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init xymon automatically
by seatuxred＠yahoo.co.uk 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi all, After boot, i want init xymon server and xymon client automatically. How can i do that ? I tried it, coping xymon.init and xymon_client.init to /etc/init.d.after that i used sysv-rc-conf xymon.init on and sysv-rc-conf xymon-client.init on.when i reboot the machine, the xymon server didn´t start automatically. SO : ubuntu hope your comments Thanks a lot.

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SNMP
by jbenedicta＠obopay.com 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi, I'm trying to configure snmp in Xymon to monitor switches abd firewalls. Tell me how to configure xymon for snmp? Thanks, Benedicta J

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How to trigger a server side cycle
by r.oliver＠web.de 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Dear All, as mentioned in the topic: Is it possible to trigger a server side monitoring cycle (for external tests like ping), without having to restart the whole daemon? Thank you!

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custom graph advice
by ohemming＠gmail.com 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

Hello All, I want to create a graph that plots a % based on a couple of entries in a log file. That, in itself, is not the problem. My issue is that a new log file is generated each day but the java garbage collection (which creates the log entries) doesn't run on a schedule. Therefore there will be times (from 00:00 most obviously) when no data is returned. When data is missing, should I leave it null, literally set it to NaN or something else entirely? For example, which of these is recommended? configured_max: post_GC: or configured_max:NaN post_GC:NaN If something else, what should it be?

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Xymon Monitor
by jbenedicta＠obopay.com 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hi, How to configure Xymon to monitor MRTG graph of internet?. And also to monitor internal and external IP's of ISP? Thanks, Benedicta J

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MACHIP
by jbenedicta＠obopay.com 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Hi, I have configured Xymon monitoring tool. I have set a alert script using predefined variables. The email alerts are displaying ip addresses without dot. MACHIP is the varaibale i used in my script. IP addresses is displayed like below 010200108175 Thanks, Benedicta J

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checking for symlinks
by ohemming＠gmail.com 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

I'm using Xymon 4.3.21 on a linux host with mix of linux and solaris clients Is checking whether a file is symlink supported in analysis.cfg? The man page doesn't mention it but client_config.c does look like it should work. I have this in analysis.cfg FILE /etc/.sudoers.local red type=symlink My test goes red with the following statement: File is a file - should be symlink If I click on it, I see this: [file:/etc/.sudoers.local] type:100000 (file, symlink -> /bw/local/etc/.sudoers.local) mode:440 (-r--r-----) linkcount:1 owner:0 (root) group:0 (root) size:102 clock:1435770054 (2015/07/01-17:00:54) atime:1336161370 (2012/05/04-19:56:10) ctime:1377011564 (2013/08/20-15:12:44) mtime:1377011564 (2013/08/20-15:12:44) To prove it's a symlink: # ls -l /etc/.sudoers.local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 2 2011 /etc/.sudoers.local -> /bw/local/etc/.sudoers.local What am I doing wrong?

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CLIENTHOSTNAME and hosts that use FQHNs as their hostname
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

On 23 June 2015 at 00:44, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.dyndns.org> wrote: > But the rest of their systems (all but one) are CentOS 5.8-5.11 and with > xymon-client-4.3.17-1.el5.centos RPMs installed, enabling CLIENTHOSTNAME > in "/etc/sysconfig/xymon-client" apparently has no effect. They all > show up as Ghost Clients. > Maybe try adding into /etc/default/xymon-client or /etc/default/xymon? Some systems use a different location for this file. I think it's defined in the xymonclient.cfg file, like so: include /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client Maybe check if the environment is actually being set as you expect: $ strings /proc/`pgrep -f sh.*vmstat`/environ|egrep "HOST|MACHINE" This will search the environment for the vmstat command run by the Xymon client. >From what I can tell, CLIENTHOSTNAME is used, if defined. The RHEL (CentOS) init script looks for CLIENTHOSTNAME being defined, and if so, appends "--hostname=<whatever>" to the command-line of runclient.sh. This script looks for --hostname and uses the value to defnine the env var MACHINEDOTS=<whatever> and also use it to define MACHINE (with commas instead of dots). If this all works as it should, then when running "service start xymon-client" you should see "Xymon client for Linux started on <whatever>" and the PID file should be called clientlaunch.<whatever>.pid (where <whatever> is what you specify in CLIENTHOSTNAME). Cheers Jeremy

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Custom 60 second interval test still has 5 min interval graph
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

