June 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

xymon server "could not load hostdata" issue
by bogymel＠yahoo.com 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, I'm facing an issue with the xymon server. I have setup a fresh installation of xymon 4.3.17 on a RHEL 6 box. I have only the server defined in hosts.cfg. The main page displays ok, but when I click on a "smiley" it just shows "Cannot load host configuration". In the xymonnet.log I get the following: 2014-06-27 04:24:51 -> Could not connect to Xymon daemon at 10.106.50.129:1984 (Connection refused) 2014-06-27 04:24:51 -> Recipient '10.106.50.129', timeout 15 2014-06-27 04:24:51 -> 1st line: 'extcombo 2000 2291 2617' I also get this in the Apache error_log: [Fri Jun 27 05:01:01 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] 2014-06-27 05:01:01 , referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:01:01 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] -> connect to Xymon daemon at 10.106.50.129:1984 failed (Permission denied), referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:03:31 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] 2014-06-27 05:03:31 , referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:03:31 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] -> Recipient '10.106.50.129', timeout 15, referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:03:31 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] 2014-06-27 05:03:31 , referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:03:31 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] -> 1st line: 'hostinfo clone=watchdog.stage.ppaws.net', referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… [Fri Jun 27 05:03:31 2014] [error] [client 10.106.0.214] 2014-06-27 05:03:31 , referer: http://watchdog.stage.ppaws.net/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=watchdog.stage.… I have setup the host in /etc/hosts file, the name is resolvable, the 1984 port is opened and accepting connections. The only solution I could find online was to restart the server but that didn't help. I'm fairly new to xymon, so if I missed something and if any additional info is required I'll be happy to provide. Thanks.

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wrong pattern in graphs.cfg
by dirk.kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Hi, xymon server 4.3.16 I just discovered a wrong FNPATTERN in graphs.cfg. We wondered, why our mailq graphs from "mailq.rrd" have not been displayed. After replacing the "+" in the mailq section of the graphs.cfg with a "*" it works: [mailq] # This handles "mailq.rrd", "mailqin.rrd" and "mailqout.rrd" - FNPATTERN ^mailq(.+).rrd + FNPATTERN ^mailq(.*).rrd Dirk

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Network2.sh Script
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

Does anyone know where a modern version of the network2.sh Xymon extension script (originally by Paul A. Luzzi) can be found please? The website (www.cookitservices.com) mentioned in our version (3.5, 2005, Craig Cook) no longer exists. We use this to monitor the additional network Regards, Nick Pettefar Fujitsu Dublin :x

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Xymon performance scaling problems for Solaris zones?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi, all... We've been running Xymon (4.3.3 -- yes, old, old, old...) very successfully for the last several years in our environment, but have run into a performance snag recently. We run Xymon on all our Solaris zones -- up to 10 zones + the global zone, at a time. Recently we've started configuring new Oracle LDOMS (64 x SPARC T5-8 processors / LDOM) with > 20 Solaris zones / LDOM and we're seeing that after about 10 zones, Xymon starts to hog CPU in a non-linear way, making the zones unusable. Specifically, it's not any of the "Xymon" daemons, but it's all the concurrent "vmstat" and "iostats" that are racking up the CPU cycles. We understand we have several options available including instantiating processor sets and pools, ulimits, etc, but we wanted to know if: a) Anyone else has had to navigate this problem with such a large number of concurrent *stat commands b) Is it possible / advisable to monitor zones via Xymon using only a single instance of Xymon running in the global zone, or possibly a representative local zone? The LDOMs all run Solaris 11, FWIW. TIA for any tips! david ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman (512) 873-6665

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xymond option --merge-clientlocal and clientupdate
by alex＠bakarasse.de 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hi Henrik, If xymond is started with the "--merge-clientlocal" option and returns more than one clientversion: lines then clientupdate on xymon client not works properly. ////According to the rule "host before class before os" the following modificationof xymonclient.sh would be correct: - SERVERVERSION=`grep "^clientversion:" $LOGFETCHCFG | cut -d: -f2` + SERVERVERSION=`grep "^clientversion:" $LOGFETCHCFG | cut -d: -f2 | head -n1` In the xymond manpage must be also "--merge-clientlocal" instead of "--merge-clientconfig". Thanks Alex

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switch row-column of xymon webpage
by thomas.eckert＠IT-Eckert.de 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi The 'vpage' keyword in hosts.cfg can do this. Example is here: http://xymon.com/xymon/vert/vert.html The hosts.cfg is linked from the "Demo Site" menu. HTH Thomas Am 19.06.2014 06:55 schrieb bai lijiang <bailijiang at gmail.com>: > > Hello XYMon gurus: > > I am new to XYMon and I need your help. We have a requirement that is not too much server to monitor but there is lots of information from that server (more than 200 columns). The webpage is difficult to scroll left-right. So I wonder if there is a way to switch the servers to column and information/data to row? So in this way the webpage will be easy to view since the webpage is easy to scroll up-down. > > Does anyone know how to do this? > > Thanks > > Michael

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switch row-column of xymon webpage
by bailijiang＠gmail.com 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hello XYMon gurus: I am new to XYMon and I need your help. We have a requirement that is not too much server to monitor but there is lots of information from that server (more than 200 columns). The webpage is difficult to scroll left-right. So I wonder if there is a way to switch the servers to column and information/data to row? So in this way the webpage will be easy to view since the webpage is easy to scroll up-down. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks Michael

