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WinPSClient configuration question.
by me＠tdiehl.org 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi, I am getting ready to migrate from BBWin to the WinPSClient. In my testing I cannot find a way to set the class. With bbwin, there is a setting called "configclass" value="win32". I have various entries in analysis.d with entries like the following: CLASS=e2013 LOAD 80 90 # Load threholds are in % MEMPHYS 99 101 MEMSWAP 90 97 MEMACT 97 99 PORT STATE=LISTENING MIN=0 TRACK=Listen TEXT=Listen SVC MSExchangeADTopology startup=automatic status=started SVC MSExchangeAntispamUpdate startup=automatic status=started SVC MSExchangeDelivery startup=automatic status=started SVC MSExchangeDiagnostics startup=automatic status=started SVC MSExchangeEdgeSync startup=automatic status=started ... This allows me to set the configclass variable to e2013 and xymon will use that to process the data from that client. This allows me to greatly simplify the xymon configuration. Is it possible to replicate this behavior with WinPSClient? Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org

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Troubleshooting XymonPS
by rectifier＠gmail.com 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Set clientsoftware entry in xml config file to bbwin and it's working now. Thanks to all S On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Steve B <rectifier at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Brandon, > > unfortunately no change with switching off the evt logs. > > I have found an error though in clientdata.log: > > clientdata.log:2015-03-19 16:16:51 No client backend for OS 'powershell' > sent by (ip address of host) > > so will look into it from this angle. > > cheers! > > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> > wrote: > >> Something else to try is turn off eventlog collection in the powershell >> client and/or increase the MAXMSG sizes in the hobbit equivalent of the >> xymonserver.cfg and see if that makes a difference. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> *Brandon * >> >> >> >> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve B >> *Sent:* Thursday, 19 March 2015 6:19 AM >> *To:* Xymon at xymon.com >> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Troubleshooting XymonPS [senderbase] >> >> >> >> Hi John, >> >> no - nothing. I had actually tested this out by removing the host from >> bb-hosts and then it did appear in the ghost client list. >> >> rgds >> >> S >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM, <john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com> >> wrote: >> >> Dumb question #1 – is there anything showing up in the ghost client list? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> John >> >> Upcoming PTO: >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> >> John Rothlisberger >> >> IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform >> >> TGP for Business Process Outsourcing >> >> Accenture >> >> 312.693.3136 office >> >> >> > >

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Xymon PowerShell Windows client
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hi all, For some reason, my spam filter seems to have been penalizing xymon emails (perhaps a few too many commits coming through ;) ), and I missed this entire thread. I've just pushed an update into 4.3.19 that should take care of adding this into the RRD parsers: https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7609/. It seems to work on reports from my Win8x64 machine, but additional testing and validation would be greatly appreciated. In somewhat related news: I'm still looking at a few bug reports that I believe I missed (thank goodness for list archives!), but I'm currently hoping to put together a 4.3.19-RC1 within the next few days. And if all goes well, a full release perhaps by the end of this coming week. Regards, -jc

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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

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who.dll in Windows 8?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

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Redhat Memory Question
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

I have never monitored any Redhat systems before, all Solaris in the past for the most part. Since top and free always show all the physical memory in use on Redhat, how do people monitor memory usage accurately with Xymon? Currently the Memory tag shows as yellow under this new Redhat server, though in my mind it should be green. Mem: 16435916k total, 16311612k used, 124304k free, 6255112k buffers Swap: 18481144k total, 0k used, 18481144k free, 6391000k cached total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16435916 16311588 124328 0 6255116 6391040 -/+ buffers/cache: 3665432 12770484 Swap: 18481144 0 18481144 Thanks in advance Wes Neal

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Redhat Memory Question
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:25 AM Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > I have never monitored any Redhat systems before, all Solaris in the past > for the most part. Since top and free always show all the physical memory > in use on Redhat, how do people monitor memory usage accurately with Xymon? Xymon tracks swap usage, physical memory usage, and "actual" memory usage. The last of these is what most people care about. In analysis.cfg you can set thresholds on any of these. On my system the thresholds for physical memory usage are 100% for yellow and 101% for red. Under Linux, "actual memory" is obtained from the output of "free" which is recorded in the [free] section of the client data, specifically from the "buffers/cache" line. The value for "actual used" comes from the first number. The "actual total" is the total physical memory and is the first number in the "Mem:" line. Currently the Memory tag shows as yellow under this new Redhat server, > though in my mind it should be green. > For actual memory usage, yes. Mem: 16435916k total, 16311612k used, 124304k free, 6255112k buffers > Swap: 18481144k total, 0k used, 18481144k free, 6391000k cached > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 16435916 16311588 124328 0 6255116 6391040 > -/+ buffers/cache: 3665432 12770484 > Swap: 18481144 0 18481144 > In your case, on your "memory" status page you would see "Actual 3579M 16050M 22%" meaning 3.5GB non-cache/buffer RAM usage used out of 16GB total physical RAM, which is 22%. So actual usage is 22%. If your yellow threshold for MEMACT is the default of 90, then this 22% is well short of triggering a yellow condition. And it must be something else. On your memory status page each line should have its own coloured dot. Which of the lines has a yellow dot? I'm guessing it's the "Physical", and someone has modified the MEMPHYS threshold in analysis.cfg to go yellow at 99% instead of 100%. J

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Dependencies for xymond and xymonnet (with particular reference to JC's terabithia.org RPMs)
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hi JC, This may be off-topic for everyone else as I'm talking about an unofficial RPM (I know), but just to get this into the mailing list archive... I want to install xymon server on a system, but it will be forwarding its results to another xymon server and therefore I have no need for web pages, RRD files, etc. In fact, I think I only need xymond, xymonnet and an add-on monitor. (Plus xymon-client.) When I try and install your RPM, it wants to install all sorts of things I don't want like apache and libX11 (see below). Installing: xymon Installing for dependencies: apr apr-util apr-util-ldap audit-libs-python cairo dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts fontconfig fontpackages-filesystem fping freetype httpd httpd-tools libX11 libX11-common libXau libXft libXrender libcgroup libselinux-python libsemanage-python libthai libxcb mailcap net-snmp-libs pango pixman policycoreutils-python rrdtool setools-libs setools-libs-python Transaction Summary ============================= Install 33 Package(s) How should I do a minimal install? (I have your repo mirrored, but you can't exclude dependencies with yum AFAIK.) I just did a: # sudo rpm -i fping-3.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm <no errors> # sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm <output below> warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 30: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 31: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 32: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 33: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 34: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 35: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 36: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory Realizing that I probably needed /usr/sbin/semanage at least, I did: # sudo rpm -e xymon warning: /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg saved as /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.rpmsave # sudo rm -fR /etc/xymon # sudo yum install setools-libs-python # sudo yum install policycoreutils-python And what the heck, it's just one package that I may use and xymon wants it directly, rather than a dependency of a dependency, so: # sudo yum install net-snmp-libs # sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root Should I have any problems that you foresee? Thanks and kind regards, SebA

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xymon administrator passwd
by anelkamm＠gmail.com 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Good day I'm having a problem with the xymon administrator password, it keeps on requesting the credentials. Kind Regards Michael

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Redhat Memory Question
by feld＠feld.me 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Honestly, memory usage should never go red unless there is enough memory pressure to generate a lot of swap paging I/O. Maximizing memory usage is a feature of a modern OS. I'm surprised your swap is completely empty on that server. Swap is meant to be used.

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