October 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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 tawilcox＠fs.fed.us 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

We have hosts that we want to have a short timeout for the tests. However, this doesn't work well with http tests because many web sites take longer to reply. We set the timeout to 1 second. We have started to get red statuses for http tests where the web site is working just fine, but a little slow. Is there any way to use separate timeouts for different tests? 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. I am interpreting this as the timeout causes the test to be given a status of red, but the site eventually responds, so the status for the host is green. This is a little confusing. Ted This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.

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

02 Oct '14

There's probably a better solution to this problem. But you could get by with this: NEWMSG=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | sed 's/ Wed > Oct 1 10:46:24 2014 conn NOT ok > > Service conn on xxxxxxx.corp.local is not OK : Host does not respond to > ping > > > System unreachable for 20 poll periods (5386 seconds) > > &red 5.5.5.5 is unreachable > > ################################################### > > Is there anyway to remove that? Thanks in advance. > > usaims > > > > > > >

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removing <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] > from custom email script
by usaims＠yahoo.com 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Hi, My boss didn't like the subject line of the default email alerts and he asked me to change it. I found a script online that does it -- so I modified the script and the subject line is doing what is expected but the body of the email is displaying some text that I would like not to be displayed. How can I remove the " red [965282] red  Wed Oct 1 10:46:24 2014 conn NOT ok Service conn on xxxxxxx.corp.local is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 20 poll periods (5386 seconds) &red 5.5.5.5 is unreachable ################################################### Is there anyway to remove that? Thanks in advance. usaims

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