January 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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 wbeauchaine＠katei.net 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

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

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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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nginx as the web server
by vadud3＠gmail.com 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi All I am using nginx instead of apache with xymon. I set it up using the link http://timedoctor.org/2010/09/setting-up-xymonhobbit-with-nginx/ I am using nginx with xymon_4.3.12_amd64.deb from sourceforge. To make the cgi links work I needed to create symlinks as the link above suggested. /usr/lib/xymon/xymon-cgi -> /usr/lib/xymon/cgi-bin /usr/lib/xymon/xymon-seccgi -> /usr/lib/xymon/cgi-secure Is that how everyone using it with nginx? Please advise. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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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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Column order and accessibility of the 'info' column
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 27 May '14

27 May '14

We're finding the 'info' column to be very important to us, but are also finding it a little difficult to find in the web displays. Since the number and titles of the columns displayed for each group vary, it is impossible to know which green diamond is the 'info' column without consulting the group-header. Is is difficult in a couple of cases: + If there are many hosts in a group, it can be hard to do the row/column matching to click the correct 'info' button. + If we use the 'find host/jump' function, the found host is at the top of the page and we must scroll up to find the header. I can think of several ways to make this more usable: + Use a unique icon (or icon set) for 'info'. Is 'info' ever be anything but green? + Let me rename the 'info' column like we can the 'conn' column. If it were named ' info' it would always sort to the left. + Let me specify an alternative column sort order for my pageset. + Make the 'find/jump' option jump to the group rather than the host. Can anyone suggest another way (which is already possible) I can use to improve the accessibility of the 'info' column? -- 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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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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BBwin 0.13 and Mountpoints
by rower.master＠gmail.com 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hi All, I´m trying to fix the issue with the graphs creation for windows mountpoints and bbwin 0.13. The issue is that we only have graphs for the single drive letters and not for the mountpoints using the bbwin 0.13. Another problem is even if the graphs were working we could not have duplicated names for different drive letters. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Total Size Free Space Type Status Mount Point C 62811132 49966236 12844896 79% 59.90 GB 12.25 GB FIXED green N/A D 116043772 1100880 114942892 0% 110.67 GB 109.62 GB FIXED green N/A E 943848444 533077788 410770656 56% 900.12 GB 391.74 GB FIXED green N/A F 943848444 495800916 448047528 52% 900.12 GB 427.29 GB FIXED green N/A J 20970492 14764648 6205844 70% 20.00 GB 5.92 GB FIXED green N/A DadosLocal_Diversos_A 1237451772 928809832 308641940 75% 1.15 TB 294.34 GB FIXED green J:\DadosLocal_Diversos_A\ DadosLocal_Diversos_B 1782825980 1216555488 566270492 68% 1.66 TB 540.04 GB FIXED green J:\DadosLocal_Diversos_B\ Tempdb 104869884 54526796 50343088 51% 100.01 GB 48.01 GB FIXED green J:\Tempdb\ Log_Local 199235580 135337320 63898260 67% 190.01 GB 60.94 GB FIXED green J:\Log_Local\ I´ve already modified the winPSclient to consider the mountpoints and If I use this client I have all the graphs created without any problem. But I don´t want to continue changing or adding a server agent everytime a server administrator configure a mountpoint in a server. WinPSCLient output example where I have all graphs created: Mon 06 Jan 16:44:55 2014 - Filesystems OK Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail GB) C 52377596 39455096 12922500 75% /FIXED/C 49.95gb\12.32gb D 90254332 82510624 7743708 91% /FIXED/D 86.07gb\7.38gb F 10482684 91992 10390692 1% /FIXED/F 10.00gb\9.91gb F:\ORAARCHIVE 10482684 85608 10397076 1% /FIXED/F:\ORAARCHIVE 10.00gb\9.92gb F:\ORABACKUP01 10482684 1638116 8844568 16% /FIXED/F:\ORABACKUP01 10.00gb\8.43gb F:\ORADATA01 41939964 31552684 10387280 75% /FIXED/F:\ORADATA01 40.00gb\9.91gb I 10482684 84468 10398216 1% /FIXED/I 10.00gb\9.92gb I:\ORAARCHIVE 5239804 54772 5185032 1% /FIXED/I:\ORAARCHIVE 5.00gb\4.94gb I:\ORABACKUP01 52425724 93492 52332232 0% /FIXED/I:\ORABACKUP01 50.00gb\49.91gb I:\ORADATA01 209712124 98292 209613832 0% /FIXED/I:\ORADATA01 200.00gb\199.90gb J 10482684 96676 10386008 1% /FIXED/J 10.00gb\9.90gb J:\OraArchive 5239804 125628 5114176 2% /FIXED/J:\OraArchive 5.00gb\4.88gb J:\ORADATA01 207614972 136793092 70821880 66% /FIXED/J:\ORADATA01 198.00gb\67.54gb J:\ORATEMP 41939964 33645564 8294400 80% /FIXED/J:\ORATEMP 40.00gb\7.91gb I´ve tried some modifications on do_disk.c but without sucess. I´ve created a new dsystype called DT_MOUNTPOINT: *else if (strstr(msg, "Mount Point")) dsystype = DT_MOUNTPOINT;... if ( (dsystype == DT_MOUNTPOINT) && (*(columns[9])) && (strchr(columns[11], '/')) ) dsystype = DT_MOUNTPOINT;if ( (dsystype == DT_MOUNTPOINT) && (*(columns[9])) && (strchr(columns[11], ':')) ) dsystype = DT_MOUNTPOINT;* And here at the "case DT_MOUNTPOINT" is where the things are not good. I´ve tried to get the the column[11] but unfortunately we have backslashes. I´ve tried several ways, but I´m not good in c as I would like to and after many many tests I´m asking for a help or if you can put this on Xymon todo list. I´m using xymon 4.3.0-beta2 , sorry if this was already solved in the last version. I´ve checked the do_disk.c file on the last stable but couldn´t see this solution. *case DT_MOUNTPOINT: diskname = xstrdup(columns[11]); if (strstr(diskname, "N/A")) { diskname = xstrdup(columns[0]); } else { diskname = xstrdup(columns[11]); } /*sprintf(diskname, "/%s", columns[11]);*/ p = strchr(columns[4], '%'); if (p) *p = ' '; pused = atoi(columns[4]); aused = str2ll(columns[2], NULL); break;* I´ve tried to use the diskname as columns[0] but doesn´t work for the mountpoints too. The case DT_BBWin format that works for the winPSclient doesn´t work if I use the diskname as columns[0] or columns[11]. case DT_BBWIN: *diskname = xmalloc(strlen(columns[0])+2); sprintf(diskname, "/%s", columns[0]);* Thanks in advance, Mario

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