May 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Disable Single Test after Hours
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hi all I have a host, running an HTTP server. We need to monitor the host, 24x7, but the HTTP test goes down overnight for regular updates, or refueling or something. Ours not reason why.... I want to disable just the HTTP test after hours.. And before you say I should put a TIME entry in alerts.cfg, it's not that simple. Every morning, a remote co-worker, looks at the EvenLog Report, and generates an "Incident Report" for the PHBs. The alerts.cfg entry simply stops the alerts from going out. The test still goes red, and shows up as an event. You might think he could exclude the host in the appropriate exclude field, but there are other aspects of the host that need to be monitored, and included in the report. We could exclude HTTP from the report, but we have other hosts running HTTP services that must remain up, and need to be in the report too. So how to disable a single HTTP test for a specific time period, on a single server so it doesn't generate events? Alternatively, leave a single host:test combo out of the EventLog report. Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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Xymon v5 readiness
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 30 May '14

30 May '14

Henrik I'm working on the imminent deployment of some new monitoring servers, perhaps within the next 2 months. For this roll-out, IPv6 is on the list of highly-desirable features. While Xymon v4.x has an extensive feature list, I'm prepared to live with more basic functionality for some time, if it's reliable enough on the core features (disk/mem/cpu client reporting to central mode servers, ping and some simple network tests). If we can bring online a range of more advance features that are present in 4.x, in the next 6 months, then that would be acceptable. As we'll have redundant (independent) Xymon servers, we'll be able to do some beta testing on one of the servers. Would you recommend I stick with v4.x, or is the v5.x (trunk) reliable enough in its core feature set to be worth a little extra potential pain for a little while? Or perhaps hedge bets and use v5.x on only one of the Xymon servers? Can anyone report on their experiences with v5.x? Cheers Jeremy

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customize column order
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Is there a way to customize the column order so it's not alphabetical? Kris Springer

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clickable page titles?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Ok, I finally found out where to add the xymongen customizations. It's in tasks.cfg under the [xymongen] section. The man page doesn't say that's where to add all the customizations that it lists. :-\ Kris -----Original Message----- From: Mike Burger [mailto:mburger at bubbanfriends.org] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:59 AM To: kspringer at innovateteam.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] clickable page titles? On 2014-05-29 1:50 pm, Kris Springer wrote: > Is there any way to make page titles defined in hosts.cfg clickable > links? > > KRIS SPRINGER__ I believe that you'll want to investigate the --pagetitle-links option for xymongen. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

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Specifying Page and Sub-Page Titles of Xymon Web Pages
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hi, is there a way of specifying a title, other than "Xymon", for pages and sub-pages? We have lots of pages and sub-pages and it would be great to be able to easily see which is which. Nick Pettefar Dublin

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Notification via SMS
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

I currently send Xymon alerts to internal email addresses and to the cell carrier's email-to-SMS gateway (e.g. 2125551212 at vtext.com) It works great until the mail gateway or the Internet feed are down. So, I want to send alerts/notices via SMS without relying on email or my Internet connection. What are cell card/stick/phone and software are you currently using to send SMS notification? Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com

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clickable page titles?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Is there any way to make page titles defined in hosts.cfg clickable links? Kris Springer

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enable/disable fail
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hello, Once upon a time I was able to drill down to a page with a red alert, select the "Enable/Disable" link from the "Administration" drop down and it would select just the alerts that were on that page. However, when I attempt it now, it gives me a 504 Gateway timeout error and the apache logs show a malloc error. [Tue May 27 14:56:14 2014] [error] [client 10.40.1.39] *** glibc detected *** /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/acknowledge.cgi: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00000000008462f0 ***, referer: https://pbrmon.unx.sas.com/xymon/AdRaD/cassandra/cassandra.html Pretty sure this used to work... Any ideas? I haven't tried it yet but I'm going to try setting my server back to a monolithic hosts.cfg file and see if that helps since it seems to work if I do the same thing from the main view. That is the only recent change I can think of (aside from upgrading to 4.3.17). =G=

