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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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Xymon 4.3.19 Released
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hello, Xymon 4.3.19 has been released to SF and should be available on a mirror near you! It can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/ 4.3.19 contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, along with a several new features. - a report on all recent acknowledgements is now available - a specific time range can now be excluded for analysis or alerting purposes with the EXTIME= directive - additional filters are available with the "xymondboard" command, including searching the full body text of a status report - the last position read in a log file is now indicated on the 'msgs' status report - a new 'deltacount' option for counting recent matching lines in a log file - improved Windows PowerShell client support For a full list of changes, see the Changes file inside the tarball. All users of 4.3.x or earlier versions of Xymon are encouraged to upgrade. Regards, -jc

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mounted NFS volumes not included in disk utilization graphs
by paul＠arrowtel.net 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

On several systems with NFS mounts, the mounted volumes are not included in the disk utilization graphs. The volumes are visible in the client data. How does one get them included in the graphs?

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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

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Migrating from BBWin to Xymon PS Client
by Timothy_Persoon＠axi.be 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi, I'm migrating from BBWin to the newest Xymon PS Client. However, there are some settings in the BBWin.cfg file that I can't seem to migrate to the analysis.cfg file. In BBWin there are several message checks: <msgs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1000" /> <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="16385" /> <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="8198" /> <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="489" /> <ignore logfile="System" eventid="6038" /> <setting name="delay" value="1h" /> <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Security" type="fail" /> </msgs> but how do I migrate those to analysis.cfg? There seem to be two options: 1) LOG eventlog_application %^warning COLOR=red 2) LOG eventlog:Application %warning COLOR=red Is there a difference between these two notations and is it even possible to migrate the settings of BBWin.cfg to the analysis.cfg? Kind regards, Timothy

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web configuration of xymon
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi all, We've been adding a lot of servers and services to our xymon monitoring deployment, and it's become somewhat more complex to manage changes to monitored hosts/services, as well as what's critical when, and what alerts are needed when. I'd like to deploy a web interface, with access controls of course, where people can change what systems are monitored, and what services on those systems are monitored, as well as what alerts they get when. Because there is so much flexibility in xymon, this can get fairly complex, and I want to add an error checking web interface to people's ability to change these settings. Does anyone already have something like this? -Tracy

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