June 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

xymon web interface
by bb4＠richter-it.net 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm.. if you have /home/xymon/server/www and it looks for /home/xymon/server/www/server then there might be something wrong in your xymonserver.cfg as the the apache.conf you've posted earlier seems to be ok except for that double "<Directory /var/www/*> ..." entry. Can you take a look at your xymonserver.cfg and check for XYMONSERVERWWWURL, XYMONWEBHOSTURL and XYMONWEB and what values they have? On 12.06.2014 22:10, warrenp wrote: > Perfect > I have these erros, none of those directories exist, what should those > directories have? I have /home/xymon/server/www and nothing in /var/www. > File does not exist: /home/xymon/server/www/server > does not exist: /var/www/xymon > > Thanks > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote: > > These messages are quite normal after restarting the XYmon server. > The interesting part would be the error log of your apache web server. > > Cheers > Torsten > > On 12.06.2014 21:50, warrenp wrote: >>>> Yes, I restarted everything after adding that. >>>> Looking at the logs (var/log/xymon) I see a couple of errors, for > example: >>>> clientdata.log: >>>> 2014-06-10 16:44:19 Peer not up, flushing message queue >>>> history.log: >>>> 2014-06-10 16:44:13 Peer not up, flushing message queue >>>> hostdata.log: >>>> 2014-06-10 16:49:08 Peer not up, flushing message queue >>>> >>>> I have no clue of how to get the web interface up. >>>> I've tried to google this but I can't find anything. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> > wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> dumb question: Did you restart your web server after adding this to your >>>> config? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Torsten >>>> >>>> On 10.06.2014 23:07, warrenp wrote: >>>>>>> I have succesfully installed Xymon, but just couldn't get the web >>>> interface >>>>>>> working. I have included this in apache.conf: (any ideas what i'm >>>>>>> missing??) Thanks for the help! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Alias /xymon/ "/home/xymon/server/www/" >>>>>>> <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> >>>>>>> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews >>>>>>> Order allow,deny >>>>>>> Allow from all >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" >>>>>>> <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> >>>>>>> AllowOverride None >>>>>>> Options ExecCGI Includes >>>>>>> Order allow,deny >>>>>>> Allow from all >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <Directory /var/www/*> >>>>>>> Options +ExecCGI >>>>>>> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" >>>>>>> <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> >>>>>>> AllowOverride None >>>>>>> Options ExecCGI Includes >>>>>>> Order allow,deny >>>>>>> Allow from all >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <Directory /var/www/*> >>>>>>> Options +ExecCGI >>>>>>> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-secure/" >>>>>>> <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-secure"> >>>>>>> AllowOverride None >>>>>>> Options ExecCGI Includes >>>>>>> Order allow,deny >>>>>>> Allow from all >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. >>>>>>> # Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd >>>>>>> USERNAME" >>>>>>> # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd >>>>>>> /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME" >>>>>>> # >>>>>>> # You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to > members >>>> of a >>>>>>> # group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must >>>> setup >>>>>>> # the "xymongroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to >>>> require >>>>>>> # a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more > details. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> AuthUserFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd >>>>>>> AuthGroupFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymongroups >>>>>>> AuthType Basic >>>>>>> AuthName "Xymon Administration" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in. >>>>>>> Require valid-user >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND >>>>>>> # are members of the "admins" group in xymongroups. >>>>>>> # Require group admins >>>>>>> >>>>>>> </Directory> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Xymon mailing list >>>>>>> Xymon at xymon.com >>>>>>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> > >> > - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?search=0x899093AC&op=get -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlOa6loACgkQ7DlmxomQk6ymVACgnRVUyGWwRCAUqEVzv8RAUCQi frMAoNqOAJntjeM3X92Ajd+TG3H3qLO2 =mQzS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Code and Trunk.
by hsteinhauer＠fs.fed.us 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

I was looking at the code / Trunk information and saw that there is activity on the code. 1 . Is there a discussion group that would give information about the progress of the different trunk and tree? In the Branches I see the different releases and the date of reference. Release 4.3.17 Date of 2014-02-23. Release 4.3.18 is appears to be in progress and active with a date of 2014-05-04 2. - Is there a plan to finish this release soon? 3 - I had some questions also about the msgcache.c process. 3a. - Is this something that can run on a Windows system? 3b. - Or should we have a Unix system in our Windows sub-net to collect the Windows Client information to pass onto a general server? 3c. - What have others done? This is a great collection system. Thanks for any guidance. Henry Henry Steinhauer ITIL v3 / Glacier Technologies, LLC USDA Forest Service / Integration Lab Project hsteinhauer at fs.fed.us<mailto:hsteinhauer at fs.fed.us> (505) 750-4672 (google voice) This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.

