November 2016 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

DelayPurple Tag doesnt work - Any Other way to Delay Purple?
by freesoftwareservers＠gmail.com 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Based on the Man page for hosts.cfg, I read about delayred, so I tried delaypurple, which I want to delay for an hour. This is not working, and based on the "Default Host" part, I think it's not a code error, I think that only delayred/yellow exist. Is there a way to delay purple for a single check for an hour>? NOTE: The ".default." host entry will only accept the following tags - others are silently ignored: delayyellow, delayred, NOCOLUMNS, COMMENT, DESCR, CLASS, dialup, testip, nonongreen, nodisp, noinfo, notrends, noclient, TRENDS, NOPROPRED, NOPROPYELLOW, NOPROPPURPLE, NOPROPACK, REPORTTIME, WARNPCT, NET, noclear, nosslcert, ssldays, DOWNTIME, depends, noping, noconn, trace, notrace, HIDEHTTP, browser, pulldata. Specifically, note that network tests, "badTEST" settings, and alternate pageset relations cannot be listed on the ".default." host.

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telnet test leaving port hung.
by KK1051＠att.com 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Xymon folks, I am running Xymon 4.3.10 and I am seeing an issue with the telnet test going to a Cisco term server (router with async cards to serial device). Randomly the term server will hang and show a refuse connection. We the term server is checked the hung session came from the Xymon server. When I check the Xymon server netstat I do not show a connection to the term server. I get the term server port cleared and we are ok again. Anyone see this behavior? -Kevin

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unusual xymon web page
by usaims＠yahoo.com 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Disregard, this was resolved by enabling either one or both of these modules in Ubuntu's apache. mime_magiccgid On Friday, November 25, 2016 11:57 AM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: This is on Ubuntu 14.04 using the apache2 in Ubuntu's default repository. I just compiled xymon 4.3.27. The main page comes up fine (http://localhost/xymon) but when i click on the cpu, http, or any other red or green diamond, I get a white background with question marks inside a solid black oval in a white background. It seems like the charset is wrong or missing. Correct me if I am wrong. When I access the default index page from Apache2, it works fine. Any clue? TIA! _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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unusual xymon web page
by usaims＠yahoo.com 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

This is on Ubuntu 14.04 using the apache2 in Ubuntu's default repository. I just compiled xymon 4.3.27. The main page comes up fine (http://localhost/xymon) but when i click on the cpu, http, or any other red or green diamond, I get a white background with question marks inside a solid black oval in a white background. It seems like the charset is wrong or missing. Correct me if I am wrong. When I access the default index page from Apache2, it works fine. Any clue? TIA!

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Disable/Ignore MEMSWAP for Specific Host
by Brad.Radjoo＠mtn.com 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

G'Day, Is there a way to completely ignore MEMSWAP values that are outputting invalid values like the below ? [yellow] Swap/Page 1759218M 32767M 0% - invalid data Kind Regards, - - - - Bradley "This email is confidential. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply email and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person as to do so could be a breach of confidentiality. Thank you for your co-operation. " "The information contained in this message is intended solely for the individual to whom it is specifically and originally addressed. This message and its contents may contain confidential or privileged information from MTN Group. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or distribution, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please notify MTN Group immediately and delete it. MTN Group does not accept any liability or responsibility if action is taken in reliance on the contents of this information . Note that all personal emails are not authorized by MTN Group. "

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how to debug problem: rrd not updated (custom graph)
by hanthethanh＠gmail.com 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Hi, I added a custom graph to xymon and got the graph rendered, but after a while the rrd files are not updated. Any hint how to debug this problem please? Regards, Thanh

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Can't match alerts.cfg rules
by xymon＠epperson.homelinux.net 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

I have 4.3.27-1.el7.terabithia running on Centos 7, and can't get any rules in alerts.cfg.to match and fire an alert. I have in hosts.cfg: 192.168.2.31 phone-sales # conn In alerts.cfg: HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com ## Wildcard rule HOST=%^.*$ COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com Made the wildcard rule a regexp because "HOST=*" wasn't working, and added the host-specific rule because no wildcard was working. But if I trigger a red on host phone-sales, in alert.log I see: Checking criteria for host 'phone-sales', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire What am I missing? I retired a year and a half ago, and have been out of practice, so feel free to start with "You dummy...."

