March 2016 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

How to change the refresh time for acknowledgements
by jborissr＠gmail.com 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

How can you change the response time when you acknowledge an issue so that it shows up as a check and you don't get pinged repeatedly. It looks like it takes about 5 minutes for the acknowledgement to take place. -- John J. Boris, Sr.

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The testip option does not seem to be honored by the http test
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

I have the following in my hosts.cfg file: 10.100.2.131 fourqueens.REDACTED.com # testip ssh mgmt=10.2.6.131[http,https,ssh] https://megaagency.REDACTED.com delayred=http:10 10.100.2.132 fitzgeralds.REDACTED.com # testip ssh mgmt=10.2.6.132[http,https,ssh] https://megaagency.REDACTED.com delayred=http:10 The "mgmt" option controls a custom server-side script we wrote that verifies reachability of the out-of-band server management (Dell DRAC in this case). I had expected the "testip" option to force the https URL test to be sent directly to the server, not the DNS address (which is a load balancer), but I can see the load balancer cookie in the response and requests in the load balancer's log. Is there any way to get the intended behavior? The server is running 4.3.23 with the patch to fix http response code interpretation. Thanks, Shawn

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jmxstat
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Hey, I don't think this is specific to jmxstat but I'm trying to implement. I'm getting the following in apache log when I hit the page: Setup error: Service GCInfo has a graph GCInfo, but no graph-definition,... However, the definition does exist and I can view the graphs if I select a different service and change the name in the URL. RRDs are being created. Anyone else run into this and overcome it? thanks =G=

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combotests and pages
by apocalysque＠yahoo.com 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

I'm getting ready to migrate from our instance of Hobbit to Xymon and I'm currently planning refining the page layouts and tests. What I'd like to do is have our top page report the results of combo tests on different classes of (redundant) systems in particular environments but have it so that when you click on one of the tests it takes you to a particular page instead of the details for that test. Is that possible? Web/http LDAP DB ============================== Production (green) (green) (green) Test (yellow) (green) (red) Development (green) (green) (green) For example, I have 4 web servers, 4 LDAP servers, and 2 DB servers in each of 3 environments, production, test, and development. So I would have 3 combo "hosts" with the columns corresponding to each type of server (web server, LDAP, DB servers) and each column is green if they're all up, yellow if any of them are down, and red if they're all down. I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to configure the combo testing appropriately to get the desired colors, but I cannot figure out how I would make it so the clicking on a "test" for a "host" would take me to a subpage instead. There's not much documentation in the combo.cfg or hosts.cfg man pages regarding how it works. Is this possible? Thank you, Jason T. Brockdorf Systems Analyst Identity and Access Management Texas Health and Human Services 512-438-2903

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Xymon-4.3.26: Jump To Page issue
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

?Hi, Since the changes in 4.3.26, the "Find Host" with "Jump to Page" checked does not work anymore in our environment. After entering "testhost" in "Pattern to look for" of https://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/findhost.sh , one is redirected to https://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/findhost.sh?host=testhost&jump=on&SUB=Search instead of https://xymonserver/xymon/other/#testhost,<https://xymonserver/xymon/other/#testhost> like with 4.3.24's findhost.c code. Regards, Dominique - UNIL

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Are there any NFS performance tests?
by paul.jochum＠nokia.com 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hi Xymon List: Does anyone know of a test script that I can add, that checks if an NFS mount is performing quickly enough? Basically, I have a few users complaining that every once in a while, an "ls" of their NFS mounted home file systems take a long time. I would like a xymon test that could check for that, in cases where a command (such as an ls of a file system) takes longer than "x" amount of time, display a warning or error. Thank you, Paul

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[PATCH] Support summary messages to HTTPS remotes
by dsg＠sensa.is 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hi all, I'm resending a patch I submitted here in May 2014, since it looks like it still didn't make it in. It's a small patch and should be easily reviewed. No changes have been made to the patch file since it still applies cleanly to 4.3.26. Without this patch, summary messages do not work if an HTTPS URL is specified. Since any competent system administrator will use HTTPS for the monitoring web server, summary messages are not very useful right now. Is there another method to send patches that has a higher success rate than the mailing list? Best regards, Davíð

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Xymon DISK free space
by tomas.wachtarczyk＠gmail.com 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Thank you !!! I saw U in analysis.cfg, but , as i said, i am not good in english and did not understand latter. # For the latter type of check, the "warnlevel" must be followed by the # letter "U", e.g. "1024U". On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Scot Kreienkamp < Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote: > It is possible. Here’s one of my configs to turn yellow on 10 gigs free, > red on 5 gigs free. > > > > PAGE=infrastructure/fileserv > > DISK C 90 95 > > DISK L 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK O 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK P 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK T 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK U 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK W 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK V 10485760U 5242880U > > DISK F 10485760U 5242880U > > > > > > > > *Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate* > One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | Office: 734-384-6403 | | > Mobile: 7349151444 | Email: Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com > > *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Tomáš > Wachtarczyk > *Sent:* Friday, March 04, 2016 10:04 AM > *To:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* [Xymon] Xymon DISK free space > > > > Hello, > > I am not good in english, so i am not sure how to find required feature. > > Is it possible to monitor free disk space in MB ? > > Example: > > We have database filesystems in Terabytes, but DB does not increase too > much. So Even it is 100% utilization, it may still have 10GB free space and > datafiles can be created without problem. > > We tweaked old BigBrother monitoring and disable percentage by setting > alerts to 101:101 (percent) and add 5000000:3000000 ( 5G:3G) > > So it could look like in xymon syntax > > DISK /db/filesystem 101 101 5000000 3000000 > > or > DISK /db/filesystem 5G 3G > > > > Is it possible in xymon ? > > Thank you > > W. > > 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. >

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Xymon DISK free space
by tomas.wachtarczyk＠gmail.com 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hello, I am not good in english, so i am not sure how to find required feature. Is it possible to monitor free disk space in MB ? Example: We have database filesystems in Terabytes, but DB does not increase too much. So Even it is 100% utilization, it may still have 10GB free space and datafiles can be created without problem. We tweaked old BigBrother monitoring and disable percentage by setting alerts to 101:101 (percent) and add 5000000:3000000 ( 5G:3G) So it could look like in xymon syntax DISK /db/filesystem 101 101 5000000 3000000 or DISK /db/filesystem 5G 3G Is it possible in xymon ? Thank you W.

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Criticaleditor.sh - issues after upgrading to 4.3.26.
by gudmundur.freyr.hafsteinsson＠advania.is 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Hi, I've looked through the mailing list after this issue and did not find the following issue in the mailing list. So I deployed 4.3.26 on a centos 6.7. migrated my config files over to the new version from prior version (4.3.17). Everything is working except the criticaleditor.sh link under administrator, which gives me the following errors in the logs (masked my ips): [error] [client Y.Y.Y.Y] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace., referer: http://X.X.X.X/xymon/xymon.html The features that are currently using the same xymonpasswd file do work properly: enadis.sh acknowledge.sh Has someone else expierenced this ? or might know what could be causing these issues for the criticaleditor.sh These are the permission for my critical.cfg: -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon apache critical.cfg And this is my current config for apache for sec-cgi: ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/usr/local/xymon/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/local/xymon/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order deny,allow Allow from all AuthUserFile /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymongroups AuthType Basic AuthName "Xymon Administration" Require valid-user </Directory> Best regards Gudmundur Freyr

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