February 2015 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

EXTIME still valid ?
by rltexas1＠gmail.com 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

Is the EXTIME option still valid in the alerts.cfg I am having problems testing the following EXTIME=1:1140:1240 Should be exclude Monday's 11:40 to 12:40. Will test EXTIME=M:1140:1240 But if it's M for Monday what would Sunday be ? Thanks

4 4

MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Henrik and Fellow Xymoners, Just for you I have pushed off any real work for today just to get you all a first release of MAGMA the XYMon Web GUI Admin. MAGMA is an add-on web GUI for managing Host, Groups and Alarms on a XYmon 4.3 or newer system. You can find MAGMA at http://www.squidworks.net/magma/ There you will find the description, screen shots and features of MAGMA along with the link to download the source package. It requires MySQL and PHP5 and is very simple to install. All supporting information is included in the tarball. How does it work? --------------------------- It stores all alarm and host/group configs in the SQL database and rewrites the Host.cfg, Analysis.cfg and Alarms.cfg files causing the XYmon system to update its tests and pages based on the changes in these files. It will overwrite the files each time a host is added or edited making the process of updating automatic. To get the full benefit of MAGMA you should place all hosts in "central" mode, although this is not required, without it your management is somewhat restrictive (external test management only). In Central mode you get full management features for all tests. If you have any questions or need some help just send me a email @ sanderson @ squidworks.net Cubert 8-) Aka Shannon Anderson

9 10

Xymon and Oracle ASM?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Anyone got any good scripts for xymon and Oracle ASM?

5 4

Raspberry Pi Xymon Server
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hi, is it possible to use a Raspberry Pi (512MB model running Debian Squeeze) as a Xymon server (only for a limited number of clients)? Regards, Nick Pettefar

8 9

logstash output for xymon
by wbeauchaine＠katei.net 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Hello i use http://www.logstash.net and xymon so i adapted the logstash output zabbix for xymon: http://pastebin.com/UQBJF7m7 Actually i have not contacted logstash team to add this output. So if you want use this you need to copy this code to logstash/outputs/xymon.rb. Execute jar -uf logstash-1.1.0.1-monolithic.jar logstash/outputs/xymon.rb to add this on jar file i have only test this on linux if you have any question please contact me by email Regards, Wilfrid

4 6

uptime report / grep cpu days
by dito74＠gmail.com 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

hi guys, I've been using XYMon for a while now, I've been running the old free BB 1.08 for a long time, I also purchased the Quest version for a year, but they kept making no improvements. My QA and DEV people didn't want to migrate too fast, and since I'm running a bunch of old Windows clients (1.08d for windows 2000, 4.30 and up for 2003 and over), when I chose to migrate my server to XYMon (because it was fully backwards compatible), they put an hold on migrating the agents to BBWin, so I migrated to XYMon and I have a bunch of mixed agents now (some I've migrated, some I didn't). Now old agents don't have "uptime" test, new BBWin do, so now to my question.... My problem is that XYMon by default doesn't write the logs (only hist and histlogs) and when I needed to run an uptime report of the servers, I used to grep the cpu logs for "days" and I would get all the servers in line with days next to it. I don't care if I need to run 2 reports, one for new and one for old agents, but I am still having the problem that I am not too sure how to do it now. Is there an uptime script or report that someone already have configured so I can deploy it? Thank you, Gab

2 1

Bug in handling of Windows services
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

I believe there is a bug in the way Xymon handles Windows service data. I've always used BBWin agents and had the issue when a Service is in a stopped state that Xymon actually reports, Service is started/automatic - want started/automatic This is with the analysis.cfg line of SVC Service status=started startup=automatic I'm currently testing the WinPSClient and have found that I also get the same erroneous message with that. This suggests to me the Xymon is icorrectly handling the data from the client. I'm on version 4.3.4 of Xymon Server. I had a look through the release notes for all versions since 4.3.4 and couldn't find any mention of it so I suspect it is still an issue. Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority -------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

5 7

rrd logs and graphs
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hi all Am busy trying to investigate a curious problem with rrd graphs, and I stumbled on something else I don't understand, and was hoping somebody out there could help. As part of my investigation, I added --debug to the [rrdstatus] and [rrddata] entries on the server tasks.cfg And the logs started showing heaps of the message 2014-11-14 10:41:36 Peer not up, flushing message queue What is that? It doesn't look right to me. I might as well explain why I am doing this. I am running an experimental script, zresources.ksh Its supposed to allow me to graph the resources being used by individual zones on Solaris. Here's part of the code $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.zmem green $(date) $OUT " $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zmem $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.mem" ;echo;echo)" $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zcpu $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.cpu" ;echo;echo)" $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zswap $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.swap" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.zmem green $(date) $OUT " echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zmem $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.mem" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zcpu $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.cpu" ;echo;echo)" echo $XYMON $XYMSRV "data $MACHINE.zswap $COLOR $(echo; cat "$TEMPFILE.swap" ;echo;echo)" cat $TEMPFILE.swap cat $TEMPFILE.cpu cat $TEMPFILE.mem The first 4 lines are "real" and the rest I added for debug. It's supposed to send data containing the zone names, and the amount of resources it's using. global : 293 zone1 : 575 zone2 : 899 zone3 : 754 All good, it makes nice pretty graphs and what have you. And I expect and get rrd files as follows zmem,global.rrd zcpu,global.rrd zswap,global.rrd zmem,zone1.rrd zcpu,zone.rrd zswap,zone1.rrd etc.etc. Except every now and then, I get something like zmem,c2t0d1.rrd I get others too, like zmem,rmt_0 and sometimes even with database SIDs too. And not just for zmem, for zcpu and zswap with about equal frequency. And often, the database SID is not even a database running on that host! I look inside the rrd file, with rrdtool dump, and there will usualy be only a single data point. Looking in the client logs, which contains the output of the debug code above, there is no indication that the client ever sent any data using anything else but the zone names. So where are these spurious data points coming from? Has anybody seen anything like this? Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

5 36

Xymon Powershell Windows client
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Hi all, Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN (in sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing these changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now for around 8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of benefit to everyone! Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving reliability and most importantly improving performance. In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now takes around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load) servers, the script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this has been reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit. We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house requirements but hopefully useful to others: * Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has been implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime. * Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services sessions test * Ability to restart any stopped Windows service * Client self-update * Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external scripts) Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration which was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry settings if you prefer). In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word document which describes how to install and the configuration options. I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history of development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes and improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as such we are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix, branch or whatever, please do so! Zak Beck Accenture

12 26

Bug in 4.3.18 HTTPD graph display
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Hi everyone, I upgraded from 4.3.17 to 4.3.18 recently, and after the upgrade I noticed that some of my custom graphs have disappeared. It seems that anytime I have a dash in the test name the graph doesn't work at all. The RRD files exist and are still being updated, and they all worked in 4.3.17 with no errors. Additionally, I'm getting error messages like this in some of my HTTPD logs for graphs that do still work as well as the ones that no longer work: 2015-02-26 10:08:36 Sendto failed: Connection refused, referer: http://retv6100.na.lzb.hq/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=rets5032.na.lzb.hq&SE… Here's the full request: 10.1.28.203 - - [26/Feb/2015:10:08:36 -0500] "GET /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=rets5032.na.lzb.hq&service=ncv:DBHealth&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&disp=rets5032%2ena%2elzb%2ehq&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1424790516&graph_end=1424963316&graph=hourly&action=view HTTP/1.1" 200 34331 "http://retv6100.na.lzb.hq/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=rets5032.na.lzb.hq&SE…" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)" Any help is appreciated. 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.

2 4