February 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Cisco ASR1000 template for Devmon
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Anybody have a template for an ASR1000 for devmon? Paul Root Lead Engineer CenturyLink Network Reliability Operations Center 600 Stinson Blvd, N.E. Flr 2N Minneapolis, MN 55413 Direct: (651)312-5207 Paul.Root at centurylink.com

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Openfiler
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi Malcom, Sorry about the delay in replying. I didn't see your message until now. I've altered my rules to try and help in the future. I did update several components of Openfiler recently, so although rPath may be dieing and Openfiler may be moving to CentOS, I think this procedure should still work... It does not look like I edited these, but anyway: My /etc/conaryrc: installLabelPath openfileresa.rpath.org at esa:openfileresa-3.0 pinTroves (kernel|linux-image-2\.6\.[0-9]+-[0-9]+(-[a-z]+)?)([:-].*|$) includeConfigFile /etc/conary/config.d/* My /etc/conary/config.d/openfiler: installLabelPath <mailto:openfileresa.rpath.org at esa:openfileresa-3.0> openfileresa.rpath.org at esa:openfileresa-3.0 <mailto:foresight.rpath.org at fl:2-qa> foresight.rpath.org at fl:2-qa <mailto:conary.rpath.com at rpl:2> conary.rpath.com at rpl:2 autoResolve True Sadly, the crucial part of what I did has gone out of my history now and my PuTTY logs are a little unclear, but it looks like I did something like: # conary update gcc # conary update python ## not required for xymon, was for the script I was going to write # conary update libtool # conary update glib # conary update automake # conary update autoconf # conary update pkgconfig # conary update subversion Now you probably have enough to build xymon-client, but as an example I'll include the next line (the next thing I did) where I specified the repository because it was not in the default repositories: # conary update freetds=foresight.rpath.org at fl:2-devel/1-1-1 And now we can build xymon-client like so (I probably should have done more as the xymon user, but hey): # useradd xymon # cd /home # cd xymon/ # svn co https://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xymon/trunk xymon-trunk # chown -R xymon:xymon xymon-trunk # cd xymon-trunk/ # ./configure --client # make # chown -R xymon:xymon * # make install # su xymon # /home/xymon/client/runclient.sh start Bear in mind that the procedure for building xymon-client has changed recently I think, so you will need to check that. Oh, and of course you need to configure some xymon conf files! Hope this helps, but if you really need the binaries, I could find some way to upload and share them... Kind regards, Sebastian _____ From: Malcolm Hunter [mailto:malcolm.hunter at gmx.com] Sent: 30 January 2014 12:31 To: SebA; 'Ralph Mitchell' Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Openfiler Hi SebA rPath is pretty much dead now so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the components I need to build. If you have the Xymon binaries, they'll probably work as the OS base for OF is pretty static. Thanks Malcolm Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On 29 January 2014 11:42:32 "SebA" <spah at syntec.co.uk> wrote: I compiled xymon-client on Openfiler to get the drbd client plug-in working. However it was ages ago and I can't remember how I did it. I know I created a xymon user, installed svn, checked-out xymon-trunk, installed a compiler and other build tools and compiled and installed the client. I think some things were available from the Openfiler respositories and some I had to get from other similar rPath Linux repositories. It was quite a work-up! Let me know if you want to go down this route instead of xymon-rclient and I'll see if I can get further info. Kind regards, SebA _____ From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell Sent: 25 January 2014 23:01 To: Malcolm Hunter Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Openfiler You don't actually need to compile anything. If you can ssh to the Openfiler with ssh keys, you should be able to use this: http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/ Ralph Mitchell On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter at gmx.com> wrote: Hi, Does anyone have Xymon client running on Openfiler? I have no idea how to get the prerequisites to compile it on the appliance and my CentOS built client doesn't start. Thanks Malcolm Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/ <http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon> mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Xymond crashing when scheduling disable in 4.3.15
by Johan.Sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hi. We recently updated our Xymon installation to 4.3.15. Now it seems like we cannot schedule disable from the "Enable/disable" page. We get this error in the xymond.log: 2014-02-17 12:40:28 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2014-02-17 12:40:28 -> 2014-02-17 12:40:28 -> Recipient 'x.x.x.x', timeout 15 2014-02-17 12:40:28 -> 1st line: 'status mon01.xymond red - Program crashed' This is the output from gdb. Don't know if it tells you anything? mon01:/usr/local/xymon/server# gdb bin/xymond tmp/core GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymond...done. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.3 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Core was generated by `xymond --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/xymond.pid --restart=/usr/local/xymon/server/tm'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007f12064c71b5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 Johan Sjöberg Delta Management AB Tulegatan 30 113 53 Stockholm Sweden Phone: +46 8 501 125 09 Cell: +46 70 751 99 17 Support: +46 8 501 125 18 support at deltamanagement.se <mailto:support at deltamanagement.se>www.deltamanagement.se<http://www.deltamanagement.se/> [http://www.deltamanagement.se/images/mailfooter_delta.gif] [http://www.deltamanagement.se/images/climatecare_small.gif] Koldioxidneutral IT-drift El, kontorsvärme och tjänsteresor kompenseras med hjälp av ClimateCare

