September 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Help
by panacea.hpalacios＠yobelscm.biz 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Hi, My name is Hatemm from Peru, I need help with Xymon, the monitoring is OK with my other servers, but my Xymon server is purple and I dont now why. Please any recomendation. Regards. [image: Imágenes integradas 1] Saludos, Hatemm O. Palacios Saman Tecnología de la Información - UN Servicios Yobel SCM Av. San Genaro 150 Urb. Molitalia. Los Olivos Tel. 613 3600 anx. 3186 | Fax. 536 9997 www.yobelscm.biz Este mensaje y la informaci�n que contiene est�n dirigidos exclusivamente a sus destinatarios. Contiene informaci�n producida por Yobel SCM que es confidencial no susceptible de ser distribuida. Si usted no es el destinatario no puede examinar, usar, copiar o distribuir este mensaje o la informaci�n que �l contiene. Si lo recibe por error, por favor reenv�elo a la persona que se lo envi� y elim�nelo. Gracias. This message and its information are exclusively addressed to its recipients. The information contained here is produced by Yobel SCM and is confidential nonsusceptible to be distributed. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, copy or distribute this message or its information. If you receive this by mistake, please forward this e-mail to the sender and delete it. Thank you.

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Xymon Powershell Client Problems
by bdale＠kitchen-net.com.au 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

I have been testing the XymonPSClient for windows found a few problems I was hoping someone could help with, I set this up on a few machines running 2008r2 and 2012r2 1. Tried to install on Server 2012 R2 running powershell version 4, got this error: PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 install At C:\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:28 char:24 + $XymonClientVersion = "$Id: xymonclient.ps1 7348 2014-01-15 05:13:48Z dbaldwin $ ... + ~~~~ Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to delimit the name. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive I edited xymonclient.ps1 and just removed the ":" character and that seems to make it work. 2. setting clientfqdn 0 doesn't stop it appending the fqdn, to get this to work I have to manually set the hostname without the fqdn on this line and uncomment the line: # $clientname = "winxptest" # Define this to override the default client hostname Here is an example of my config PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 config XymonPSClient config: servers : kgxymon01 clientconfigfile : C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg clientlogfile : C:\xymon\xymonclient.log clientname : test05 clientfqdn : 0 loginterval : 60 name : test05 loopinterval : 60 reportevt : 1 Settable Params and values: clientbbwinmembug=1 clientconfigfile=C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg clientfqdn=0 clientlogfile=C:\xymon\xymonclient.log clientlower=1 clientname=test05 clientremotecfgexec=0 loginterval=60 loopinterval=60 maxlogage=60 name=test05 reportevt=1 servers=kgxymon01 slowscanrate=72 wanteddisks=3 wantedlogs=Application System Security and here is part of the contents of c:\xymon\xymonclient.log the fqdn is still added. clientname test05.mydomain.local [XymonPSClientInfo] Id : 2212 Handles : 442 CPU : 24.640625 Name : powershell 3. Can't filter out events, the settings from client-local.cfg on the xymon server are successfully copied to c:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg with the filter rules I had setup for BBwin which work. For example eventlog:application:10240 ignore This is a test I would expect this to ignore any event where the message is "This is a test" this works in BBwin, with the powershell client the event will still appear in the msgs column, as far as I can these filters don't work at all with the PowerShell client but I may be doing it wrong. 4. In xymonclient.ps1 for function XymonMsgs it has the following: Get-EventLog -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -LogName $log.Log -asBaseObject -After $since | where {$_.EntryType -match "Error|Warning"} This is missing "Critical" level, after a quick google it seems like get-eventlog might not support retrieving critical level events, does this mean the powershell client will never report on critical events? Brandon Dale

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if statment issue on ext script
by jglouisjr＠gmail.com 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > XYMON MESSAGE > ------------------- > DATACENTER : D1 > SERVER : > STATE : Normal > STATUS : Green > TEST : test > RESPONSE SUCCEEDED : .079411876 sec > IPADDRESS : 10.xxx.xxx.xxx > EVENT TIME : Wed 24 Sep 2014 05:48:21 PM EDT > Why is there more to your MSG than what is in your script? Jim -- * Jim Louis \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ |* *--oOo---(_)---oOo--* "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." ~ John Kennedy

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Xymon Setup
by Andreb＠paym8.co.za 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi Guys Just some questions regarding Xymon, 1. At current my hosts.cfg file is getting very big and long with all hosts I am adding. So now when you view Xymon on the frontend ie. Browser you need to scroll down to see everything. Instead of one big list, can you not have your servers and network for instance next to one another like below.? 1.1 Current config. [cid:image001.png at 01CFD8D9.0BE20B60] 1.2 But to have them rather display as follow, next to one another to save space? I don't want to go and create subpages and then end up with like 20 pages or so. [cid:image003.jpg at 01CFD8DA.53475E50][cid:image005.jpg at 01CFD8DA.53475E50] 2. The options that show just above your smiley face or diamond shape etc. [cid:image008.png at 01CFD8D9.E4C4A870] 2.1 Which ones are default on xymon,? I take it the cpu, disk, memory and some of them come with bbwin if it is installed and monitoring a windows box. 3. If you setup a conn for ping in the hosts.cfg file and configure the interval time in the server.cfg can you only set the interval in minutes ie. 1M, can you make it in seconds also for a more realtime realistic feel?. Kind regards, Andre