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ports/procs flapping
by bb4＠richter-it.net 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Charles, in the webinterface of Xymon you have for the most tests a link called "Client data" below the status. If you click on it you'll see a text output in your browser that starts with something like "[collector:]". Scroll down to the end of the file and see if the last entry is something about "[clock]" and "epoch", "local" and "UTC". If not then maybe the data sent from the client to the server got truncated and you might see a yellow alert for xymond. Or you find something about it in you Xymon server logs. I had similar problems with some hosts where a lot of connections were in state "ESTABLISHED" or "TIME_WAIT" that filled up the data file and on server side some MAXMSG* parameter is set too low. You'll have to adjust that parameter and restart the Xymon server component. HTH Torsten On 17.11.2016 22:00, charles slater via Xymon wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?search=0x899093AC&op=get -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlguIuQACgkQ7DlmxomQk6xqEgCcDPCIGaQnxhSYhqUdQdQegT9o 2XIAoLr/V9HnsvtmtqALWRMhzRerwIWE =Ohx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xymond not accepting connections
by David.Mills＠hhsc.state.tx.us 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Hi, all! We have a rather murky situation. A colleague accidentally completely removed the Xymon (4.3.3 / Solaris) server home directory recently. It was restored from backups, but since then that server has not been completely functioning. ('Don't know if our symptoms are related to the home dir "zap" or what...) We periodically run the ghostlist.cgi app from cron and now these instances sometimes don't exit. When I run truss on them, I see they are almost continuously calling brk(): allocating anonymous memory for that instance's heap. It's gotten so bad that we've had this server's resources completely depleted and now have had to turn off the cron jobs The xymond daemon is no longer accepting connections, despite the fact that this server has been stable for years. The system was rebooted last night and seemed to be functioning throughout the night but stopped updating around 7:30 AM Confirmed xymond is no longer accepting connections via: 17:03:49 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> telnet 127.0.0.1 1984 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused 17:02:53 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> ps -u hobbit -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD hobbit 4132 4131 1 17:02:36 ? 0:26 xymond --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/xymond.pid --restart=/export/xymon/server/tmp/x hobbit 4288 4279 0 17:03:01 ? 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 12895 12867 0 10:54:01 pts/5 0:00 -bash hobbit 4278 1908 0 17:03:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/local/devmon/bin/restart.devmon> /dev/null 2>&1 hobbit 12491 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12490 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12487 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 15958 5466 0 11:20:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 15612 5466 0 11:17:01 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 17158 5466 0 03:45:03 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12488 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12489 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 4290 4289 0 17:03:01 ? 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 4257 4143 0 17:02:46 ? 0:00 /home/hobbit/xymon/client/bin/xymon 0.0.0.0 @ hobbit 15776 5466 0 11:18:51 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 4148 4141 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 /export/xymon/server/bin/xymonnet --ping --checkresponse --timeout=10 --dns-tim hobbit 4279 4278 0 17:03:01 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /usr/local/devmon/bin/restart.devmon hobbit 4135 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/xymon/clientdata.log xymond_clie hobbit 4140 4131 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timeout=10 --dns-timeout=2 --dnslog= hobbit 4141 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /export/xymon/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh hobbit 4137 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-data.log xymond_rrd --rr hobbit 4144 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/data.log xymond_filestore -- hobbit 4131 1 0 17:02:36 ? 0:00 /export/xymon-4.3.3/server/bin/xymonlaunch --config=/export/xymon-4.3.3/server/ hobbit 4136 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-status.log xymond_rrd hobbit 4133 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/xymon/history.log xymond_history hobbit 12912 12885 0 10:54:09 pts/7 0:00 -bash hobbit 4143 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /export/xymon-4.3.3/client/bin/xymonclient.sh hobbit 4289 4288 0 17:03:01 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 4139 4131 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 xymongen --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=2 --ignorecolumns=files --tooltips=never hobbit 4134 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/xymon/alert.log xymond_alert --che hobbit 4138 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/xymon/hostdata.log xymond_hostda The only other clue I've been able to find is this note in the xymonlaunch.log file: 15:29:24 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> tail -50f xymonlaunch.log ... 2016-11-17 13:54:36 xymonlaunch starting 2016-11-17 13:54:36 Loading tasklist configuration from /export/xymon-4.3.3/server/etc/tasks.cfg 2016-11-17 13:54:36 Loading hostnames 2016-11-17 13:54:41 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME 2016-11-17 13:57:44 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME 2016-11-17 14:00:46 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME Yet, when I tried this, as well as grep'ing through xymonlaunch "truss" output for HOME, I see valid home directory values: 13:58:35 pwsu020:~> echo 'echo HOME=$HOME XYMSRV=$XYMSRV XYMSERVERS=$XYMSERVERS XYMONDPORT=$XYMONDPORT' | /home/hobbit/xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd 2016-11-17 13:58:38 Using default environment file /export/xymon-4.3.3/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg HOME=/home/hobbit XYMSRV=0.0.0.0 XYMSERVERS=10.235.57.11 10.235.157.56 XYMONDPORT=1984 Help! david ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman (512) 595-1238 (mobile)

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Dump server config
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Hey, Is there any way to see the server config as Xymon sees it?? I made some changes to xymonserver.cfg and I don't think they are being picked up. I looked at the man pages but either missed it or it's not there. thanks =G=

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