May 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

monitoring msgs
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi all. I am really struggling to understand how to monitor msgs in xymon. I have read the man pages over anhd over and nothing I am doing seems to work. In the client I have the following files in ~/client/etc client-local.cfg: log:/var/log/messages:4096 localclient.cfg: LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red The actual msgs report in the xymon web page says " System logs at Fri May 30 10:29:38 BST 2014 : No log data available The client did not report any logfile data " I need a dummies guide to msgs monitoring! If anyone could provide such a beast i would be immensely grateful. cheers Ian

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Xymon v5 readiness
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '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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monitoring msgs
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 30 May '14

30 May '14

This is my hobbit-clients.cfg .. on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg I also have DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 LOG /var/log/messages warn COLOR=red

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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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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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