May 2015 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Need help with upgrade from 4.3.17 to 4.3.20
by vadud3＠gmail.com 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

I am not sure what I need to after the upgrade for the columns to show data instead of something like this ELF �� >� �� @��@�� Þ ��@�8� �@�%�"� �� @��@�@��@�@��ø ��ø �� 8 ��8 @��8 @�� @��@��ää��ää�� I removed FollowSymLinks from xymon-apache.conf file under /xymon-cgi/ and /xymon-seccgi/ and restarted. I am using ubuntu -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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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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Graphs of disk usage and active node on Windows cluster
by david.baldwin＠ausport.gov.au 29 May '15

29 May '15

I have a Windows cluster that hosts various file shares on cluster disks. I realized today that I can report on usage of the cluster disk and the node it is running on in a single graph. In my case it works because I have 2 nodes in the cluster, and a graph has 4 lines so a given graph has 2 x 2 disk lines appearing on it. So I have the cluster IP and the 2 nodes in my hosts.cfg file. I then went into the cluster directory in the RRD storage area and created some symlinks. Due to the FNPATTERN matching of the [disk] graph I then see [disk] graphs in my trends report for the cluster. A given daily graph may only show one colour, but by clicking on the graph, the longer timescales show the data lines from each node as the resource moves between them over time. [disk] FNPATTERN disk(.*).rrd TITLE Disk Utilization YAXIS % Full DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n So my symlink hack was just this: % cd <RRDpath>/fs1clusv.ausport.gov.au % for d in M N O Q R S ; do for h in 1 2 ; do ln -s ../fs1n${h}sv.ausport.gov.au/disk,${d}.rrd disk,${d},fs1n${h}sv.rrd; done; done If you had more nodes in your cluster you could create extra dummy files to make it up to 4 graphs for 1 drive, or tweak the number of graphs that appear on a graph, maybe with a custom graph definition. This trick could be used for other similar HA scenarios - e.g. load balancer, etc. Sample graphs below. monthly graph monthly graph David. -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commissionhttp://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au 1 Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 Our Values: RESPECT + INTEGRITY + TEAMWORK + EXCELLENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit http://www.ausport.gov.au This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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clientlog nongreen view
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 29 May '15

29 May '15

I upgrade to 4.3.20 and I'm having trouble hiding the new clientlog column from the all non-green view I have been hiding the msgs column by editing the tasks.cfg file like so: [xymongen] ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEEDS xymond GROUP generators CMD xymongen $XYMONGENOPTS --report --nongreen-ignorecolumns=msgs,clientlog --eventignore=msgs LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymongen.log INTERVAL 1m I added clientlog to ignorecolumn and when I restart the xymon service the columns disappears, however it appears again within a minute or so. Regards, Brandon

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Using XymonPSClient with multiple servers
by Russell.Blumenthal＠stonybrookmedicine.edu 28 May '15

28 May '15

I have set up 2 Xymon servers (prod and dev) and am trying to test having the PSClient send to both of those servers. In the xymonclient_config file I have both servers listed in the <servers> setting separated by a space (as per the document). The server I am using used to report to the prod Xymon server using BBWin (which is stopped and disabled). The dev server (listed first in config) is receiving the data properly but the prod server (listed second) does not seem to be receiving any data from the PSClient. Any ideas? This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by e-mail and destroy all copies of the original.

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dbcheck Oracle: Ignoring InvObj ?
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hello out there, i have a setup of Xymon 4.3.11. This setup includes the Hobbit Client for BEA, NetApp and DB. With this, we are monitoring several databases like Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL. Today a database admin came to me asking me if I could configure the Oracle check to ignore an InvObj (Invalid Object). I don't want to ignore the whole test, but only a single keyword of it's result... I know I can configure i. e. a special tablespace in a DB section to override the defaults.... But I don't know the syntax of the things that I want. Can anybody lead me to the point on how to achieve this? I think I have to include a statement in the following section of dbcheck.ini: [ORADB] dbtype = Oracle hostname = databaseserver.my.domain sid = DBSID username = DBUSER password = DBPASS port = 1521 But I don't know exactly what I have to include here... Regards Christian Christian Becker IT-Services Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net> _________________________________ Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH August-Horch-Straße 28 D-56070 Koblenz Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121 Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2 www.rhein-zeitung.de<http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/>

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(Take 2) Re: Using proxy for http requests
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 25 May '15

25 May '15

(Sorry, hit 'Send' a little too early there.) Agreed that that's probably something that should be taken into account as well. The key is the principle of least surprise for a sysadmin who's monitoring things. As to whether presuming the system proxy should be used or whether we should assume that testing http://www.example.net/ means testing just that, I'm not sure the answer to. There other big issue, in particular is that there's no specific syntax for *ignoring* a proxy, so before any sort of global override is allowed, there'd need to be a means for that. Regards, -jc On Sun, May 24, 2015 5:54 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: > So it won't honor the system proxy server environment variable (ie, export http_proxy=myproxy.example.com:3128)? Seems like a bit of an > oversight...I could understand if you want to override the proxy to use something different but not just ignore it. Note...this is from the xymon server only. > > =G= > > ________________________________________ > From: J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 2:55 PM > To: Galen Johnson > Cc: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Using proxy for http requests > > On Sat, May 23, 2015 6:21 pm, Galen Johnson wrote: >> ?Bumping this in case it got lost in the upgrade issue flood... >> >> >> =G= >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> >> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:25 AM >> To: xymon at xymon.com >> Subject: [Xymon] Using proxy for http requests >> >> >> I must be somewhat dense today but I need to use a proxy server for ALL http requests and I can't tell if I need to use --proxy (and if so, which >> stanza since this is a built-in server-side test) or if I just set the environment variable http_proxy= will work. I would prefer not to have to >> add it to all of my http tests individually and it's also not clear if that syntax will work for the "apache=" entries. >> > > I'm looking through the code and it seems that for xymonnet http testing (as opposed to submitting messages via HTTP and xymoncgimsg.cgi), there's no universal way of specifying a proxy for all URLs that are being tested. > > The proxy needs to be added to the URL as in > https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAR and then --bb-proxy-syntax needs to tb enabled on the xymonnet command line https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man1/xymonnet.1.html#lbAH > > http_proxy= (and --proxy) are used by the xymon command-line utility for submitting messages, but not testing. > > > On the bright side, this _should_ work for apache= tests as well (along with any of the http test variants, like post/soap, etc). > > This seems like something that could be added in in a future release, either on a per-host, a per-.default.-host, a global variable basis. > > > Regards, > > -jc >

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Using proxy for http requests
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 25 May '15

25 May '15

I must be somewhat dense today but I need to use a proxy server for ALL http requests and I can't tell if I need to use --proxy (and if so, which stanza since this is a built-in server-side test) or if I just set the environment variable http_proxy= will work. I would prefer not to have to add it to all of my http tests individually and it's also not clear if that syntax will work for the "apache=" entries. =G=

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