readability): TEST2RRD=cpu=la,disk,inode,..................,vmware,vmware-cpu,vmware-memory,vmware-storage,vmware-datastore,vmware-chassis,vmware-guest" - Secondly, I updated the hosts.cfg file: page vmware VMWare Servers group-except conn|trends <H3><B><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica">VMWare ESXi Servers</font></B></H3> 0.0.0.0 my-dc09.root.whatever # noconn vmware vmware-chassis vmware-cpu vmware-datastore vmware-memory vmware-storage 0.0.0.0 vmware2.root.something # noconn vmware vmware-chassis vmware-cpu vmware-datastore vmware-memory vmware-storage -Third, I updated the alerts.cfg: PAGE=vmware SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/emailConnector.sh alert at email.com REPEAT=24h SERVICE=vmware,vmware-chassis,vmware-cpu,vmware-datastore,vmware-memory,vmware-storage Now that the server side is done, I run this command on the client: BBWinCmd.exe myserver.com:1984 status my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu red $CPUmessage Command works good. I see that in Xymon the vmware-memory column for my-dc09.root.whatever went red, and the main vmware page I defined in hosts.cfg is red as well. Here is where things start to go bad, I cannot get it to alert on this. So I ran an additional troubleshooting command from the server: me at monitor:/usr/lib/xymon/server$ ./bin/xymoncmd --env=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg xymond_alert --test my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu --duration 501 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 send_alert my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu state Paging 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 123 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'HOST=*' (color) 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 141 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=vmware' (color) 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 148 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=servers' (pagename not in include list) 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 150 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'HOST=%(ns1|silver|red).whatever.com' (hostname not in include list) The part that is very strange to me is this line: 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=vmware' (color) This seems to tell me that it matched on the page vmware as it should, but did not match due to color, even though the vmware page and the my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu column is absolutely red. I have tried adding in things like COLOR=Red to my hosts.cfg but it still fails in the same way. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas you may have. -Nathan Riley

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