August 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

message bodies now coming as attachments?
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

On 25-08-2014 20:34, John Thurston wrote: > Within the last few days, my xymon listserv messages have been > appearing in my mailbox as attached .eml files. The message body is > empty except for the listserv footer. Subsequent responses to a > message appear with the content in-line. > > I don't think anything has changed on my email client (TBird on > windoz). Did something recently change on the listserve? This happens with messages sent from yahoo.com adresses. Due to yahoo's rather heavy-handed way of fighting spam, it has become necessary to wrap messages inside an outer (empty) message which has the Xymon mailing list as sender instead of the original yahoo sender. This was implemented on Saturday, see http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-August/040093.html Regards, Henrik

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swap is at 100%
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

There should be a link to show client data; that will show what the client script sent you. Look that over to see if it's interpreting it properly. If it looks like it is, any further diagnosis is on the client OS side. For instance, you can maybe figure out which processes are using a lot of memory with "top", telling it to sort by virtual memory size. On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:04 PM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:02:05 -0700 > Subject: swap is at 100% > I just go an alert that swap is at 100% > > Memory Used Total Percentage > green Physical 1827M 15296M 11% > green Actual 554M 15296M 3% > red Swap 15294456M 15294456M 100% > > I logged into the box and it is basically idling. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > usaims > > >

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swap is at 100%
by usaims＠yahoo.com 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

I just go an alert that swap is at 100% Memory Used Total Percentage green Physical 1827M 15296M 11% green Actual 554M 15296M 3% red Swap 15294456M 15294456M 100% I logged into the box and it is basically idling. Any help will be greatly appreciated. usaims

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unpredictable output
by usaims＠yahoo.com 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hi, I just got an alert on the bb2.html page that a service with the color green with the following date on the output. ‘ Jul 29 15:37:45 EDT 2014 - Memory OK’ Went to purple with an output of the correct date: ‘Mon Aug 25 11:06:51 EDT 2014 - Memory OK’ This has been up and running for about a week – why is it saying July 29? usaims

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purple
by usaims＠yahoo.com 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Greetings, I have my xymon environment up and running for about a week before we went live -- didn't get any purple and everything seems to be running green. As soon as I went live, I'm getting sporadic purple icons on various services. I log into the nodes that have the purple and don't see anything wrong. Where should I start troubleshooting? usaims

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purple
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