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(DTS) Still trying to setup Xymon 4.3.17 on CentOS 6.5 - trouble with Apache Config
by dtsmon＠gmail.com 29 May '14

29 May '14

Tom Schmitt (dtsmon at gmail.com) 27May2014 information (in c:\date\xymon-installation.txt) My process for loading the system -- (Still fails on Apache access) Freshly reloaded 64-bit Dell T105 server with CentOS 6.5 and related utilities following: System Monitoring with Xymon/Administration Guide/Compiling on CentOS - Wikibook at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sstem_monitoring_withXymon/Administration_Guid… ... XYMON was installed in /home/xymon home directory. The only changes were to use CentOS 6.5 and the latest Xymon 4.3.17 The only item that was not available for downloading was the line: wget http://iam8up.com/xymon-initd/xymon to have the startup in level 3. The file was not found on the Internet ... Changes: What I had to do instead: cp /home/xymon/xymon-4.3.17/rpm/xymon-init.d /etc/init.d/xymon Also a change was made to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file from the remarks in the file: Original comments in the file: # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> Changed to: [root at t105 conf]# diff httpd.conf httpd.conf.tom 317c317 < <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> --- > <Directory "/var/www/html"> 1104a1105 > [root at t105 conf]# 1.) Clear out the logs in /var/log/httpd cd /var/log/httpd >access_log >error_log 2.) reboot server with Apache 2.2.15 "httpd -v" 3.) Steps followed after reboot: 3A.) Login from SSH to print the enclosed information 3B.) http://<server-ip> The Apache test page comes up 3C). http://<server-ip>/xymon/ The index of /xymon is displayed with: parent directory, gifs help html menu notes rep robots.txt snap wml 3D). http://<server-ip>/xymon I get a not found 404 error message NOTE: I never do get the "helo" message when accessing ??? 4.) Log information from steps 3B -> 3D follows: Initial file information: [root at t105 ~]# cd /var/log/httpd [root at t105 httpd]# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 81 May 27 10:29 access_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 644 May 27 10:29 error_log [root at t105 httpd]# cat access_log 192.168.200.1 - - [27/May/2014:10:29:24 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 5039 "-" "-" [root at t105 httpd]# cat error_log [Tue May 27 10:27:51 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Tue May 27 10:29:13 2014] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 [Tue May 27 10:29:13 2014] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Tue May 27 10:29:13 2014] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue May 27 10:29:13 2014] [notice] Digest: done [Tue May 27 10:29:13 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue May 27 10:29:24 2014] [error] [client 192.168.200.1] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/xymon/server/www/ [root at t105 httpd]# After accessing http://<server-ip> to bring up the Apache 2 Test Page powered by CentOS Just the additional lines in each file are: [root at t105 httpd]# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1090 May 27 10:49 access_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 775 May 27 10:49 error_log [root at t105 httpd]# cat access_log 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:49:41 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 5039 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:49:42 -0400] "GET /icons/apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:49:42 -0400] "GET /icons/poweredby.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" [root at t105 httpd]# cat error_log [Tue May 27 10:49:41 2014] [error] [client 192.168.200.23] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/xymon/server/www/ [root at t105 httpd]# After accessing http://<server-ip>/xymon/ and getting the Index of files of /xymon Index of /xymon Name Last modified Size Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parent Directory - gifs/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - help/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - html/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - menu/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - notes/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - rep/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - robots.txt 09-May-2014 17:05 26 snap/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - wml/ 09-May-2014 15:01 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/2 Server at 192.168.200.151 Port 80 Just the additional lines in each file are: [root at t105 httpd]# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3131 May 27 10:55 access_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 890 May 27 10:55 error_log [root at t105 httpd]# cat access_log 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /xymon/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2421 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /icons/blank.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/xymon/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /icons/back.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/xymon/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /icons/folder.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/xymon/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /icons/text.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://192.168.200.151/xymon/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:10:55:29 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 276 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" [root at t105 httpd]# cat error_log [Tue May 27 10:55:29 2014] [error] [client 192.168.200.23] File does not exist: /home/xymon/server/www/favicon.ico [root at t105 httpd]# After accessing http://<server-ip>/xymon to try to bring up the xymon main page: HTTP 404 Web Page Not Found The webpage cannot be found HTTP 404 Most likely causes: There might be a typing error in the address. If you clicked on a link, it may be out of date. What you can try: Retype the address. Go back to the previous page. Go to and look for the information you want. More information This error (HTTP 404 Not Found) means that Internet Explorer was able to connect to the website, but the page you wanted was not found. It's possible that the webpage is temporarily unavailable. Alternatively, the website might have changed or removed the webpage. For more information about HTTP errors, see Help. Just the additional lines in each file are: [root at t105 httpd]# ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3446 May 27 11:03 access_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 999 May 27 11:03 error_log [root at t105 httpd]# cat access_log 192.168.200.23 - - [27/May/2014:11:03:58 -0400] "GET /xymon HTTP/1.1" 404 270 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB7.5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; 798808333803; Service 3.00302)" [root at t105 httpd]# cat error_log [Tue May 27 11:03:58 2014] [error] [client 192.168.200.23] File does not exist: /home/xymon/server/www/xymon [root at t105 httpd]# FYI: I have checked all the setup items in the document more that once and tried a complete re-install of server, etc. more that once. The permissions on the /home/xymon directory seem to be correctL [root at t105 conf]# cd /home [root at t105 home]# ls -l total 20 drwx------. 2 root root 16384 May 9 13:50 lost+found drwxr-xr-x. 8 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 xymon [root at t105 home]# ls -l xymon total 5424 drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 cgi-secure drwxr-xr-x. 8 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 client drwxr-xr-x. 10 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 data drwxr-xr-x. 9 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 server drwxr-xr-x. 16 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 14:56 xymon-4.3.17 -rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon xymon 2772765 Feb 23 11:17 xymon-4.3.17.tar.gz [root at t105 home]# The index listing of /xymon matches the following info: [root at t105 www]# pwd /home/xymon/server/www [root at t105 www]# ls -l total 36 drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 gifs drwxr-xr-x. 3 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 help drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 html drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 menu drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 notes drwxrwxr-x. 2 xymon apache 4096 May 9 15:01 rep -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 26 May 9 17:05 robots.txt drwxrwxr-x. 2 xymon apache 4096 May 9 15:01 snap drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 May 9 15:01 wml [root at t105 www]# I know that I have something setup incorrect, but for the life of me, I cannot find it! Any assistance will be greatly appreciated - this has been going on for me for months. My older setups never seemed to have any problem like this. If you would like me to send you the httpd.conf file I will. Thanks TomS

