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Fwd: Re: Can't match alerts.cfg rules
by xymon＠epperson.homelinux.net 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Ah. It's the DNS affinity thing. Small shop, pro bono support, no split DNS. Putting the host in /etc/hosts made the alert fire. I know what I need to do. -------- Original Message -------- SUBJECT: Re: [Xymon] Can't match alerts.cfg rules DATE: 2016-11-06 16:55 FROM: Jake <xymon at epperson.homelinux.net> TO: xymon at xymon.com On 2016-11-06 1:09, J.C. Cleaver wrote: > On Sat, November 5, 2016 1:14 pm, Jake wrote: > >> 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...." > > Hi, > > Can you show the output of xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config ? That > would help us see what xymond_alert itself is interpreting things as. > > The "Checking criteria for host..." should only apply when xymond_alert > (via loadhosts) hasn't reloaded the hosts.cfg yet (in this instance). That > entry looks normal, though. Does the error get shown every time > xymond_alert starts up? > > Regards, > -jc > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon [1] [root at hccmon xymon]# xymoncmd xymond_alert --dump-config 120 HOST=phone-sales COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 123 HOST=%^.* COLOR=red MAIL somebody at gmail.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 Sorry, I was misinterpreting the "Checking criteria..." message as being triggered by the red code. Perhaps I'm not waiting long enough for the alert to fire before deciding it's not working. But the message is not showing every time I "systemctl restart xymonlaunch.service". Will get back to this in the morning, EST. Thanks, Jake _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon [1] Links: ------ [1] http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Flapping Status??? Unkown IP
by clowther＠gmail.com 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Found my problem... was having a moment... In the Hosts.cfg file I had used Fake Names for the systems and it was trying to use DNS to resolve them... adding testip fixed the problem.... What is the proper way of not Using the hostname? So that it shows a custom name of the webpage instead of the actual hostname? Clayton > David Boyer <mailto:davieb at gmail.com> > Sunday, November 06, 2016 10:20 AM > Add a testip to the line in hosts.cfg to remove DNS from the picture. > If it stays green, you know where the problem is. > > Dave > > > Clayton Lowther <mailto:clowther at gmail.com> > Sunday, November 06, 2016 10:16 AM > Why and where is it getting the 198.105.244.11 address??? I have no > address on my systems. DNS has been checked.... keep getting conn not > ok with this ip on several systems??? > > > Clayton > > > > Sun Nov 6 10:13:59 2016 conn NOT ok > > Service conn on Network-Monitor is not OK : Host does not respond to ping > > > System unreachable for 5 poll periods (1047 seconds) > > red 198.105.244.11 is unreachable > > Clayton Lowther <mailto:clowther at gmail.com> > Sunday, November 06, 2016 9:06 AM > Keep getting systems in the red... On the status page it even shows an > IP address that is not used on my network??? > > here is a copy of the page... > > any Ideas? > > The 198.105 address is not even part of my network... I use all > 192.168.1.* address and that is not the address of the device being > monitored either! > > *WARNING: Flapping status* > > > > Sun Nov 6 16:03:11 2016 conn NOT ok > > Service conn on Access-Point is not OK : Host does not respond to ping > > > System unreachable for 4 poll periods (905 seconds) > > red 198.105.244.11 is unreachable > >

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Flapping Status??? Unkown IP
by clowther＠gmail.com 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Keep getting systems in the red... On the status page it even shows an IP address that is not used on my network??? here is a copy of the page... any Ideas? The 198.105 address is not even part of my network... I use all 192.168.1.* address and that is not the address of the device being monitored either! *WARNING: Flapping status* Sun Nov 6 16:03:11 2016 conn NOT ok Service conn on Access-Point is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 4 poll periods (905 seconds) red 198.105.244.11 is unreachable

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VMware datastore monitor [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

A small amount of googling came up with these as well: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonesxi/ http://www.it-eckert.com/software/vmware-monitor/ Thomas Eckert also has a couple of other interesting monitors and add-ons (like xymonq). =G= ________________________________________ From: Galen Johnson Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2016 10:34 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] VMware datastore monitor [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Even more annoying is that even if you sign up for their community, you still can't download anything. Maybe the script owner watches this list and could post to Xymonton...aka, long shot. =G= ________________________________________ From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Ulric Eriksson <ulric at siag.nu> Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2016 7:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] VMware datastore monitor [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Den 2016-11-03 kl. 23:00, skrev Japheth Cleaver: > On 11/2/2016 5:51 PM, martin.wojak at ecodev.vic.gov.au wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> A couple of years ago, I downloaded a great VMware datastore monitor, >> from dell.com. I've just changed jobs and would like to download it >> again It seems that Dell have now blocked downloads. Does anyone >> have a copy of this script that they can email me? >> >> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/… >> >> >> *_Monitor datastore utilization on VMware ESXi 4.X and 5.X_* >> <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/…> > > > I've searched and I haven't been able to find a copy of this one. :/ I > seem to recall looking at it too a few years ago. I wish I could get > to the point on the site where I could see the .zip file name, as that > might help with finding it. > > More broadly, it's a shame that a lot of this is -- paywalled? -- > unavailable at the very least. Archive.org has some of it, but a > larger collection of the deadcat.net, Quest-era, or Dell-era scripts > would be useful. A little of it made it over to Hobbiton/Xymonton, but > that seemed the SoT for most. Has anyone tried the wayback machine? The disappearance seems to be a result of the Big Brother => Quest => Dell aquisitions. Ulric _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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VMware datastore monitor [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by martin.wojak＠ecodev.vic.gov.au 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Hello All, A couple of years ago, I downloaded a great VMware datastore monitor, from dell.com. I've just changed jobs and would like to download it again It seems that Dell have now blocked downloads. Does anyone have a copy of this script that they can email me? http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/… Monitor datastore utilization on VMware ESXi 4.X and 5.X Monitor datastore utilization of VMware ESXi 4.X and 5.X via using the "Browse datastores on this host" page of ESXi's built-in HTTPS service. This eliminates the need to manage a plugin that uses VMware's labyrinthine RCLI or the vCenter alarm framework, both of which have problems. Simply add a list of hosts (and a login name/password) to the script and run it. This script connects directly to port 1984 instead of calling "bb" from the shell, so you can either run it as a plugin or run it standalone -- even on another host if you want to. This plugin is compatible with Big Brother and it is also compatible with Hobbit/Xymon. Its output simulates that of unix "df" closely enough that if you are running Hobbit/Xymon the utilization graphs will appear as expected. License: open source; GPL v3. Thanks, Martin. ******************************************************************************** Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Government of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. This email, and any attachments, may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not distribute or reproduce this e-mail or the attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by return email. ********************************************************************************

