October 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Solaris 11 Zones iostat problem
by Nick＠pettefar.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Thanks for all your input. Appreciated. Incidentally, zonename produces either "global" or a zone name so not sure what all the scripting argument is all about. Maybe I lost the plot somewhere or other. [ $(zonename) != "global" ] && [ $(uname -r) = "5.11" ] && echo "Solaris 11 zone, best not use iostat and vmstat." Oracle are looking into why Solaris 11 zones go funny with iostat and vmstat. Nick Dublin

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only to alert after 3 failed tries
by rsimion＠transunion.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi, Is there a way to have Xymon to only alert after the same test failed on a particular node 3 times within a time period? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Rod

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Solaris 11 Zones iostat problem
by Nick＠pettefar.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

We are having problems with our Solaris 11 zones; iostat takes a long time and uses considerable CPU when run on the zones so for the interim we want to disable it. What is the best/easiest way to do this please? (iostat on the global behaves normally.) Regards, Nick Pettefar

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Double, triple notifications
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

For some tests and hosts I receive several notification copies (identical) - sometimes two, sometimes three. I had reviewed the configuration, but can not detect where is the problem. 1) How can I debug which rule worked out for each copy? 2) Feature request - I suppose it should be quite easy to avoid redundant notification copies before sending, for example using cat (rows-list of recepients) | sort | uniq P.S. XyMon version 4.3.17 on CentOS (64-bit) if this makes sense. Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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Not able to start/stop xymon.sh
by aaronrobinson67＠gmail.com 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

Forgive me if this is a stupid question and for my poor linux skills - I'm learning. I have installed xymon on ubuntu using apt-get install xymon and it has started a bunch of process for me as part of the install. It's created a xymon user. When I try and stop the service using xymon.sh stop it tells me I have to do it as the xymon user. As there is no password assigned to the user I can't su as xymon to start and stop the script. I am able to start and stop it using /etc/init.d/xymon start/stop but not sure if I should be doing it this way. Should I be setting my own password on the xymon account and using it to stop and start? Thanks

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Xymon/xMatters?
by Russell.Blumenthal＠stonybrookmedicine.edu 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Has anyone heard/integrated with xMatters for paging, etc? http://www.xmatters.com/

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disable the ping test version 4.3.7
by rsimion＠transunion.com 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Hello, How can I disable the ping test for the whole hosts.cfg file? Thanks in advance.

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Upgrade 4.3.4 to 4.3.17
by neilsimmonds1808＠gmail.com 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Hi all, I've never done this before so I'd appreciate some guidance, I'm looking at upgrading our Xymon test system from 4.3.4 to 4.3.17 on Centos 5.6. Is there anything I need to worry about or should it be a straightforward process? Thanks, Neil.

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Different Timeouts for different tests?
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

On 30 September 2014 06:45, Wilcox, Theodore A -FS <tawilcox at fs.fed.us> wrote: > Is there any way to use separate timeouts for different tests? > It's open source, there's always a way! You can possibly achieve what you want by running two copies of xymonnet with different environments. You could update tasks.cfg to include an extra xymonnet section (with a different name) like so: [xymonnet-20s] ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEEDS xymond CMD HOSTSCFG=$XYMONHOME/etc/hosts-20s.cfg xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timeout=20 LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log INTERVAL 5m This will get its configuration from a different hosts.cfg called hosts-20s.cfg. In this file you would include only the hosts and tests where you want a timeout of 20 seconds. The normal network tests would continue to run, so you'd want to remove those tests from the main hosts.cfg, but leaving the hosts in. > Also, the status of these sites is Red on the Main page or the > AllNonGreen page, but if we drill down and look at the test for that host, > it shows as green. > This might be a delay between updating the host test page to green, and updating the summaries from the previous red state. J

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removing <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] > from custom email script
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Have you tried using FORMAT=SMS on alerts.cfg? Or try this in your script: NEWMSG=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | grep -v '<!--[^>]*>'` J On 03/10/2014 12:19 AM, "usa ims" <usaims at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey Jeremy -- I'm Rod with Boca Raton, Florida USA. > > Thanks for the advice. Is there any way to eliminate that whole line? > > Here is the output of one test: > ### > 10.204.40.148:BobProd red [0] > green > > BIG BROTHER MESSAGE > ------------------- > DATACENTER : D0 > HOSTNAME : 10.x.x.x > STATE : Normal > STATUS : Green > TEST : BobProd EchoTest > RESPONSE SUCCEEDED : 7.628518237 sec > IP : 10.xxx.xxx.xxx > EVENT TIME : Wed 01 Oct 2014 03:35:24 PM EDT > > > See > http://localhost/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=10.204.40.148&SERVICE=BobProd > ### > > It would be nice to eliminate "10.xxx.xxx.xxx:BobProd red [0]" > > >

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