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XymonPSclient
by SKreien＠la-z-boy.com 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hey everyone, I'm trying out the PS client again after using it 1-2 years ago and it causing too many problems. I'm hoping the impact on the clients will have been lessened since I tried it last. I have the PS client installed and configured, but I never show any connection to the xymon server while monitoring with tcpdump. Also, I never get any files created in the temp directory. Here's the dump of the config below: PS C:\Xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 config XymonPSClient config: servers : xymon.internal.hq loopinterval : 60 maxlogage : 30 clientlower : 1 Settable Params and values: clientbbwinmembug=1 clientconfigfile=C:\Users\skreien\AppData\Local\Temp\xymonconfig.cfg clientfqdn=1 clientlogfile=C:\Users\skreien\AppData\Local\Temp\xymonclient.log clientlower=1 clientname=corpvskreien.na.lzb.hq clientremotecfgexec=0 loopinterval=60 maxlogage=30 reportevt=1 servers= xymon.internal.hq slowscanrate=72 wanteddisks=3 wantedlogs=Application System Security The Xymon server is running as it is receiving messages from hundreds of other clients. This is an internal only server so iptables is off, Windows firewall is off, and I can successfully telnet from the client to the Xymon server port so there is nothing standing in the way. The server is Redhat 5.5, client is Win7. Any ideas? Scot Kreienkamp This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you.

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Message send via trends shows last_ds as UNKN.
by prashantkad＠gmail.com 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

With a simple script I’m trying to send message to Xymon using trends message. The RRD file get’s created with specified DS but the value for <last_ds> appears as UNKN. I have tried removing whitespaces and all but still no luck. Can anyone point what issue it could be ? This is what I have in script: /app/home/xymon/bin/xymon --debug smpapp-dt-a3s.net "data smpapp-dt-a1d.ula.net.trends [test.rrd] DS:XYZ:GAUGE:600:0:U 1323233 DS:ABC:GAUGE:600:U:U 12312312" -Prashant

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Blue report for last month
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hi, I need to generate a report that shows all blue for last month with host/test/start-time/end-time Ideally this would be generated by running the Availability report and choosing all or maybe a new entry blue. I played around with running statusreport.cgi but it can't do history. It seems report.cgi takes away all blue. How can I generate a blue report for last month? - Roland

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local mode client
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

One of my co-workers has installed xymon 4.3.7, and wants to use local mode for configuration. The display server is not receiving anything from his machine if things run normally, but when run by hand, xymon can send data from his server (Solaris) to the display server. I enabled xymond_client --debug in xymonclient.sh: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $MSGTMPFILE $XYMONHOME/bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/localclient .cfg <$MSGTMPFILE And now I'm getting this: + ../bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=528383 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Got 161874 bytes 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 ../bin/xymond_client: Got message 1 @client#1|0|127.0.0.1|neptune.lib.iastate.edu|sunos 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Opening file ../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Compiling regex ^/zones.*/ 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Client report from host neptune.lib.iastate.edu 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 neptune.lib.iastate.edu: Duplicate client message at time 0, seq 1, lastseq 0 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 2, startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=366509 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 get_xymond_message: Returning NULL due to EOF + rm -f ../tmp/msg.neptune.lib.iastate.edu.txt I'm not sure where to go from here. Does local mode still work for most people? -Tracy

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acknowledge.c(gi) buffer overrun
by cb＠df7cb.de 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

Hi, spotted on 4.3.17 in production: --- a/web/acknowledge.c +++ b/web/acknowledge.c @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) pcre *dummy; char *re; - re = (char *)malloc(8 + strlen(pagename)); + re = (char *)malloc(8 + 2*strlen(pagename)); sprintf(re, "%s$|^%s/.+", pagename, pagename); dummy = compileregex(re); if (dummy) { This might even deserve a CVE number, but as it's a seccgi, it's not widely exposed. Christoph -- cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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Two servers from one agent
by neilsimmonds1808＠gmail.com 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

I've got a requirement to run an agent reporting to 2 separate servers. It's a BBWin agent and is actually on a server belonging to our partner company but because we support that particular system we need it to report to our Xymon server as well as theirs. We run all our agents in Central mode so I'm wondering what the implications of that are when sending to 2 servers like this. Will it just pick up the config files from the first server or will it pick both up?

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Monitor file content (trigger on keyword) on MS Windows
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hi, I would like to know how do you search for keywords in files on Windows (I'm using BBWIN as a Windows XYmon agent). I've tried fsmon BBWIN plugin without any luck. Any advice? Thanks

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errors with custom graphs
by Sheel.Shah＠rd.com 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hello, I set up some custom graphs to monitor my Memcached instances. However, I appear to have run into an issue. I set up my xymonserver.cfg to collect all of my data into one NCV file, as evidenced by my TEST2RRD and my configuration below. I also believe I defined the datatypes appropriately. The issue that I am seeing is in the RRD file itself, when I use the RRDTOOL to dump the file. All of the values for the various datatypes are showing as NaN. Would someone be able to point me in the direction of what I could be doing wrong? Thank you, Sheel TEST2RRD="<other stuff>,memcache-test=ncv,MC-TFH-8K01-11221=ncv,MC-TFH-8K01-11222=ncv,MC-TFH-8K02-11221=ncv,MC-TFH-8K02-11222=ncv" NCV_memcache-test="Hits:GAUGE,Misses:GAUGE,reqs:GAUGE,Gets:GAUGE,Sets:GAUGE,storage:GAUGE,items:GAUGE,hitratio:GAUGE,*:NONE" NCV_MC-TFH-8K01-11111="Hits:DERIVE,Misses:DERIVE,reqs:DERIVE,Gets:DERIVE,Sets:DERIVE,storage:DERIVE,items:DERIVE,hitratio:DERIVE,*:NONE"

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Agent information
by sanjana.ahlawat＠gssltd.co.in 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hi Team I am new to xymon and trying to learn about it. But I am unable to figure out few questions. 1. I run xymon client installation by apt-get. but can you tell me what is actually running or getting installed in my system is it a rpm or what? 2. how my agent works. how does it gains information from the system it is running on. 3. what is the architecture of the xymon. I would really appreciate your help. Please give me the insight of the tool. -- Thanks and Regards *Sanjana *

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Installing pcre2 10.0.0
by raulmoralesf＠yahoo.com.mx 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, May be this is not the correct site to ask about PCRE, however I'm installing thit library in order to set up XYMON, And the configure script of PCRE stops with this message:..... checking for link... link -lib checking the archiver (link -lib) interface... unknown configure: error: could not determine link -lib interface Someone knows what file/etc is missing to PCRE...??? Thanks in advance

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