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Xymon 4.3.20 Released
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 18 May '15

18 May '15

Hello all, Xymon 4.3.20 has been released to SF and is now available for download. You can get it from a mirror near you at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/ A shout out to all of those who've contributed feature ideas and bug reports along the way... 4.3.20 fixes several long-standing issues dealing with 'summary' reports, pullclient requests, and memory reporting on recent Linux kernels. Some nifty additional functionality includes: - multiple graphs can be displayed (automatically) on a single status report - HEAD-only URL checks can be performed - the raw clientlog now gets its own column on xymon pages, allowing more direct access by users (this can be disabled with the 'noclient' tag) For a full list of changes and features, see the RELEASENOTES and Changes files. Of special note: On new installs, the 'cgiwrap' binary is now hardlinked instead of symlinked from the various calling scripts. This should obviate the need to add FollowSymLinks to those directories in your apache config that was introduced in 4.3.18. Regards, -jc

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suppress log contents from 'msgs' column ?
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 14 May '15

14 May '15

In testing 4.3.20, I've noticed that the 'msgs' column (for hosts running the xymon solaris client) contain lines from my logs even when they are reporting 'green'. I don't really want the contents of /var/adm/messages leaked to every viewer of my Xymon web interface. I now see that this behavior is also on my 4.3.17 server. I've just never noticed it because: A) I never visit any 'green' bubbles B) I only have three hosts running the xymon client When the test goes 'red', I can see value in displaying the offending lines from the log, but I can't see any value in continually leaking arbitrary lines of my logs to arbitrary users. Is there an easy way to suppress these log lines from the green status messages? Argh. I've only now noticed that the 'cpu' column is also spilling all of my running processes. I thought I had taken care of that problem when I suppressed the 'procs' column. Does anyone actually derive value from having this information continually published on the Xymon web interface for all the world to see? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska

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xymonpsclient adreplication test typo
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 13 May '15

13 May '15

I noticed the adreplication test has a typo in the powershell client v2.01. Line 2287 $output = ('status {0}.adreplicaton {1} {2}' -f $script:clientname, $alertColour, $outputtext) It should be adreplication (missing the i) Regards, Brandon

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Xymon 4.3.20-RC1 Available
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 12 May '15

12 May '15

Hello all! I've posted Release Candidate 1 for Xymon 4.3.20, containing all recent bug fixes since 4.3.19, onto Sourceforge. Reachable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.20/xymon-4.3.20-rc1.t… A short list of features/fixes is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.20/, while the full Changelog is at https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.3.20/Changes Please take a pounding on it and let me know if you notice any problems -- especially on non-Linux systems. If all goes according to plan, I'll be releasing the final 4.3.20 later on this week. Regards, -jc

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who.dll in Windows 8?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 12 May '15

12 May '15

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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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Mapping Values to Columns
by turranx＠hotmail.com 12 May '15

12 May '15

I have been looking at the relationships between values returned by client scripts and which web page column reports the status. Let me walk you through some of the data before I pose my questions. This is some output from a Windows machine running the PowerShell client... [memory] memory Total Used physical: 8073 5679 virtual: 12000 952 page: 20071 6710 Out of this data are extracted the values "MEMACT", "MEMPHYS", and "MEMSWAP". They are different measurements, but all affect the color of the column "memory". How they affect the memory column is well documented in the Man page for analysis.cfg, but what maps "MEMACT", "MEMPHYS", and "MEMSWAP" to the column "memory"? What if I wanted to add an additional custom memory-related test and have it also affect the color of the "memory" column? Furthermore, when a server is rebooted the "cpu" column goes yellow, but the column titled "uptime" always stays green. How do I change this? [uptime] sec: 1568818 18 days 3 hours 46 minutes 57 seconds Bootup: 20150420074804.610798-240 I've looked into custom server-side modules and that looks like a step in the right direction, but won't get me 100% of the way there. Can someone send me down the correct path? Thank you, Greg D.

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xymon client - prevent monitoring of test
by ben.poppy＠mcis.com 11 May '15

11 May '15

We recently installed the client onto a debian system, and it is sending back alerts on apt and libs. I've been searching for how to prevent these from even alerting, but haven't been able to. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to prevent the client from even monitoring those 2 columns? Thank you, -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ The contents of this message may contain private, protected and/or privileged information. If you received this message in error, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained within. Please contact the sender and advise of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail or telephone. Thank you for your cooperation.

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(TS) Trying to setup xymon on a VoIP asterisk server
by dtsmon＠gmail.com 08 May '15

08 May '15

I have loaded a CentOS 6.6 server and installed PBX-in-a-Flash (PiaF) VoIP server on it. I then installed xymon on the same server and allow it to use VoIP and text-to-speech for certain urgent and or out-of-ban alerting. This is a home project for me. Before retiring is was monitoring 1,200 devices and using 'ssh' to move requests to the PiaF server for this function. I thought the next logical progression would be to use the same server for both functions. I am having the same problem that I have with just installing a CentOS server with xymon on it. I added the additional commands from the installation to the end of the http configuration file but I cannot bring up the xymon web page. In this installation, the apache runs under 'asterisk/asterisk'. Is there some directive that I am missing to allow apache to access the xymon pages in the xymon installation under the 'xymon/xymon' permissions? I have written many scripts that I cannot test out under the latest xymon software release and make available to the community. This is the same problem that I was having earlier and have not found the solution to. I also wanted to try allowing someone to be able to call into the VoIP side to retire an alert, etc. Thanks, Tom Schmitt

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vagrant example of xymon-4.3.19 server (rhel6) + 3 clients (rhel6, rhel7, ubuntu14)
by marcin.dulak＠gmail.com 08 May '15

08 May '15

Hi, the example is available at https://github.com/marcindulak/vagrant-xymon-tutorial I hope Xymon's beginners will find it useful. In the process of creating it I noticed some problems with the documentation https://www.xymon.com/help/install.html: 1. RHEL6/7 documentation is missing dependencies: yp-tools c-ares-devel 2. Debian documentation is missing dependencies: libc-ares-dev dpkg-dev 3. I believe fping is no longer necessary as a dependency when building RPMS or debs 4. The /etc/init.d for xymon-client seems still missing on Debian/Ubuntu as reported here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.hobbit/30534 Best regards, Marcin

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