March 2015 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Google Code shutting down
by solitaryr＠gmail.com 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

In case you missed it and have a Xymon project in the Google Code site: http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/13/google-code-closing/ =G=

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Help
by aleskrek＠yahoo.com 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

velcom at Xymon:~$ sudo -u xymon /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start sudo: unable to resolve host Xymon Xymon started How can i resolve that problem. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. Then i have another problem. I can't see main page on my server? What could be wrong? Tnx for help.

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Windows Powershell client v2.00
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Hi I have today committed v2.00. Changes: * added RepeatTest - a way of having a test repeated as many times as you need with a new name so you can configure custom alerts * added event logs summary to msgs tab * amend log so that it can optionally take a parameter to control how long before old log entries roll off the report - this done by manipulating how many positions are saved for a log file The XymonPSClient.doc file has been updated. The big new feature is repeattest - this may be useful if you have multiple teams looking after different aspects of your servers, for example, a DBA team responsible for databases and an Ops team responsible for everything else. Repeattest allows you to create duplicates of your test data that appear as extra entries on the dashboard and therefore you can create separate alert configurations. It also allows you to trigger red or yellow statuses depending on the data in the duplicated test result. Zak

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New client problems
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

I have a new machine running Centos 6.6 that for the life of me I can not get started. I compiled 4.3.17 and 4.3.18 to see if it was a bug. With both versions I get the same results. I've got it narrowed down to the point where is definitely a machine/client problem. With tcpdump I've shown that there are no packets being generated after the (Xymon) client is started. I can ping the server and create a handshake (telnet) to 1984 on the server. ps running: http://pastebin.com/8sbjyzRs At this time SElinux is flat out disabled $ sestatus SELinux status: disabled Host is just one IP, to rule out DNS problems. $ head `pwd`/xymonclient.cfg # Environment settings for the Xymon client. XYMSRV="1.1.1.1" # IP address of the Xymon server Any suggestions would be very much appreciated and welcomed! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

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good or bad html "tags" not showing in web page "msgs" report
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

I have a log entry that looks like this: [2015-03-02 13:32:43.011110] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/ZUMA/zumaamericaseight/docs/364/090 :<gfid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> failed (Invalid argument) This is in the gluster NFS log. I wanted to stop getting alarms on this log entry, so I looked at what I get when I click on the red icon under "msgs" in my browser ... only that shows up like this (not exactly the same log entry, but the format is the same): .2015-03-13 22:48:18.447034] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/IS/isphotos/docs/056/515 : failed (Invalid argument) The problem is that the browser interpreted the part starting with "<gfid:" and ending with ">" as an HTML tag, so it didn't display it. I did not realize this was happening, so I built an "ignore" line for client-local.cfg that did not include that part, and I was really scratching my head as to why my ignore did not work. Would it be possible to automatically convert characters in log entries that are special to HTML into their HTML equivalents for display in a browser? In this case, < would become < ... > would be %gt; ... and so on. Thanks, Shawn

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Acknowledge log report anyone?
by abs＠shadymint.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Hi, Has anyone got anything that will search and report on the acknowledge log in the manner that notifications.cgi will do for the notification log? Thanks -- Andy

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Externals Issues
by john＠executech.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I've been trying to use bbwin to send a status message to our hobbit server (we haven't upgraded to Xymon yet). BBWin is generating the file and putting it in the tmp folder and it disappears after a few seconds. And that's the last I see of the message. Nothing shows up on the server. Is there any way to see incoming messages to the server or a log that might tell me why it didn't take the message? My script checks the diskpart and then reports the status of a Windows raid to hobbit in this format: status server,group.raid green Thu 03/12/2015 13:05:13.16 RAID is Okay Volume 0 C NTFS Mirror 931 GB Healthy Boot Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Mirror 100 MB Healthy System Any direction would be very helpful. John Tullis Executech Cell: 801.857.4572 Office: 801.253.4541

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No Interface graphs for hosts on CentOS 7..
by rolf＠glptrading.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I googled, and couldn't find anything regarding this, but I'm not seeing any interface graphs for hosts with CentOS7 / RedHat 7, and I'm trying to understand why. RPMs freshly built from 4.3.18 for CentOS7, the client is running 4.3.18, and the server is 4.3.9. Is there some sort of incompatability here with the output from ifconfig or ifstat? Best regards, Rolf Brusletto Senior Network And Systems Admin Global Liquidity Partners, LLC rolf at glptrading.com 720-763-8163 office 303-638-8013 mobile -- *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, may include non-public, proprietary, confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized agent of an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of the information contained in or transmitted with this e-mail is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and permanently delete this e-mail, its attachments, and any copies of it immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this e-mail or any attachment for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of the contents to any other person.*

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Postfix queue monitor - no graphs
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I'm setting up this client-side monitor: https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:postfix I ran into a number of issues, and I've fixed all but one of them. The graphs aren't working. I followed all the instructions on that page, except that the config files I edited did not have "hobbit" in the name because I'm running 4.3.14 on the server and 4.3.7 on the client. What troubleshooting steps do I need to follow to figure out if I did something wrong with the graphing config and what to change? The major problem I encountered and fixed was permission related. The xymon user cannot read postfix queues, and the postfix user cannot write to the xymon client tmp directory. I solved this with these changes to the client system: In /etc/sudoers.d/xymon: xymon ALL=(postfix : xymon) SETENV:NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/xymon/client/ext/postfix.sh In /etc/xymon/clientlaunch.d/xymon/postfix.cfg: CMD /usr/bin/sudo -E -u postfix -g xymon $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/postfix.sh In /var/lib/xymon/tmp: chmod g+w -R . Is that a reasonable permission fix, or should I have done it a different way? Separate issue, more annoying than a real problem: Both xymonton and the download site for the postfix queue monitor script are using self-signed certificates. It is not difficult to obtain zero-cost publicly-signed certificates that work in all modern browsers, so I think this should be fixed. Thanks, Shawn

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Client Side Scripts
by dallas＠ekkysoftware.com 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Hello Xymon, What I was looking to do, was to monitor a remote server with a custom script and run a 'http' web-server test. I was thinking along the lines of a script forming an alert. So the monitored server will have http://remote.server.com/cgi-bin/test-server.pl for example, and it returns:- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"> <alert> <code>1002</code> <message>MySQL connection refused</message> </alert> When Xymon would receive the xml output and process the message accordingly. Can this be done? Thanks, Dallas.

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