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Nothing showing except CONN for one host
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

I have a single host that won’t show anything but the CONN column on the display page for it. It is running a client, but nothing is being populated on the server end. I have many, many other clients installed, some in this same location and on the same network. Normally this might be a short name vs FQDN name in bb-hosts, but I have both the short and fqdn in the file currently. I am running an older version of Xymon 4.2 still, but again no issue with other hosts. Any other idea what might be causing the DISPLAY not to be populated? Thanks

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stop monitoring "maint"
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

running an ancient version of xymon - 4.2.3 - in the mode where the client sends the monitored info back to the server via a client process running on the monitored server. How can we stop "maint" monitoing, or at least the reporting of the maint reports? cheers Ian

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"procs" monitoring
by sidiney＠redix.com.br 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Hi all, I have a problem and i'm unable to resolve . Under " PROCS " , sometimes the Xymon just not sending the message completely , as follows: Problem situation : Accuse as if they were not running , and the list of processes does not come entirely. Wed Mar 12 09:46:48 EDT 2014 - Processes NOT ok green udevd (found 3 , req . 1 or more) green sshd (found 1 , req . 1 or more) green master ( found 1 , req . 1 or more) green crond (found 1 , req . 1 or more) red clamd (found 0 , req . 1 or more) green amavisd (found 3 , req . 1 or more) red xinetd (found 0 , req . 1 or more) red slapd (found 0 , req . 1 or more) green rsyslogd (found 1 , req . 1 or more) green ntpd (found 1 , req . 1 or more) USER PID PPID PRI STARTED S % CPU % MEM TIME RSZ VSZ CMD Oct 03 1 0 root S 19 0.0 00:00:07 0.0 1396 19352 / sbin / init Postfix 08:34:26 453 21763 S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 5376 98228 smtpd -n [ 127.0.0.1 ] : 10025 - t inet - u-o content_filter = -o = -o local_recipient_maps virtual_mailbox_maps = virtual_alias_maps = -o it relay_recipient_maps smtpd_restriction_classes = it = it = in - the smtpd_delay_reject smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks , reject it smtpd_data_restrictions smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions = it = it = it smtpd_helo_restrictions smtpd_milters smtpd_sender_restrictions = it = it = in - the smtpd_reject_unlisted_sender smtpd_relay_restrictions = - the smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks , reject- the mynetworks_style = host mynetworks = 127.0.0.0 -o / 8 , [ :: 1 ] / 128 = yes it strict_rfc821_envelopes it smtpd_error_sleep_time = 0 it smtpd_soft_error_limit = 1001 = 1000 it smtpd_hard_error_limit it smtpd_client_connection_count_limit = 0 = 0 it smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit it receive_override_options = no_header_body_checks , no_unknown_recipient_checks , no_address_mappings it local_header_rewrite_clients = it = syslog_name postfix / amavisd Postfix 09:39:49 553 21763 S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 3300 51276 smtp- t unix - u Oct 03 558 1 root S 23 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 316 10908 / sbin / udevd - d Oct 03 988 558 root S 21 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 336 10904 / sbin / udevd - d 03 Oct 1430 1 root S 19 0.0 0.0 3344 185132 01:57:04 / usr / sbin / vmtoolsd 03 Oct 1547 1 root S 19 0.0 02:30:58 0.0 6068 256212 / sbin / rsyslogd -i / var / run / c - syslogd.pid 5 03 Oct 1595 1 root S 19 0.0 00:01:35 0.0 1288 452264 automount - pid - file / var / run / autofs.pid 03 Oct 1616 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:07 0.0 616 66252 / usr / sbin / sshd Ntp 03 Oct 1632 1 S 19 0.0 00:00:12 0.0 1132 25936 ntpd - u ntp : ntp - p / var / run / ntpd.pid - g 03 Oct 1687 1 root S 19 0.0 00:03:08 0.0 784 117280 crond Postfix 09:07:23 1731 21763 S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 6240 100456 465 smtpd -n - t inet - u - stress = -o content_filter = scan : [ 127.0.0.1 ] : 10030 -o = yes smtpd_tls_wrappermode it smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes it smtpd_client_restrictions = it = smtpd_data_restrictions it smtpd_helo_restrictions = it = smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated smtpd_relay_restrictions it , reject it syslog_name = postfix / smtps it milter_macro_daemon_name = ORIGINATING 03 Oct 1749 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:01 0.0 544 100924 rhnsd Zimbra Mar 1761 30637 07 S 19 0.1 00:07:51 0.1 26904 784316 / opt / zimbra / opendkim / sbin / opendkim -x / opt / zimbra / conf / opendkim.conf - u zimbra 03 Oct 1793 1 root S 19 0.0 0.0 492 103888 00:00:00 / usr / bin / rhsmcertd Zimbra Mar 1 3534 10 S 19 0.0 00:00:19 0.6 100476 217852 / opt / zimbra / amavisd / sbin / amavisd ( master) 03 Oct 4469 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty1 03 Oct 4499 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty2 03 Oct 4504 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty3 03 Oct 4509 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty4 Oct 03 4515 558 root S 21 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 328 10904 / sbin / udevd - d 03 Oct 4546 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty5 03 Oct 4560 1 root S 19 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 464 4060 / sbin / mingetty / dev/tty6 Has anyone experienced this and know how to treat?

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