September 2014 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

bring a specific test to first column
by anoopw13＠gmail.com 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hello, In my Xymon system, the tests are displayed in alphabetical order. I need to bring a specific test to first. The test name is release. Is there any easy way to do this ? I know the method with "group-only". As I have a large no of groups to configure it will take time. Can anybody help me please ? Thanks Anoop

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Problem with top Menu in new install
by mshort＠corelogic.com 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hello All. I've got a new install of Xymon that seems to work except for two problems when viewing the webpages: the top Menu bar does not get drawn, and the background color of the pages stays white. I've running a RHEL 6.5 system, and installed Xymon 4.3.17, Apache 2.2.15 and RRDTool 1.3.8. Webpages get created, graphs get created. The server is only monitoring itself at the moment. Icons for the various columns all get drawn correctly. The Logo line, with title and Date get drawn correctly, and all the display below that is OK. But the background color stays white. The top Menu prints all the options out as words (i.e. "Views<javascript:;>: Main view<http://10.81.0.55/xymon/xymon.html> | All non-green view<http://10.81.0.55/xymon/nongreen.html> | Critical systems<http://10.81.0.55/xymon-cgi-bin/criticalview.sh>", etc.) When I click a service light, it takes me to the subpage correctly. Information on the page is correctly drawn, and graphs correctly displayed. But, again, the background stays white and the top Menu is not drawn, only spelled out. If I then click a History button, I'm taken to a webpage that is correctly drawn in all parts - that is, the background is appropriately colored, and the top Menu does get drawn. Comparing the html source for the top area of the main page to a history page looks exactly the same. I've viewed the webpages under Firefox 32.0, Chrome 37.0 and IE 9, and all look the same. I did the xymon install using all the defaults, except the install directory itself which is /usr/local/xymon/. Screenshots are attached, though I don't know if they'll carry thru. Any ideas on what could be causing the problems? thanks ****************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential or proprietary information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above or may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the intended addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message and any copies immediately thereafter. Thank you. ****************************************************************************************** CLLD

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Xymon - Nagios interconnect
by traxler＠lsu.edu 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

I am a happy user of Xymon -- thanks Henrik! I have recently received a storage subsytem that includes a Nagios monitoring system that will need to stay in place. Anybody have suggestions/experience with gatewaying the Nagios alerts into xymon? My hope is to somehow feed the Nagios alerts (and clears) into xymon so xymon can tell me what I need to know. -- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University, LONI traxler at lsu.edu High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 Storage & Infrastructure