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bbwin for windows 2012 R2
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi all, Finally the agent work fine. Then, firewall even if is off, need to get access for bbwin. Thanks to all. David From: Claessens Jurgen [mailto:Jurgen.Claessens at cegeka.be] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 1:36 PM To: Raymond, David Subject: RE: bbwin for windows 2012 R2 Hi David, First check the log files on te server to see if it even loaded all the modules ok. If that is ok, then check if you can reach the xymon server from there and if you have no gost reports on xymon page. Regards From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Raymond, David Sent: vrijdag 16 mei 2014 14:42 To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: [Xymon] bbwin for windows 2012 R2 Hi All, I try to install BBwin 0.13 on Windows 2012 R2 server. The installation is fine, but when I start the service, le client bbwin.exe do nothing. I try the compatibility mode, run as admin, run service as..., bbwin 0.12. None of these work. If one of you have a suggestion, it's welcome. Regards, David Raymond This e-mail and all files transmitted as attachment(s) thereto are confidential and solely intended for the individual to whom or the organization to which they are addressed. If you received this e-mail by mistake, please notify Cegeka's Service Desk at cegeka.support at cegeka.be<mailto:cegeka.support at cegeka.be> or call +32 (0)11 240 363. We thank you in advance. Cegeka hereby confirms that this message has been swept by Sophos for the presence of viruses.

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