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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 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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Bug in handling of Windows services
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

I believe there is a bug in the way Xymon handles Windows service data. I've always used BBWin agents and had the issue when a Service is in a stopped state that Xymon actually reports, Service is started/automatic - want started/automatic This is with the analysis.cfg line of SVC Service status=started startup=automatic I'm currently testing the WinPSClient and have found that I also get the same erroneous message with that. This suggests to me the Xymon is icorrectly handling the data from the client. I'm on version 4.3.4 of Xymon Server. I had a look through the release notes for all versions since 4.3.4 and couldn't find any mention of it so I suspect it is still an issue. 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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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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xymonnet - fatal signal caught
by incin＠incin.me 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hello, This is my first post to the mailing list and I was hoping to get some help with an issue I am having. My xymon server has been running great with no issues for months, version xymon-server-4.3.17_3 on FreeBSD10. This morning xymonnet has crashed. Here is the output from the xymonlaunch.log file: 06:45:07 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 06:50:11 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 06:55:11 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 7:00:12 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 07:05:13 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 7:10:14 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 07:20:16 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 Server was rebooted: 07:26:48 xymonlaunch starting 07:26:48 Loading tasklist configuration from (location of file here) 07:26:48 Loading hostnames 07:26:49 Loading saved state 07:26:49 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 07:26:49 Setting up signal handlers 7:26:49 Setting up xymond channels 07:26:49 Setting up logfiles 07:31:02 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 07:36:04 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 7:41:09 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 7:46:11 Task xymonnet terminated by signal 6 Before it started crashing there were no changes (in xymon config files) or updates made. We add new hosts and checks every few days. I checked the other logs for xymon and things looks ok. Other areas of xymon work as well. Maybe I am over looking a log file and missing something obvious of why it keeps crashing. Any thoughts on where to look next? Thank you, --

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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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duration of MSG red status
by nskyrca＠syr.edu 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

Hello, I think this has been asked before, but it was a long time ago and I wondered if something changed since then. How long will the status of MSGS stay red? We just setup monitoring recently and it seems like it stays red for about 30 minutes. Is that normal? Is this configurable? We are running Xymon server 4.2.3. Thanks, Nicole

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devmon mysterious behaviour
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Hello folks, we are running a Xymon 4.3.11 environment that persists of a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 64 Bit. This setup also includes devmon (0.3.1-beta1). In this environment, devmon works like a charm. Now we are in the situation to go away from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and go ahead to Ubuntu 14.0.4.1 LTS 64 Bit. This is an internal decision. On this new environment I have set up Xymon 4.3.17, including devmon, which is the same release as in our "old" environment. But here, I have mysterious problem, for which I cannot find an explanation: In the "old" environment, there is a Cisco 6506, that is "asked" by devmon. For any reason, in this environment devmon doesn't get any data out of this Cisco device. It says "Missing repeater data for primary OID #######" (the "#######" is just an example....). The mysterious thing now is, that in the "new" environment, devmon (some times...) extracts data out of this Cisco device, but -and this is the most confusing thing- every now and then it is changing from "purple" to "clear" (again saying "Missing repeater data for primary OID ####### ".), and on any time it changes back to "green" containing current data. The devmon logfile doesn't seem to contain any hint on this situation. I have really no idea why this could happen. Does anybody of you have an idea about this behavior? Greetings Christian Christian Becker IT-Services Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net> _________________________________ Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH August-Horch-Straße 28 D-56070 Koblenz Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121 Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2 www.rhein-zeitung.de<http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/>

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