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msgs not matching
by neilsimmonds1808＠gmail.com 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Not sure why the last reply was truncated. What I intended to say was that all my other tests have double quotes around them as they all contain spaces. I don't think it's the quotes that's the issue although it may be something to do with the escaped double quote just before the word WebContainer -----Original Message----- From: Sent: None To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] msgs not matching The clientlocal.cfg entry was already in place as this is a standard test log that we use for testing new log monitors. All my other tests which all -----Original Message----- From: usa ims [mailto:usaims at yahoo.com] Sent: 11 September 2014 13:04 To: xymon at xymon.com; Neil Simmonds Subject: Re: [Xymon] msgs not matching On my xymon 4.3.7 I also modified the client-local.cfg. The client-local.cfg file contains settings that are used by each Xymon client when it runs on a monitored host. It provides a convenient way of configuring clients from a central location without having to setup special configuration maintenance tools on all clients. The client-local.cfg file is currently used to configure what logfiles the client should fetch data from, to be used as the basis for the "msgs" status column; and to configure which files and directories are being monitored in the "files" status column. Note that there is a dependency between the client-local.cfg file and the anaysis.cfg(5) file. When monitoring e.g. a logfile, you must first enter it into the client-local.cfg file, to trigger the Xymon client into reporting any data about the logfile. Next, you must configure analysis.cfg so the Xymon server knows what to look for in the file data sent by the client. So: client-local.cfg defines what raw data is collected by the client, and analysis.cfg defines how to analyze them. -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 9/11/14, Neil Simmonds <neilsimmonds1808 at gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [Xymon] msgs not matching To: xymon at xymon.com Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014, 7:14 AM I’m trying to get a match on a log file string but seem to be struggling. In my analysis.cfg I have the following, LOG /xymon/server/etc/test.log "%Thread \"WebContainer.{1,75} and may be hung*" COLOR=yellow On the msgs column on the relevant server I get, No entries in /xymon/server/etc/test.log No entries in /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log Full log /xymon/server/etc/test.logThread "WebContainer : 23" (0000006f) has been active for 686236 milliseconds and may be hung. Full log /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log I’ve tested my string in my usual regular expression tester and it seems it should work ok. Is there something obvious that I’ve missed? -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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xymon-rclient.sh
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Yes. The xymon-rclient script scp’s the proper script from ~/client/bin to the client and runs it. You’ll have to look at the script to see if it is using scp or if it is using a perl module for scp. I’m guessing the former. From: Kris Springer [mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:48 AM To: Root, Paul T; Jeremy Laidman Cc: Xymon MailingList Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-rclient.sh Xymon server is Ubuntu and Scp is not installed. Could that have something to do with my problems? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer On 7/31/2014 8:29 AM, Root, Paul T wrote: I believe FreeNas is based on FreeBSD. So that should be close. Can you provide the output of what I sent yesterday? That is scping the freebsd client script and running it. That is going to provide the debugging info needed. My guess is that the FreeBSD client script will need to be modified (and renamed) to work for FreeNas. From: Kris Springer [mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:18 AM To: Root, Paul T; Jeremy Laidman Cc: Xymon MailingList Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-rclient.sh I've modified a few things but haven't gotten any successful results. See below. My hosts.cfg. I've tried (freebsd) and also (linux) with the same failed results. 1.2.3.4 freenas.domain.com # trace ssh "RCLIENT:cmd(ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root@%{H}),ostype(freebsd)" Log results. Thu Jul 31 07:58:23 PDT 2014: starting /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/xymon-rclient.sh Thu Jul 31 07:58:23 PDT 2014 Adding hosts from hosts.cfg Server 1 freenas.domain.com(freebsd) Command: ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root at freenas.domain.com<mailto:root at freenas.domain.com> Thu Jul 31 07:58:24 PDT 2014: Failed to collect data for freenas.domain.com Thu Jul 31 07:58:24 PDT 2014: finished /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/xymon-rclient.sh (completed 0 out of 1) Thu Jul 31 08:03:23 PDT 2014: starting /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/xymon-rclient.sh Thu Jul 31 08:03:23 PDT 2014 Adding hosts from hosts.cfg Server 1 freenas.domain.com(linux) Command: ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root at freenas.domain.com<mailto:root at freenas.domain.com> Thu Jul 31 08:03:24 PDT 2014: Failed to collect data for freenas.domain.com Thu Jul 31 08:03:24 PDT 2014: finished /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/xymon-rclient.sh (completed 0 out of 1) I can enter the following at command line and get positive result without a password being requested from the client. #su xymon # ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root at freenas.domain.com<mailto:root at freenas.mydomainname.com> uname -n Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer On 7/31/2014 7:19 AM, Root, Paul T wrote: Oh, I glossed right over that. If you aren’t going to use the default file name for the identity file, then you have to tell xymon to use that non-standard file as well. That doesn’t seem to be an option for the command. So you’d need to either change the command to take that as input, or make the filename the default. From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:45 PM To: Kris Springer Cc: Xymon MailingList Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-rclient.sh On 31 July 2014 06:27, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com<mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>> wrote: I can enter ' ssh -i ~/.ssh/xymon-rclient root at freenas.mydomainname.com<mailto:root at freenas.mydomainname.com> uname -n' from a command line on the xymon server and it displays the hostname of the client Good Here's what I have in my hosts.cfg file. 1.2.3.4 FreeNAS # trace ssh https://freenas.mydomainname.com "RCLIENT:cmd(ssh -T root at freenas.mydomainname.com<http://freenas.mydomainname.com>),ostype(freebsd)" I wonder if this is the problem. By default, ssh will try to use a key file called "identity", then it will try "id_rsa" and finally "id_dsa" (all in the .ssh directory). So to use a different key file, you use "-i <dirname/filename>" on the command-line. If you need to do this when you do the "uname -n" test, then you probably also need to specify it in the cmd() specification in hosts.cfg. J

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graphs
by usaims＠yahoo.com 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi, xymon 4.3.7 on unbuntu 64 bit. I had my graphs working just great but when I made a change in the host.cfg, I'm getting "No DS called 'Seconds' in 'CompReport.rrd' ". I did not make any changes to the xymonserver.cfg and graphs.cfg. This is what my hosts.cfg had when the graph worked: group-only CompReport|conn|http <font size="+1">Test VIP</font> 10.xxx.xxx.xxx 10.xxx.xxx.xxx #CompReport conn http://10.xxx.xxx.xxx But when I changed it to: group-only CompReport|conn|http <font size="+1">Test VIP</font> 10.xxx.xxx.xxx HelloWorld #CompReport conn http://10.xxx.xxx.xxx I'm getting: "No DS called 'Seconds' in 'CompReport.rrd' ". I have deleted the old directories of 10.xxx.xxx.xxx in /var/lib/xymon/rrd and restarted xymon. And I deleted the /var/lib/xymon/rrd/HelloWorld directory. I restarted xymon and I do see files in /var/lib/xymon/rrd/HelloWorld but no graph -- just link and little magnifying glasses. Any clue? Thanks.