This is correct. The data format for a "round robin database" is fixed at creation time for a certain number of data points at a certain interval, using a certain method for combining them (typically 'AVERAGE' by default). When you're increasing the number of data points you're submitting, you're putting more data in, but you're still only going to see 5 minute average "chunks" (and the larger ones). To actually increase the resolution you're saving at, you'll want to use (I believe) the 'rrdtune' command. Alternatively, some find it easier to export/re-import the data into a new file. HTH, -jc On Tue, June 30, 2015 2:21 pm, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I created a custom test and RRD definition because I wanted to reduce the > interval time on a few graphs from 5 minute resolution to 1 minute. I got > the data to be logged once every minute, which I verified is hitting the > RRD. The problem is that when I view the graph it's still got a > resolution of 5 minutes. > > Here's the partial RRDTool dump: > >  > <row><v> 1.0033333333e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 1.0550000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 5.6333333333e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 7.3166666667e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 7.5000000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 6.2500000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 7.5500000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 9.3333333333e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 5.2666666667e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 7.0666666667e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 6.4000000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 6.4000000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 1.3000000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 9.2000000000e+00 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 3.4650000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 5.7200000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 5.0283333333e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 4.4100000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 4.1500000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 2.4500000000e+01 </v></row> >  > <row><v> 1.2000000000e+01 </v></row> > > So the data is getting logged every 60 seconds. It's also rolling up to > the 5 second, etc, values. > > Here's the line from xymonserver.cfg: > > SPLITNCV_cpustat="*:GAUGE:180:0:100" #Configure for 60 second intervals, > range of 0-100 > > > Here's the lines from rrddefinitions.cfg: > [cpustat] > -s 60 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.1:1:120 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:576 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:30:576 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:120:576 > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:576 > RRA:MAX:0.1:1:120 > RRA:MAX:0.5:5:576 > RRA:MAX:0.5:30:576 > RRA:MAX:0.5:120:576 > RRA:MAX:0.5:1440:576 > > Here's the graph definition: > [cpustat] > FNPATTERN ^cpustat.(.+).rrd > TITLE % CPU usage > YAXIS Percent > DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:lambda:MAX > LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ > GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.0lf (cur) > GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.0lf (max) > GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.0lf (min) > GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.0lf (avg)\n > > > > > I had read that RRDTool should use the lowest resolution available, which > is 1 minute for this RRD. So why are the graphs not going less than 5 > minute intervals when zooming in? Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate > One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | * 734-384-6403 | | * > 7349151444 | * Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:%7BE-mail%7D> > www<http://www.la-z-boy.com/>.la-z-boy.com<http://www.la-z-boy.com/> | > facebook.<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>com<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>/<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>lazboy<http://facebook.com/lazboy> > | twitter.com/lazboy<https://twitter.com/lazboy> | > youtube.com/<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy>lazboy<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy> > > [cid:lzbVertical_hres.jpg] > > > > This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is > addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is > exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing > this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this > information. If you have received this communication in error, please > notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank > you. > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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Leap second bug?
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

acknowledge stopped working and I am seeing this in kernel log Jun 30 19:59:59 xymon kernel: [9190504.141666] Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Jul 1 01:01:25 xymon kernel: [9208590.335087] acknowledge.cgi[28636] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7ffff0588230 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:02:11 xymon kernel: [9208636.570346] acknowledge.cgi[28648] general protection ip:7f0e96fa6d4d sp:7fffb7727110 error:0 in libc-2.11.1.so [7f0e96f2e000+17d000] Jul 1 01:02:12 xymon kernel: [9208637.735009] acknowledge.cgi[28649] general protection ip:7fdf0f935d4d sp:7fff0568aaa0 error:0 in libc-2.11.1.so [7fdf0f8bd000+17d000] Jul 1 01:03:39 xymon kernel: [9208725.079723] acknowledge.cgi[28671] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fffc9fe3710 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:03:45 xymon kernel: [9208731.059767] acknowledge.cgi[28728] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff5e6bab20 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:07:07 xymon kernel: [9208932.366316] acknowledge.cgi[29143] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fffe1682480 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:09:39 xymon kernel: [9209084.831003] acknowledge.cgi[29586] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff7f606850 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:10:27 xymon kernel: [9209132.276118] acknowledge.cgi[29659] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff88726430 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:17:08 xymon kernel: [9209533.387677] acknowledge.cgi[30227] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff77959b70 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 01:46:09 xymon kernel: [9211275.028300] acknowledge.cgi[1167] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff8f579870 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] Jul 1 02:30:03 xymon kernel: [9213908.295878] acknowledge.cgi[6080] general protection ip:40cac0 sp:7fff7a105ca0 error:0 in acknowledge.cgi[400000+24000] I am running xymon 4.3.12 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS -- 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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