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Entry in combo.cfg: result of combo-test is OK, but there's a broken graph in the test
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

Hello, i've the following in my combo.cfg: Config-Cluster.watchguard.proxy = (watchguard\-1.proxy) && (watchguard\-2.proxy) Config-Cluster.watchguard.smtp = (watchguard\-1.smtp) && (watchguard\-2.smtp) ...and the following in my hosts.cfg: 0.0.0.0 Config-Cluster.watchguard # noconn The results which are displayed in the columns "proxy" and "smtp" of the host "Config-cluster-watchguard" are as expected and OK. But at the bottom of the page there are broken graphs that don't get displayed. Since I don't need those graphs - how can I delete them or configure Xymon the way they don't come into that page? Regards Christian CHRISTIAN BECKER System Engineer CSC ________________________________ CSC * This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose * CSC Deutschland Services GmbH * Registered Office: Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany * Board of Directors: Thomas Nebe, Peter Schmidt * Registered in Germany: HRB 7574, Wiesbaden

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xymon web interface
by crmade＠gmail.com 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

I have succesfully installed Xymon, but just couldn't get the web interface working. I have included this in apache.conf: (any ideas what i'm missing??) Thanks for the help! Alias /xymon/ "/home/xymon/server/www/" <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/*> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/*> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME" # # You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a # group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup # the "xymongroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require # a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details. AuthUserFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd AuthGroupFile /home/xymon/server/etc/xymongroups AuthType Basic AuthName "Xymon Administration" # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in. Require valid-user # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND # are members of the "admins" group in xymongroups. # Require group admins </Directory>

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PAGE match and group-only
by david＠basis.is 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Hi all, Consider the following hosts.cfg: page testpage1 Test page 1 group-only test1 0.0.0.0 testserver page testpage2 Test page 2 group-only test2 0.0.0.0 testserver page hostdefs Host definitions 10.100.252.1 testserver # prefer And alerts.cfg: PAGE=testpage1 COLOR=red DURATION>5 $ALERT_TYPE_1 PAGE=testpage2 COLOR=red DURATION>5 $ALERT_TYPE_2 I would expect xymon to alert with $ALERT_TYPE_1 when testserver.test1 goes red. What actually happens is that sometimes $ALERT_TYPE_2 gets triggered as well, even though test1 does not appear on the page testpage2. Anyone has any ideas? I'm guessing this is a bug in xymon, just want to see if anyone has patches or a workaround. -- Bestu kveðjur / Best regards Davíð Steinn Geirsson Basis ehf | Síðumúli 32 | (+354) 575-0400

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

12 Jun '14

I treied to find the version of xymon but cioldn;t find anythuing obvuious - apologies. That entry is in hobbit-clients.cfg already ________________________________ From: "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:17 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs Ah, you have a very old version of xymon running then. In the future, let us know what version you are running. So, I can’t remember which file it is. How soon we forget. It must be hobbit-clients.cfg is the old name for analysis.cfg. Paul. From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 10:12 AM To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs hmmm... I have nio analysis.cfg! 9which is possibly why its not working!) here's the contents of the xymon server server/etc directory $ ls bbcombotest.cfg bbwarnrules.cfg columndoc.csv hobbit-alerts.cfg hobbit-clients.cfg hobbit-nkview.cfg hobbitserver.cfg hobbit-apache.conf hobbitgraph.cfg bb-services client-local.cfg getw.cfg hobbitcgi.cfg hobbitlaunch.cfg hobbitpasswd cheers. didds ________________________________ From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 15:31 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs This is the file you want to monitor and what you want to monitor. From:Ian Diddams [mailto:didds3 at yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:26 AM To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring msgs sorry paul - when you say "So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server." what is "this" cheers didds ________________________________ From:"Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com> To: 'Ian Diddams' <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon at xymon.com'" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:40 Subject: RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs Is your xymon setup in central mode or local mode? By default xymon is setup in central mode. So you’d want this in the client-local.cfg and the analysis.cfg on the server. From:Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ian Diddams Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 4:44 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] monitoring msgs 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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When Xymon is offline
by lists＠benjamindsmith.com 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