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SSL/network errors; no changes
by novosirj＠ca.rutgers.edu 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Hi all. Running Xymon 4.3.12 (OpenSSL 0.9.7d). All of a sudden, one of our tests is failing in an odd way. I'm seeing both a red http test for the host in question, and the following yellow on my xymonnnet test: Unknown error 0 in SSL_connect to 47873/tcp on host 10.136.100.125: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0) Unknown error 0 in SSL_connect to 47873/tcp on host 10.136.100.125: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0) Here is the failing test: Fri Sep 12 11:27:22 2014: SSL error ; SSL error ; OK red https://my-test.umdnj.edu/cp/home/login - SSL error Seconds: 0.61 red https://my-test.umdnj.edu/cp/home/displaylogin - SSL error Seconds: 0.61 I'm not really seeing anything in the logfiles that would help me (the bb-network log has just the xymonnet above error). Can anyone suggest something further? Nothing that I'm aware of was changed on the system being tested or the system doing the testing. -- ____ *Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences* || \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*--------------------- ||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Senior Technologist || \\ and Health | novosirj at rutgers.edu - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) || \\ Sciences | OIRT/High Perf & Res Comp - MSB C630, Newark `'

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Fwd: client-local.cfg ignore a complicated line - syntax issue?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

Sorry meant to cc the previous message to the list. Correcting the line wrapping made my lines start to take effect but also caused logfetch to dump core This causes a core dump: log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 trigger brocade ignore %.*(apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE).* This works log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 trigger brocade ignore apcontroller so now, question is how to ignore more than one thing :-) It sounds from this thread (Thanks Jeremy) that maybe multiple bogus trigger lines would help: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-August/038002.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [Xymon] client-local.cfg ignore a complicated line - syntax issue? To: Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> Hm, somewhere in there I had gotten onto one line, thanks this is for client-launch.cfg I tried this ignore %(?-i)apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE and got a core dump on the client upgraded the client from 4.3.12 to 4.3.17 still got a core dump [root at syslog1 logs]# tail xymonclient.log /home/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient.sh: line 60: 33209 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $XYMONHOME/bin/logfetch $LOGFETCHCFG $LOGFETCHSTATUS >> $MSGTMPFILE

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client-local.cfg ignore a complicated line - syntax issue?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I'm getting stuck I'm looking at a logfile and I would like to ignore lines like this: Sep 11 22:24:36 10.65.0.6 apcontroller: *bcastReceiveTask: Sep 11 22:24:36.407: %DTL-4-ARP_ORPHANPKT_DETECTED: dtl_net.c:1426 STA(Target MAC Address) [d4:9a:20:58:46:34, 0.0.0.0] ARP (op ARP REQUEST) received with invalid SPA(Source IP Address) 10.0.10.157/TPA(Destination IP Address) 10.0.10.1 I've been playing around with variations like log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 IGNORE (apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE) or log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 IGNORE apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE or log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 IGNORE= (apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE) or log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 IGNORE=%(?-i)apcontroller|cli.WARNING|cli.NOTICE and even log:/appdata/logserver/local7.log:102400 IGNORE apcontroller (I'd like to ignore the cli.WARNING and cli.NOTICE too, but there are really too many apcontroller lines) Please, what is the syntax I need for this? Or is this a problem because it's a complicated line containing so many special sorts of characters? thanks Betsy

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msgs not matching
by neilsimmonds1808＠gmail.com 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

I'm trying to get a match on a log file string but seem to be struggling. In my analysis.cfg I have the following, LOG /xymon/server/etc/test.log "%Thread \"WebContainer.{1,75} and may be hung*" COLOR=yellow On the msgs column on the relevant server I get, No entries in /xymon/server/etc/test.log No entries in /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log Full log /xymon/server/etc/test.log Thread "WebContainer : 23" (0000006f) has been active for 686236 milliseconds and may be hung. Full log /tmp/xymontest/ATPReceiptDiag.log I've tested my string in my usual regular expression tester and it seems it should work ok. Is there something obvious that I've missed?

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