April 2015 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Red alert delay.
by Phil.Crooker＠orix.com.au 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

>Hi all, >I do want to delay CPU load red alert. As you know the default yellow or red based on the >threshold number but I want that include time delay. If the CPU load 9 and stay like that for 15 >min the color to change red instead of turn red immidiatly reach 8. > >Current setup > >Load. 6.0 9.0 > >For idle > >DS CPU vmstat.rrd:CPU_IDL <10 color=red "TEXT=CPU usage critical" > >Thanks >--------------------------------------- Have a look at the help text in alerts.cfg. You can use the DURATION flag: # A sample rule: # # HOST=www.foo.com SERVICE=http # MAIL webadmin at foo.com REPEAT=20 RECOVERED # MAIL cio at foo.com DURATION>60 COLOR=red # SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsms 1234567890 FORMAT=SMS cheers.

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Red alert delay.
by eliap09＠yahoo.com 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Red alert delay. From: Eli <eliap09 at yahoo.com> To: xymon at xymon.org CC: Hi all, I do want to delay CPU load red alert. As you know the default yellow or red based on the threshold number but I want that include time delay. If the CPU load 9 and stay like that for 15 min the color to change red instead of turn red immidiatly reach 8. Current setup Load. 6.0 9.0 For idle DS CPU vmstat.rrd:CPU_IDL <10 color=red "TEXT=CPU usage critical" Thanks

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CPU, Disk, Memory graphs not showing for newly added servers
by Sheel.Shah＠rd.com 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hello, So we can monitor performance of a couple of newly transitioned servers, we installed xymon onto those two servers (Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008). We also added them to the hosts.cfg on the xymon server itself. While the 'conn' graph displays correctly, the other default columns (CPU, Disk, Memory, msgs, etc) will not show a graph and just show a dash (-) in that column. We verified port 1984 is opened between the servers and the xymon server itself, and all of our existing servers/graphs in xymon seem to be working fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? Thank you, Sheel Shah Reader's Digest Association

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Xymon PS Client
by stef.coene＠docum.org 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi, We are using the Powershell client on new servers. But we are missing the option to execute external scripts. Has anyone an updated version or written a patch so you can execute external scripts with the Powershell cient? And if not, how do you execute external scripts when using the Powershell client? Stef

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Summary for remotes in 4.3.19 not working
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Is there anyone else having trouble with the summary function in 4.3.19? >From my remote server I am getting the following errors in display.log: 2015-04-06 14:40:15.860975 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed) 2015-04-06 14:40:15.861020 -> Could not connect to Xymon daemon at N.N.N.N:1984 (Connection refused) 2015-04-06 14:40:15.861026 -> Recipient 'N.N.N.N', timeout 15 2015-04-06 14:40:15.861032 -> 1st line: 'summary summary.Remotes.MyRemoteSite red https://my.url.com/MyRemoteSite/ Mon Apr 6 14:40:15 2015' My hosts.cfg file looks like: summary Remotes.MyRemoteSite 63.240.185.103 https://my.url.com/MyRemoteSite/ I have 4 servers that I just upgraded to 4.3.19 and all were a mix from 4.3.18 to 4.3.0 and all worked fine prior to the upgrade. I am able to telnet to N.N.N.N:1984 from my remote sites. I do not have any firewalls running on my main server. Ideas? Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: _____________________________________________________________________ John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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EventMon for BB - has anyone tried it?
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

I found EventMon on the Dell Big Brother forums and I wondered if anyone had tried it (with Xymon especially) or if anyone thinks it is worth trying or if they prefer another solution (which is?): > EventMon v1.5 > > EventMon v1.5 is a standalone event monitor service that allows for > integrating windows event monitors into BB. The service runs on 2000, XP, > 2003, Vista, Windows 7 and 2008, 32 and 64 bit variants and can monitor > any/all of the event logs on the machine. It's a viable replacement for the > msgs test included in BBNT, which is routinely disabled when using this > service, and provides superior filtering and managment of event reporting. > There's a configuation GUI included that allows you to manage the behavior > of the service, the name of the test, BB port and server as well as to > configure rules for how to report events to bb by category, source, event > ID, etc. Users select what events to ignore, and what events to alert and > alarm on, regardless of the type of event (errors can be ignored, or > reported as warnings, information messages can be reported as errors, > classes of messages can be ignored, etc.). Reporting is completely user- > configuratble, including logging messages without alerts or alarms etc.for > historical record. Version 1.5 is a minor upgrade from v1.3, copied to this > site frmom deadcat. This version has some bug fixes as well as a new > parameter, StartFromLastRun, which forces the service, upon starting, to > scan logs starting from the last time the service ran. This parameter > should be set when using BB as the facility to monitor and record all > useful event from a machine. > > Please read the included PDF file for complete instructions. > > Jim Graczyk Ref: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/m /customeo/20440195 Kind regards, SebA

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bb-mrtg.pl
by bferrell＠baywinds.org 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

anyone know what became of it or have a copy they'd care to share?

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Graphs (PCU,MEM,TEMP etc.)
by aleskrek＠yahoo.com 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

I have a problem.I have red hosts.cfg help file but still don't know how to get cpu, memory etc. graphs on my xymon server page. For now i want to monitor just Xymon Server. I really need help with that. I tried a lot of different things but no success. Thank you all for your patience and support, Aleš Krek.

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Monitoring HP Blade Enclosures
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi all Just trying to save myself some time and effort... Is anyone monitoring HP C7000 blade enclosures? Specifically, I want to monitor the power supplies and graph the amount of power they're each putting into the enclosure. Thanks CC

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mounted NFS volumes not included in disk utilization graphs
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Den 31-03-2015 kl. 00:49 skrev Paul Grondahl: > 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? There is a potential problem with including network disks in the "disk" status: If your network connection to the NFS server dies, then the "df" command is likely to stall. So you won't get any client data sent over to the Xymon server, and your entire server goes purple. That is why the Xymon client uses the "-l" (local) flag for df to NOT report on network filesystems. Regards, Henrik

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