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Terminal Server (Citrix) User Session Monitoring by using termusers.pl
by Andreas.Sin＠hintag.ch 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi folks Is anybody out there who is able to tell me, whether it's possible to implement an user session monitoring within Xymon for Citrix Terminal Servers as it used to be possible in the golden age of Hobbit. I used to administrate Hobbit at my former employer and implemented user session monitoring with the script termusers.pl few years ago. Now I've changed my employer and would like to internally implement Xymon for easy and simple monitoring and fast graphical reporting and I was wondering whether it's possible or not. This Session monitoring part is a knock-out criterion. cheers Andi Best regards Beste Grüsse Andreas Sin System Engineer [Beschreibung: cid:FCA900BF-A138-49FC-A09E-DE150D9809DC] HINT AG Bahnhofstrasse 4 CH-5600 Lenzburg andreas.sin at hintag.ch<mailto:andreas.sin at hintag.ch> Direktwahl +41 58 404 59 55 Zentrale +41 58 404 57 00 Fax +41 58 404 57 01 www.hintag.ch<http://www.hintag.ch/>

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The Big Brother / Xymon summit
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi, Sean McGuire - the inventor of Big Brother - and myself managed to get together at "Sparkys Roadside Barbecue" in Miami last month. We had a very nice evening discussing Big Brother, Xymon, the foibles of our various corporate overlords, and generally covering a wide range of topics. In other words, I had a great evening - and I think Sean did too. Thanks to the Xymon users who donated "beer money" for the event, although Sean insisted to save those for another occasion. So if you've ever wondered what Sean or myself really look like, here's a couple of photos. It's Sean in the "barbecue-colored" shirt (his words, not mine). Regards, Henrik

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if statment issue on ext script
by usaims＠yahoo.com 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi, if statement not working in my ext script. Once the script is executed, the hostname is not showing up in the MSG statement -- do you see anything obvious? I needed to 'x' out the ipaddress so my boss won't have a security panic attack. $BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $TESTNAME | while read IP HOSTNAME OTHER; do if do_fetch $HOSTNAME $IP | grep "$REGEX" > /dev/null ; then if [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.1[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server33.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.2[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server34.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.3[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server35.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.4[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server36.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.5[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server37.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.6[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server38.misc.corp.local"` elif [[ `echo "$IP"` =~ ^10.xxx.xxx.7[0-9] ]]; then HOST=`echo "server39.misc.corp.local"` fi #### MSG=" XYMON MESSAGE ------------------ SERVER : "$HOST" ## printing blank here IPADDRESS : $IP ## ipaddress is echoing fine. " $BB $BBDISP "status $HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME $COL $MSG"

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quick question - wildcard multiple logs in client-local?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

I have a set of ever-changing-name log files which I want to check for the string "ERROR" This works in client-local.cfg, for file metadata: file:`ls /vg8_bo3_stats/vg8_stats/top_talkers/server_*/server*` This does not work log:`ls /vg8_bo3_stats/vg8_stats/top_talkers/server_*/server*` Should it? Or do I have to write a custom script? The files will be named with the date like so /vg8_bo3_stats/vg8_stats/top_talkers/server_4/server_4_2014-09-24T012005 xymon 4.3.17 on RHEL6 thanks Betsy

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Terminal Server (Citrix) User Session Monitoring with termusers.pl
by Andreas.Sin＠hintag.ch 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi folks Is anybody out there who is able to tell me, whether it's possible to implement an user session monitoring within Xymon for Citrix Terminal Servers as it used to be possible in the golden age of Hobbit. I used to administrate Hobbit in my former employer environment and implemented this with the script termusers.pl. Now I've changed my employer and would like to implement Xymon for easy monitoring and fast graphical overview and I was wondering whether it's possible or not. This Session monitoring is a knock-out criterion. Cheers AnDiused to Beste regards Andreas Sin System Engineer Citrix Certified Expert (CCE) [Beschreibung: cid:FCA900BF-A138-49FC-A09E-DE150D9809DC] HINT AG Bahnhofstrasse 4 CH-5600 Lenzburg andreas.sin at hintag.ch<mailto:andreas.sin at hintag.ch> Direktwahl +41 58 404 59 55 Zentrale +41 58 404 57 00 Fax +41 58 404 57 01 www.hintag.ch<http://www.hintag.ch/>

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Ext script not looping
by rltexas1＠gmail.com 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

I have this script work is failing on all hosts except the first one. I have narrowed it down to the ssh statement. For some reason the ssh statement causes the script to exit after the first host. Any ideas why the ssh statement would cause the ext script to exit after the first host ? #!/bin/sh export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin HOSTTAG=zfsmon # What we put in hosts.cfg to trigger this test COLUMN=zfs # Name of the column, often same as tag in hosts.cfg $XYMONHOME/bin/xymongrep $HOSTTAG | while read L do set $L # To get one line of output from xymongrep HOSTIP="$1" MACHINEDOTS="$2" MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'` COLOR=green MSG="&green $MACHINEDOTS : POOL OK " #... do the test, perhaps modify COLOR and MSG typeset ZFSSTAT= ZFSHEALTH=`/usr/local/bin/ssh $MACHINE "/sbin/zpool get health rpool" | grep ONLINE | wc -l` if [ $ZFSHEALTH -ne 1 ] then COLOR=red MSG="&red $MACHINEDOTS : POOL ISSUE" fi ZFSSTAT=`ssh -q $MACHINE /sbin/zpool status rpool` $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` ${MSG} $ZFSSTAT " Done

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