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NetBSD inode test patches
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=48575 has what I'm using in the package on NetBSD. I've also attached them. Tracy

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Fun with metrics: can I get an alert recipient programmatically ?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

I'm working on metrics to track our response time to yellow alerts. I can get the current state of the yellows on the board with /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondboard color=yellow fields=hostname,testname ,color,lastchange,acktime This will tell me f I have an un-acked yellow, and I know how long it's been yellow. Now I want to sort these out by which group gets the alerts. One way to find out is: /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymond_alert --test $hostname $testname --color=$color --duration=$duration |grep "Mail alert" and then parse the result for the destination group. But is there a way I can get that information directly from xymon? Or is it stored in some deep memory structure? Just curious, it'd be cleaner code if the info can come from a query thanks Betsy (wishing it were easier to correlate ack info with color change info, the acklogs are in a separate space and format from the colors)

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Xymon nmap integrstion/plugin
by mate33＠ymail.com 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hello Is there any way to integrate nmap or similar program into xymon web page. What I would like is to scan the network with nmap then write all the host into xymon for monitoring.(from xymon web page) May to do a security check with nmap every day to see if someone taped into the network and make an alarm in xymon. Thanks for all your help guys, Best regards, Mate

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FILES in analysis.cfg
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hi, I started monitoring some files. I can't really understand how this works. Xymon 4.3.10 on Solaris 10 client-local.cfg: [sunos] file:`ls -1 /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-*` analysis.cfg: HOST=myhost FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost red MTIME<3700 FILE /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-testing red MTIME<3700 On myhost I got a file /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-myhost but /var/tmp/sys-heartbeat-testing is missing (for testing) If sys-heartbeat-myhost is older than 3700 second the files test goes red. If sys-heartbeat-testing doesn't exist nothing happens at all. The sys-heartbeat-testing line does not show up on the test but sys-heartbeat-myhost does. Clicking on the sys-heartbeat-myhost shows me all the file data. The syntax in the manual states. FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK] noexist triggers a warning if the file exists. By default, a warning is triggered for files that have a FILE entry, but which do not exist. That should mean that if the file doesn't exist it should go red. In the examples in analysis.cfg the color is in another spot. # Example: Check that the /var/log/messages file is not empty and was updated # within the past 10 minutes, and go yellow if either fails: # FILE /var/log/messages SIZE>0 MTIME<600 yellow I guess that is just a typo. I have tried both and it seems it doesn't matter. What am I doing wrong? - Roland Soderstrrom

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spoofed IP's in hosts.cfg
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

I use xymon to monitor not only servers but also many specific URL's through ports that we host for various purposes. Some of the things I monitor are behind multiple NAT firewalls and the IP's of the hosts are not only irrelevant but not forwarded through my firewall and thus not needed to be in my hosts.cfg file which is not on my local network. I did some searching and saw that I could enter 0.0.0.0 for the IP's, but now my hosts.cfg file doesn't work. What can I enter as the IP's for hosts in my hosts.cfg file when I don't want the IP's specified? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer

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PfSense firewall client
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

I've got some PfSense firewalls that I would love to have running with xymon client. Anyone have a step-by-step guide to get this working? PfSense is BSD. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer

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MACHINEDOTS setting not working
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

I've got a client Ubuntu machine setup with the MACHINEDOTS setting in it's cfg file but it's stats are getting ignored by the server. The only way I can get the stats to show up on the server side for this client is to add the CLIENT:hostname setting in the server's hosts.cfg file. Any idea why the MACHINEDOTS way of doing it doesn't seem to work? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer

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