We have a xymon server hosted on a local (dev office) server so that we can monitor our servers "from outside" - as customers would see things. Generally, it works great. However, the office connection, being a business class cable Internet, does experience some downtime, and when it comes back online, my phone is deluged with messages about the sky falling and all our services being down. Is there a way for xymon to detect that it's off line and not send hundreds of alerts? Ideal would be to have 3 or more xymon server instances in a distributed wan cluster, and only generate alerts when a quorum of >50% has been achieved. Is this possible? Thanks, Ben

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alert IGNORE question
by KVerMeer＠peoplenetonline.com 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Thanks again. I should be able to verify the results tonight. From: Root, Paul T [mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:37 AM To: Kevin VerMeer; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: RE: alert IGNORE question Oh sorry, didn't look at that. You want the *:2345:0245 From: Kevin VerMeer [mailto:KVerMeer at peoplenetonline.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:35 AM To: Root, Paul T; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: RE: alert IGNORE question Thanks. Any idea on the error message? Is "TIME=2345:0245" valid? That seems to be what the error message is complaining about. Maybe I need the day-of-week specified? Is 1-7: 2345:0245 or *:2345:0245 the right format? I have not been able to find that. From: Root, Paul T [mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:08 AM To: Kevin VerMeer; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: RE: alert IGNORE question I'm going to guess on question one. I'd say it would be the servers time, since the evaluation is going on on the server. For the second question, no, you don't need 2. Ignore time wraps around. Paul. From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kevin VerMeer Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:41 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] alert IGNORE question I have one client that has a maintentance window every night. I have two questions related to the IGNORE alert option. 1. Is the time specified in the IGNORE the server time or the client time? 2. The time I would like to ignore wraps around midnight. Do I need two separate IGNORE statements for that? Below are the pertinent lines in alert.cfg, and an error being generated to /var/log/xymon/alert.log HOST=* SERVICE=linkthreads COLOR=red ## ignore linkthreads on 10144 for this duration IGNORE HOST=CCHWOOPNL TIME=2345:0245 SCRIPT /usr/local/xymonutil/alertscripts/daemondown.sh internal REPEAT=15 RECOVERED 2014-06-11 07:41:38 Bad timespec (missing colon or no endtime): 2345:0245 Thanks, Kevin VerMeer [cid:image001.jpg at 01CF8550.7974A840] 4400 Baker Road, Minnetonka, MN 55343 TOLL FREE 888-346-3486 x 520 | FAX 952-908-6131 www.peoplenetonline.com<http://www.peoplenetonline.com/> PeopleNet is the leading provider of fleet mobility systems to the transportation industry, including truckload, LTL, private, and energy service fleets.

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alert IGNORE question
by KVerMeer＠peoplenetonline.com 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

I have one client that has a maintentance window every night. I have two questions related to the IGNORE alert option. 1. Is the time specified in the IGNORE the server time or the client time? 2. The time I would like to ignore wraps around midnight. Do I need two separate IGNORE statements for that? Below are the pertinent lines in alert.cfg, and an error being generated to /var/log/xymon/alert.log HOST=* SERVICE=linkthreads COLOR=red ## ignore linkthreads on 10144 for this duration IGNORE HOST=CCHWOOPNL TIME=2345:0245 SCRIPT /usr/local/xymonutil/alertscripts/daemondown.sh internal REPEAT=15 RECOVERED 2014-06-11 07:41:38 Bad timespec (missing colon or no endtime): 2345:0245 Thanks, Kevin VerMeer [cid:image001.jpg at 01CF8537.E6D7C6B0] 4400 Baker Road, Minnetonka, MN 55343 TOLL FREE 888-346-3486 x 520 | FAX 952-908-6131 www.peoplenetonline.com<http://www.peoplenetonline.com/> PeopleNet is the leading provider of fleet mobility systems to the transportation industry, including truckload, LTL, private, and energy service fleets.

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alerts.cfg regex ignoring $ (dollar)
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

Hi all, Can anyone confirm if this issue, alerts.cfg regex ignoring $ (dollar), from 2006 is fixed in the latest 4.3 code? I can confirm that it is not fixed in 4.3.7, but the best work-around is to add an exclude. (Although that does not help if you wanted to put the $ in your exclude. FYI, ^ works fine in regex.) Example: HOST=%MyHost$ SERVICE=conn Testing as xymon user with: ~/server/bin/xymoncmd xymond_alert --test MyHost conn --color=red --duration=700 | egrep "(Match with|Mail alert)" with MyHost1, MyHost2, etc. firing. Old references: Ref: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/010871.html Ref: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2010-January/027218.html Kind regards, SebA

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