While I’m just another user, and can’t say for sure, here’s some things to think about: Is there any pattern to whether these are server-side tests vs client-side? Has there been any increase in network traffic to/from the server since you went live? Is the connectivity between clients and servers reliable even under load? I’m thinking that somehow, things are busier now, so that some test results are getting dropped. Have you checked all the relevant log files? (Yes, others may have seen such things too, to some degree, depending on network reliability, number of clients, load on clients or servers, etc) On Aug 25, 2014, at 9:29 AM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > > From: usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com> > Subject: purple > Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:26:55 AM EDT > To: xymon at xymon.com > > > Greetings, > > I have my xymon environment up and running for about a week before we went live -- didn't get any purple and everything seems to be running green. > > As soon as I went live, I'm getting sporadic purple icons on various services. I log into the nodes that have the purple and don't see anything wrong. > > Where should I start troubleshooting? > > usaims > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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xymonnet testip And host.cfg Entry
by tom＠it-eckert.de 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Great it works now :) cc'ed list.... On Aug 22, 2014 11:00 PM, "Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor)" <Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote: > > Thomas, > > Thanks for the extra set of eyes. It does work once corrected. > > It's all about the syntax. > > Thanks again. > > Scott Allen Rebman > Solaris System Administrator > HHS/HHSC/Contractor > TIERS Operations > (512)873-6864 (CrossPark) > (512)275-6122 (cell) > Scott.Rebman at hhsc.state.tx.us > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Eckert [mailto:tom at it-eckert.de] > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:00 PM > To: Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor) > Cc: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet testip And host.cfg Entry > > On both lines mentioning your glabal zone the hash (#) after the hostname is missing. Probably just a cut and paste error. > > Having used conn checks for multihomed machines rarely but from the manpage the syntax seems to be: > > 10.###.###.12 # conn=best,10.###.###.12,172.###.###.78 > > Cheers > Thomas > > On Aug 22, 2014 6:17 PM, "Rebman,Scott (HHSC Contractor)" wrote: > > > > Looking for assistance in recognizing (pinging) admin networks on > > Solaris 10/11 global zones and ldoms but keep using public IP’s for > > containers (zones) > > > > Found the following on the xymonnet man page: > > > > --dns=[ip|only|standard] > > Determines how xymonnet finds the IP adresses of the hosts to test. By default (the "standard"), xymonnet does a DNS lookup of the hostname to determine the IP address, unless the host has the "testip" tag, or the DNS lookup fails. > > With "--dns=only" xymonnet will ONLY do the DNS lookup; if it fails, then all services on that host will be reported as being down. > > With "--dns=ip" xymonnet will never do a DNS lookup; it will use the > > IP adresse specified in hosts.cfg for the tests. Thus, this setting is > > equivalent to having the "testip" tag on all hosts. Note that http > > tests will ignore this setting and still perform a DNS lookup for the > > hostname given in the URL; see the "xymonnet tags for HTTP tests" > > section in hosts.cfg(5) > > > > But on the host.cfg man page: > > > > testip > > By default, Xymon will perform a name lookup of the hostname to get the IP address it will use for network tests. This tag causes Xymon to use the IP listed in the hosts.cfg file. > > > > But then it goes on to say later in the hosts.cfg page: > > > > Testing sites by IP-address > > xymonnet ignores the "testip" tag normally used to force a test to use the IP-address from the hosts.cfg file instead of the hostname, when it performs http and https tests. > > The reason for this is that it interacts badly with virtual hosts, especially if these are IP-based as is common with https-websites. > > The xymon info page does list the admin network IP but the conn page continues to check the public IP address: > > > > > > - Information > > Fri Aug 22 09:38:43 2014 > > > > 08/21/14 What happened to the iostat2 column on the Solaris boxes? > > > > > > > > Hostname: > > > > OS: > > SunOS 5.11 11.1 sun4v sparc sun4v Client S/W: > > IP: > > 172.###.###.78 > > > > > > - conn > > Fri Aug 22 09:40:14 2014 > > > > 08/21/14 What happened to the iostat2 column on the Solaris boxes? > > > > > > > > Top of Form > > Bottom of Form > > Fri Aug 22 09:38:41 2014 conn NOT ok > > > > Service conn on is not OK : Host does not respond to > > ping > > > > > > System unreachable for 1424 poll periods (258838 seconds) > > > > 10.###.###.12 is unreachable > > > > > > > > > > > > host.cfg file entry: > > > > group > > 172.###.###.78 testip > > 10.###.###.41 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.42 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.43 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.44 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.45 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.46 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.47 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.48 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.49 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.79 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.81 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.166 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.53 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.170 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.55 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.56 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.57 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.58 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.73 #COMMENT:"" > > 10.###.###.168 #COMMENT:"" > > > > I have also added the following entry to the hosts.cfg file with no luck getting the conn to go green: > > > > 10.###.###.12 conn={best}10.###.###.12,172.###.###.78 > > > > How do I correct this to have the conn also ping the admin IP address but yet allow the continued checks of DNS for the containers (zones)? > > > > Scott Allen Rebman > > Solaris System Administrator > > Northrop Grumman > > > > > > > > > >

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Administratrivia: Problems for yahoo.com mailing list subscribers
by henrik＠hswn.dk 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hi, Yahoo has an annoying habit of making life difficult for mail admins, and they have recently done so again by enabling a DMARC 'reject' policy for all of their subscribers. DMARC is one of the newer tools to combat spam, but it has the unfortunate side effect of being completely incompatible with most mailing list software. This came to my attention this morning, when most of the yahoo subscribers to the mailing list were disabled. http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/82426900353/yahoo-dmarc-policy-change-what… http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC I have this morning upgraded the Mailman software used on the Xymon mailing list. The effect of this is that mails from Yahoo adresses (and others, who has set DMARC policy to 'reject' or 'quarantine') will be wrapped in an "outer message" when forwarded to the list. Most of you won't notice, but it depends on how your e-mail client handles such messages. Regards, Henrik

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bb2.html
by usaims＠yahoo.com 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Greetings, How do I clear out the "100 events received in the past xxx" in the bb2.html? TIA, Rod

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DOWNTIME for http content checks
by mburger＠bubbanfriends.org 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

I've looked at the hosts.cfg man page, I've done some searching of the list archives, and I've done some experimentation of my own, but I seem to be unable to achieve the following: I have some hosts for which I'd like to perform web content checks. I've got the cont= lines setup like so: cont=ptlcls2;http://some.host.here:20039/wps/portal/fhmc;"regex[[:space:]]text" And the alarm works just fine. I've tried adding: DOWNTIME=content:*:1435:1445:"some description" or DOWNTIME=ptlcls2:*:1435:1445:"some description" But the new column "ptlcls2" still goes red, rather than blue, during the DOWNTIME period. The only thing I can think of is that DOWNTIME isn't available for content checks, or that I'm incorrectly specifiying the test/status/column for the DOWNTIME specification. If anyone has any insight as to what I might be doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it. -- 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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