April 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

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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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Missing events on server's history page?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 07 May '15

07 May '15

Running xymon 4.3.17 , on linux, wondering if anyone's seen anything like this? for example our "edapps2-cf2" just alerted on cpu. The non-green view shows these most recent event Wed Apr 22 09:33:25 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu (yellow->green) Wed Apr 22 09:28:24 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu (red->yellow) Wed Apr 22 09:18:22 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu (yellow->red) Wed Apr 22 09:08:19 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu (green->yellow) When we go to the host page then cpu dot,and look at the full history we don't see them All log entries Date Status Duration Mon Apr 13 17:00:44 2015 8 days 16:40:47 (green) Mon Apr 13 16:45:41 2015 0:15:03 (yellow) Tue Mar 24 19:11:14 2015 19 days 21:34:27 (green) When we look at Reports/Event log they show up Wed Apr 22 09:43:45 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com http green >From -> To yellow Wed Apr 22 09:33:25 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu yellow >From -> To green Wed Apr 22 09:28:24 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu red From -> To yellow Wed Apr 22 09:18:22 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu yellow >From -> To red Wed Apr 22 09:08:19 2015 edapps2-cf2.example.com cpu green From -> To yellow why aren't they on the host/cpu history page? thanks for any clues/explanation. We do see other events with shorter duration on that history page

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wrong memory report with free command from procps-ng
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 07 May '15

07 May '15

Hi, Using Xymon 4.3.19, we noticed that all our RHEL 7 systems are reporting wrong values. These systems now use free from procps-ng 3.3.10 whose output has changed. -- free output on RHEL 5/6 --- [bb at prdexp ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 65916528 63391732 2524796 1376104 1484472 47773272 -/+ buffers/cache: 14133988 51782540 Swap: 16777212 180816 16596396 --- free output on RHEL 7 --- [bb at hns ~]$ free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 8011888 318844 3365516 98788 4327528 7275020 Swap: 8388604 0 8388604 The "-/+ buffers/cache:" has disappeared, the "used" is now calculated as total - free - buffers - cache, and there is an "available" column which is an "Estimation of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping". The man page details all that. Dominique University of Lausanne

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Disabling all emails from all tests.
by solitaryr＠gmail.com 07 May '15

07 May '15

Just disable the alerts. Tests will continue to send to the server, you just won't be notified. On Apr 28, 2015 12:56 PM, "usa ims via Xymon" <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com> > To: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:56:00 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Disabling all emails from all tests. > Hi, I'm running xymon 4.3.7 > > I want to write a script to disable all emails from all tests but to > continue reporting to the display server. > > What is the most efficient way of doing this? > > Thanks in advance. > > usaims > >

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Xymon PS Client and External VBS scripts
by martin.wojak＠delwp.vic.gov.au 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

Dear All, Does anyone have a way to run VBS External scripts via Windows Schedule Tasks, and send the results directly back to the Xymon Server? Martin. ----- Forwarded by Martin Wojak/DSE/VICGOV1 on 30/04/2015 03:06 PM ----- From: Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> To: "martin.wojak at delwp.vic.gov.au" <martin.wojak at delwp.vic.gov.au>, Cc: "stef.coene at docum.org" <stef.coene at docum.org> Date: 30/04/2015 01:44 PM Subject: RE: Xymon PS Client and External VBS scripts Hey Martin, I’m also just a sysadmin, this is something I have wanted to do as well as there are some vbscripts I could use as externals but haven’t worked out an easy way yet. I don’t really know vbscript either which doesn’t help L These are the options I can think of: 1. Use bbwin just for these external tests. 2. Use Get-Content somehow in powershell to get the information you need from the output of those scripts and send that to xymon using xymonsend 3. I “think” there is a way to run vbscript code inside powershell, you could possibly put it inside a powershell script and send directly to xymon. The last and ideal option is rewrite them in powershell, I know there are some similar scripts already out there but they would need to be modified to work with xymon. For example https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Get-PendingReboot-Query-… and there are some nagios scripts that do similar things. Option 1 is the easiest if you don’t have the time to play around with PowerShell especially if you already have bbwin on all those servers. You should be able to just disable all the normal tests for the bbwin client by commenting out something in the .cfg file and use it only to send these externals. Regards, Brandon Dale Network Administrator Kitchen | Group 1 Wella Way Somersby, NSW, 2250 T (02) 4343 6000 | D (02) 4343 6052 | F (02) 4343 6080 E BDale at kitchengroup.com.au please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Disclaimer: This communication is confidential and intended only for the addressee. It may contain legally privileged information. By the use of email over the Internet, Kitchen Group is not waiving either confidentiality of, or legal privilege in, the contents of this email and any attachments. If you are not the addressee you may not use, disseminate or copy this information. If you have received this information in error please notify us immediately. Whilst we have taken all reasonable care to ensure that neither our system, this email nor any attachments has a virus, it is impossible to guard against every possible virus. We advise you to scan the email and any attachments with your anti virus software prior to use. We do not accept liability for any loss or damage which may arise from receipt of this email or any attachments. From: martin.wojak at delwp.vic.gov.au [mailto:martin.wojak at delwp.vic.gov.au] Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2015 4:02 PM To: Brandon Dale Cc: stef.coene at docum.org Subject: Xymon PS Client and External VBS scripts Hi Brandon, I'm trying to migrate our 300 VMs from bbwin to PS-client. I love some of the new functionality of the PS client, that bbwin doesn't have (eg. dirtime, dirsize, restart failed service). But I have 2 External VBS scripts that I would like to keep using. I had a look at converting our 2 VBS scripts that are currently called from BBwin, to be able to use xymonsend.ps1 (or some other way), to talk directly to our Xymon server. I couldn't work out how to do it. I'm just a SysAdmin, not a programmer or developer, so not very good with VB or PS. If you have time, and would be easy to do, can you work out how I can make these 2 scripts operate as Windows Scheduled tasks and send data directly to our Xymon server. Ta. Martin. Martin Wojak | Senior Infrastructure Support Officer (Fire) |Information Services Division Corporate Services | Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning Level 9, 8 Nicholson St, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002 T: 03 9637 8470 | M: 0421 445 529 | E: martin.wojak at delwp.vic.gov.au ----- Forwarded by Martin Wojak/DSE/VICGOV1 on 23/04/2015 02:00 PM ----- From: Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> To: Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org>, "xymon at xymon.com" < xymon at xymon.com>, Date: 08/04/2015 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon PS Client Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Might be a better way but this is how I do it (my external scripts are written in PowerShell however) 1. I put http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/xymonsend… onto each server inside the same directory as the PowerShell client 2. I dot source this into my external scripts (which I normally store in c:\xymon\ext to keep it simple) and use it to send the status messages to xymon. 3. Run these as scheduled tasks in windows.

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Xymon has stopped updating
by y.goudetsidis＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Hello everyone I have noticed some strange behaviour lately with Xymon. The main page gets stuck and does not update itself. At the moment it's stuck on the 28th of April. Last time it happened I realised it after 4 days. The only fix is to reboot the xymon server. I can't see anything in the log files. All I see is the xymon service getting restarted. Any suggestions please? If you have any ideas please let me know. Many thanks Yanni

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Disabling all emails from all tests.
by usaims＠yahoo.com 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi, I'm running xymon 4.3.7 I want to write a script to disable all emails from all tests but to continue reporting to the display server. What is the most efficient way of doing this? Thanks in advance. usaims

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