November 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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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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rrd logs and graphs
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hi all Am busy trying to investigate a curious problem with rrd graphs, and I stumbled on something else I don't understand, and was hoping somebody out there could help. As part of my investigation, I added --debug to the [rrdstatus] and [rrddata] entries on the server tasks.cfg And the logs started showing heaps of the message 2014-11-14 10:41:36 Peer not up, flushing message queue What is that? It doesn't look right to me. I might as well explain why I am doing this. I am running an experimental script, zresources.ksh Its supposed to allow me to graph the resources being used by individual zones on Solaris. Here's part of the code $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.zmem green $(date) $OUT " $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zmem $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.mem" ;echo;echo)" $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zcpu $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.cpu" ;echo;echo)" $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zswap $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.swap" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.zmem green $(date) $OUT " echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zmem $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.mem" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zcpu $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.cpu" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zswap $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.swap" ;echo;echo)" cat $TEMPFILE.swap cat $TEMPFILE.cpu cat $TEMPFILE.mem The first 4 lines are "real" and the rest I added for debug. It's supposed to send data containing the zone names, and the amount of resources it's using. global : 293 zone1 : 575 zone2 : 899 zone3 : 754 All good, it makes nice pretty graphs and what have you. And I expect and get rrd files as follows zmem,global.rrd zcpu,global.rrd zswap,global.rrd zmem,zone1.rrd zcpu,zone.rrd zswap,zone1.rrd etc.etc. Except every now and then, I get something like zmem,c2t0d1.rrd I get others too, like zmem,rmt_0 and sometimes even with database SIDs too. And not just for zmem, for zcpu and zswap with about equal frequency. And often, the database SID is not even a database running on that host! I look inside the rrd file, with rrdtool dump, and there will usualy be only a single data point. Looking in the client logs, which contains the output of the debug code above, there is no indication that the client ever sent any data using anything else but the zone names. So where are these spurious data points coming from? Has anybody seen anything like this? Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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BBALPHAMSG Size Truncated
by sgb＠pics.com 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Is there a location to set the max size of BBALPHAMSG? Since upgrading from 4.21 to 4.3.18, email alerts with large $BBALPHAMSG are getting truncated If I output $BBALPHAMSG to a text file named al1.txt and then examine it: Linux word count (wc) shows newline, word, and byte counts wc al1.txt 55 247 4075 al1.txt Thanks Steve

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Xymon 4.3.18 Receiving all status message only from 127.0.0.1 ?!
by maik＠vegasystems.com 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

We have installed Xymon 4.3.18 and I noticed we are receiving all status messages from 127.0.0.1 and not from the client IP?! Why is that? For sure all our clients sending data over their own IP. Maik

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Change event list table layout
by s.fornasiere＠gmail.com 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Hi, I'm changing the layout of Xymon (html ,css and icons) to a better looking and polished experience. I cannot find where is generated the table of events report, I would like to change it's default blue/black color... it's possible that it's coded under some cgi? Thank you. -- Simone Fornasiere

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Client monitoring using customized parameters.
by pbansal2＠fcsltd.com 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Hi Henrik, I want to monitor my AIX client with locally configured monitoring parameters instead of server based parameters. This is required for my AIX servers running with different applications. We have different application mount points with different size and i want to set threshold values for mount points per server wise configured locally. I can see only three files under /xymon/etc folder in my AIX client ; hobbitclient.cfg clientlaunch.cfg localclient.cfg After adding --local in clientlaunch.cfg below parameter, the main web page stop to show any status of CPU,Disk and other monitoring part for this AIX client, [client] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 1m I added the host entry to hobbitclient.cfg and localclient.cfg, even its not showing any alert on server webpage for my AIX 5.2 client(axmnyz). HOST=<axmnyz> UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 60 65 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 Kindly assist me to know the files that need to change on Client and Server side to make it enable and effective. R'gs Prasoon Bansal UNIX Admin

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