February 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Two columns (tests), one graph?
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi everyone. Using two custom external scripts, I have Xymon monitoring and graphing 3 temperatures from one device and 1 additional temperature from another device. Script(s) exist here: http://www.revpol.com/monitortemp Since the script was written to poll one device and up to 4 temperatures on that device, each device represents one column/test in Xymon with 1 or more temperature graphs using splitnvc. I'd like to combine all 4 temperatures on one graph - without rewriting my external script to poll both devices and report all 4 temps in one report if possible. Any hints, ideas? Thanks! -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line --

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Running Custon script on xymon server
by ddschwit＠usgs.gov 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi all, I have six computers that I monitor with xymon. On of these computers is acting as the xymon server. The other five are running the client installation. I have custom monitoring scripts that I want to run on all the computers. I put the scripts in xymon/client/ext and modified clientlaunch.cfg on the five client computers and the script runs and the data is sent to the server. The question is, where do I put the custom scripts in the server installation? I tried putting it in client/ext on the server box, but it is not running. Thanks, -- *Dan Schwitalla* U.S. Geological Survey

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Windows log monitoring
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi all, I want to monitor some windows logs that are named with a date/time stamp using BBWin in central mode. I've tried putting a command in backticks in client-local.cfg ( log:` dir /B D:\Transact\Transact\Server\Logs\*.tr1`:10240 ) but although that command works perfectly in a windows command prompt, I don't get anything monitored. If I hard code the name of the file all works as expected. At the moment I suspect that what I want to do is not possible but I thought I'd check with the mailing list before I go looking in to external scripts to do this. Cheers, Neil. 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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xymon File has MD5 hash (No MD5 data) - should be
by ciprian.parfon＠gmail.com 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello I came to you again, with hope that someone bumped into this problem and could give me some help. I have configured XYmon to check some files with MD5 but it doesn't work as expected. My Xymon server is 4.3.10. On the server I edited 'client-local.cfg' like so [dev] file:/etc/passwd:4736b427730af4ae0d5e11c098be4ff6 file:/etc/shadow:aadf4e9f14a8cceab31d635f9ea5fdb8 Also, I have in analisys.cfg the following entry: HOST=%dev* FILE /etc/passwd MD5=4736b427730af4ae0d5e11c098be4ff6 COLOR=red FILE /etc/shadow MD5=aadf4e9f14a8cceab31d635f9ea5fdb8 COLOR=red On the client: # cat tmp/logfetch.dev.cfg file:/etc/passwd:4736b427730af4ae0d5e11c098be4ff6 file:/etc/shadow:aadf4e9f14a8cceab31d635f9ea5fdb8 The client has all the rights to run 'md5sum' and I also disabled selinux. Any thoughts ? -- Ciprian Parfon System & Network Engineer +40 721879113 ciprian.parfon at gmail.com

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Possible Bug in xymon-client startup script
by ddschwit＠usgs.gov 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi all, Scientific Linux 5.x and 6.x xymon 4.3.13 When you establish a different host name in the file /etc/default/xymon-client than the hostname derived by uname -n, the stop and restart commands do not work. If you set CLIENTHOSTNAME in /etc/default/xymon-client to something other than `uname -n`, when the client starts, it creates a file in the form of clientlaunch."CLIENTHOSTNAME".pid The /etc/init.d/xymon-client (rpm/xymon-client.init) script uses a variable called $DMNOPTS that contains configuration items to form the command line options for xymon. This script uses $DMNOPTS in the call to "runclient.sh start". It does not use $DMNOPTS in the call to "runclient.sh stop". This makes the stop process use `uname -n` to look for the pid file. It does not exist and the client does not get stopped. Fix: Change the following line in rpm/xymon-client.init from: su -c "$DAEMON stop" - xymon to: su -c "$DAEMON $DMNOPTS stop" - xymon It needs to be changed in the call to stop and restart the service. Regards, -- *Dan Schwitalla* U.S. Geological Survey