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Installation Problem...
by clowther＠gmail.com 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

I am setting up XYMON on a Rasberry pi 2. The problem I have ran into is Whenever I click on a link on the administration tab or reports it tries to download a .SH file rather than change to the right page??? What am I Missing? Thanks Clayton

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Thanks to JC
by xymon＠epperson.homelinux.net 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Please pardon the gratuitous noise, but JC's yum repo has saved me at least a couple of man days in building a Xymon monitor on Centos 7 for a nonprofit that I now support pro bono, so I want to shout out. I was a Big Brother-->Hobbit-->Xymon practitioner from roughly the beginning before retiring a year and a half ago. I do Fedora (and Xymon) at home, and was a bit out of touch with Red Hat and Centos. Japheth's repo let me get the basic stuff up and running in an hour, and I'm off to the races (took a couple of hours to do the Centos 7 netinstall because it wouldn't DHCP). JC's repo is all the more remarkable given that RPMFusion is as yet still unable to support Centos 7. I do still need to work through monitoring, as best I can, an entirely non-Linux setup. XBlue VOIP phones, Ubiquiti wifi APs, Windows 2008 R2 server with SQL Server, Windows shares over a 3 point VPN. Also, large thanks to Sean and Henrik. Regards to all, Jake

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Page or swap Rate
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Ken On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, 16:39 ken schweiker <kenschweiker at gmail.com> wrote: > Can I display my servers page swap rates in Xymon? > Yes, it's open source so anything is possible. ;-) As something like the sar command ; sar -W -f > I think some OSes have support for this already. Or maybe I've hacked so many xymon installs, I longer remember what comes out of the box. What OS are you running? The standard way of graphing custom data is to follow the instructions in the doco for custom graphs: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/howtograph.html This is typically done client-side. You can also extend the client side to simply supplement the client data (eg to add a [paging] section), and then write a server-side script to parse and process on behalf of the client, feeding into xymond locally. If you develop a script to do this, consider putting it up on xymonton so others can benefit. J

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No Client data
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, 04:57 Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not seeing any clientdata. > > I am running xymon-client-4.3.10-1.x86_64 on CentOS 6.8 > > Hostname is right and nothing in Ghost clients > > Log shows > This is the clientlaunch.log on the client, I assume? 2016-10-27 17:46:26 xymonlaunch starting > 2016-10-27 17:46:26 Loading tasklist configuration from > /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg > 2016-10-27 17:46:32 Task client terminated, status 1 > 2016-10-27 17:51:33 Task client terminated, status 1 > This shows that the client process failed about 5 seconds after it was started. So maybe a connectivity problem? Check your XYMSRV or XYMONSERVER setting, and also check that the client can connect to it on port 1984. Maybe manually send a client message: $ xymoncmd $ $XYMON XYMSRV "client dummy test" $ echo $? $ exit And see what you get. J > -- > 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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Xymon client data forwarding to another Xymon server?
by maik＠vegasystems.com 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

We have some clients behind a firewall what are sending their Xymon logs to a Xymon server at the same subnet. The Xymon server is the only one machine what is able to send the client data somewwere else, so we would like to get this server sending the local client data to another Xymon server, too. Not all client data should be send, we would like to be able (if possible) to select the clients being send to the other server. I was reading about xymonproxy, but it sounds, it only can send all client data to another server?! Also, there are almost no manuals or detailed information how to get xymonproxy setup. It would be great to get some help to understand how to get it working. Thank you in advance Maik Heinelt -- .................................................................. Heinelt Maik | Software Developer ハイネルト　マイク愛知県一宮市富士２－２－２２株式会社ベガシステムズ TEL: 0586-71-3903 FAX: 0586-71-4071 http://www.vegasystems.com Skype ID: daliose .................................................................. DISCLAIMER: This information is confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please disregard and destroy this email and its content. Thank you

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