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4.3.15 is available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Den 03-02-2014 22:45, Gé Janssen skrev: > Is it possible to test the 5.0 setup? I thought I saw a message that it > was downloadeble was, but I can't find a message. It is available in the "trunk" section on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/ Click on the "Download snapshot" button, or use Subversion (svn) to check it out of the source-code system. Regards, Henrik

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headercheck tag?
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hey. The 4.3.14 announcement mentioned a new headercheck tag was added...however, I can't find any doc on how to use it. I've grepped the entire source for "headercheck" in 4.3.15 and it comes back empty. I suspect this may be related to my xymonnet core dumps. =G=

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netstat column and netstat.rrd with german windows
by glauber.ribeiro＠experian.com 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

This may be a good time to consider moving out of BBWin. BBWin seems to be barely supported; I've had problems with it consuming too much memory. There is a new experimental Powershell based client in the Xymon repository, which seems, to me, to work better than BBWin, and since it's all plain text scripts, it should be easier to customize. g From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 17:23 To: Körfer, Thomas Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] netstat column and netstat.rrd with german windows On 31 January 2014 00:05, Körfer, Thomas <t.koerfer at gevasys.de<mailto:t.koerfer at gevasys.de>> wrote: I use bbwin as client: http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ I had a look at the BBWin source code that runs "netstat -s" and it also has English-specific string matches related to detecting and presenting IPv4 vs IPv6 statistics. You might notice that the IPv4 and IPv6 metrics are listed with the same names, so EmpfangenePakete is listed twice, instead of once each for ipEmpfangenePakete and ipv6EmpfangenePakete, whereas on the English version, you see ipPacketsReceived and ipv6PacketsReceived listed separately. For any changes to deal with non-English text to be successful, BBWin would need to be adjusted. As it stands, BBWin effectively filters out the lines related to IPv4/IPv6 ("IPv4 Statistics" etc) when they're not in English, making it very difficult for Xymon to handle these cases. Have you tried renaming the netstat.exe.mui file and see if that helps? Perhaps BBWin could be adjusted to achieve this effect by modifying %SYSTEMROOT% for the execution of netstat. Cheers Jeremy

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Ack not working properly Xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 - upgrade?
by rectifier＠gmail.com 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Thanks Ryan. I have researched and it might not be too much of an issue to upgrade but seems I will have to get past the tricky step of 4.3.0.0 beta2 upwards which involves some Hobbit->Xymon name changing in various files. Perhaps not so tricky. I'll keep reading up. Will have to upgrade. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at ca.rutgers.edu>wrote: > All I can offer is that upgrades are relatively easy, if you're using > RPM's there is almost certainly a newer RPM out there, and that I've never > had problems with acknowledgement really -- my first 4.3 was I think 4.3.7. > > > *From*: Steve B [mailto:rectifier at gmail.com] > *Sent*: Monday, February 03, 2014 10:18 AM > *To*: Xymon at xymon.com <Xymon at xymon.com> > *Subject*: [Xymon] Ack not working properly Xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 - > upgrade? > > Hello, > > Acks are not working for me, typically when Ack'ing 2 of the same things > in a short space of time. But also randomly, Acking stops working. > > I have the 'cookie not found, dropping ack' appearing in hobbitd.log but I > am not sure if this is a result of the Ack module 'crashing' or a direct > cause. I did see some older messages about this and mention of a fix but I > combed through all the release notes for all versions and patches since > 4.3.0 beta 3 until now. > > Note I am using an older version of Xymon, 4.3.0.0 beta2 and I was > wondering if upgrading would fix this. I have never upgraded Xymon before > and I am not sure if it's an easy task or not. > > My fix has been to restart hobbit.sh but this is removing some acks so > it's no longer an option as we have now moved into intensive Ack usage. > > thanks >

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problems in xymonnet
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi all, Today, I do not know why, xymonnet began to no longer work. (4.3.13) This is the error message: 2014-02-03 11:41:55 Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it 2014-02-03 11:41:55 Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it 2014-02-03 11:41:55 Child process terminated with signal 15 All my network test are purple. I have no problem to ping or telnet my monitored hosts This is my task.cfg : CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --trace --test-untagged --timeout=10 --bb-proxy-syntax Any suggestions? thanks Marco

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