April 2016 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Windows PowerShell client v2.15
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 03 May '16

03 May '16

Hi Zak, Just wanted to say the new externals functionality is awesome and makes everything easier, I have converted one of my PowerShell scripts to write the file in the expected format using the HASH and HASHVALUE and it all works as expected - very cool. I wanted to see if I could get a PowerShell script to run without specify HASH and HASHVALUE, the example in the documentation of external:everyscan:sync:fsmon.vbs doesn't seem to work for .ps1 scripts, I assume because you need to use the powershell.exe process to call the script. In the documentation it says this "If PROCESS is used, HASH, HASHVALUE and ARGUMENTS must be specified. " but I decided to try it anyway without specifying them and it seems to work fine, here is an example: external:everyscan:sync:test.ps1|powershell.exe|-file "{script}" So the documentation doesn't seem to be completely clear on how you run a PowerShell script without the HASH and HASHVALUE specified. Regards, Brandon.

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Best Linux client with Solaris Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0
by ggunselm＠emporia.edu 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

I have Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 running on Solaris 10 monitoring about 25 Solaris 10 servers and need to add some Oracle Linux 6u7 servers. I am using just the Main View and Notification (including emails). What is the latest (best) client for OL 6u7 with Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 on Solaris 10? Thanks, Glen Glen Gunselman System Administrator, Linux Enterprise Systems Emporia State University

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Query on CPU usage results in monitoring tool
by James.Embley＠brevanhoward.com 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hi, I am working on a project to evaluate the CPU usage on a number of machines in our network Using the CPU option I am trying to gage how the load is measured .... Is it %, Gb, Ghz? Any assistance would be much appreciated [cid:image001.png at 01D1A228.22641170] This email, the information therein and any attached materials (collectively the "Email") are intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or privileged material. If you have received this Email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. This Email remains the property of Brevan Howard, which reserves the right to require its return (together with any copies or extracts thereof) at any time upon request. Any unauthorised review, retransmission, dissemination, forwarding, printing, copying or other use of this Email is prohibited. Brevan Howard may be legally required to review and retain outgoing and incoming email and produce it to regulatory authorities and others with legal rights to the information. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, changed corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. Brevan Howard accepts no liability for any errors or omissions in this Email which arise as a result of internet transmission. This Email is not an official confirmation of any transaction. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect the views of Brevan Howard. This Email is not an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any security or investment. It does not constitute or contain any investment advice and is being made without regard to the recipients investment objectives, financial situation or means. Past Performance is not an indicator of future results and Brevan Howard provides no assurance that future results will be consistent with any information provided herein or attached hereto. Brevan Howard and the sender make no warranties regarding the accuracy or completeness of the information in this Email and it should not be relied upon and is subject to change without notice. Brevan Howard and its representatives, officers and employees accept no responsibility for any losses suffered as a result of reliance on the information in this Email or the reliability, accuracy, or completeness thereof. In this Email, "Brevan Howard" means Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP ("BHAM"), Brevan Howard Inc., Brevan Howard (Israel) Ltd and their respective affiliates. BHAM is a limited liability partnership authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom and registered in England & Wales (reg. no. OC302636).

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xymon-rclient.sh clientless script
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Hello On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:36 AM usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > In this script, it says: > > # In the config file, we are expecting things like these: > # > # log:/path/to/file:maxsize > # ignore MARK > # trigger stuff > # linecount:/path/to/file > # label1:regex1 > # label2:regex2 > It also says, a few lines further on: # Note: Due to the complexity in keeping state, # only "file:" and "dir:" are implemented at this # stage. Neither can backticks be used yet (the # result is unknown). The "file:" setting cannot # use the optional hash field yet. Linecount does # not require state, but simply hasn't yet been # implemented. > I'm trying to set the thresholds for green, yellow, and red and I don't > know how using a client-less script. Which config file and where? > Are you trying to use "log:" or "linecount:"? For what attributes are you trying to set thresholds? Perhaps you could share your configuration? To be honest, xymon-rclient is primarily to collect the basic instrumentation available for CPU, memory, disk usage and the like, that would otherwise be collected by the Xymon client installed on the box, if it were possible to do so. Other features, like those that are configured in client-local.cfg, are less likely to be fully support. Cheers Jeremy

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Cacti and Xymon Integration
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Hi All, Does anyone have a way to integrate the data from Cacti to Xymon for alerting? At the moment I am using a few different products for SNMP monitoring and want to just use Cacti, I know of the bbmrtg script and Devmon but they don't meet my needs. I found some references to a 2005 script called bigcactus: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6309 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/application-management/big-brother/… http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2005/02/msg00126.html Not being a Linux admin or knowing Perl makes it hard to get my head around it and it looks like it's only works with a few Novell related cacti graphs. I'm wondering if anyone is using this script or has something similar they use? Regards, Brandon

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Network Traffic Threat Analyzer?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

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Looking for Release Advice
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi all, I am a long time user of the wonderful Xymon product. I currently administer two servers running Xymon 4.3.7, monitoring about 1500 items combined across 4 continents. Needless to say I have not done an upgrade in quite some time. I am just starting a project to install a third Xymon server on our network to off load the monitoring of our European operations across 8 countries. I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server. In addition, I am looking to upgrade my existing 4.3.7 servers to the release selected. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | BeWhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com<http://www.fellowes.com> [cid:image6a7497.JPG at 0d5b0f62.47be4495] Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.

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xymon-rclient.sh clientless script
by usaims＠yahoo.com 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi, In this script, it says: # In the config file, we are expecting things like these: # # log:/path/to/file:maxsize # ignore MARK # trigger stuff # linecount:/path/to/file # label1:regex1 # label2:regex2 I'm trying to set the thresholds for green, yellow, and red and I don't know how using a client-less script. Which config file and where? usaims

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patching & bulding xymon
by apocalysque＠yahoo.com 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

I know this isn't strictly related to xymon, but I'm trying to patch xymon and recompile so I can test the patch but I can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone here have any good recommendations on where I can read up on patching and compiling or building and testing? I'm really only a novice in programming, but I think know enough to be able to contribute. I've created a patch for csvreport.c which I believe should cause the availability report to output times in a human readable format instead of unix epoch time. When I tried following instructions from some random websites I found on working with SRPMS, I added the patch into the spec file in 2 spots but when I tried to rebuild the binary RPM, it asks me which file I want to patch. I put my patch file in the sources directory where the rest of the patches seemed to be and added this to the spec file: %patch1000 -p0 and. Patch1000: xymon.xymongen_csvreport.patch So I decided it might be easier to try editing the file found in my /home/rpmbuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xymon-4.3.27/xymongen directory and just rebuild from that but when I rebuilt it, I get the same unix epoch time on the generated CSV report. I would assume that at the very least I would get some sort of error message on my first try. TIA -Jason

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Powershell ext script working with alarm colors
by Foster.Patch＠accuweather.com 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi, I have wrapped a C# script into powershell that monitors ASP.NET information (Current Connections, Requests Executing, Request Wait Time, Requests In Queue, and Request Execution Time). Currently the only modifier to alarm color is how long it takes for the script to respond. I want to make it so, for example, if current connections reaches a certain point, it turns yellow/red. Lines 108-115 highlight what I am referring to. Is there any way to accomplish this? Thanks $MAX_RUN_TIME = 300 $TIME_Exceeded = $false $TEST_FILE = "C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\tmp\aspfoster" $STATUS = "green" $STATUSCODE = "Good to go" $Source = @" using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Diagnostics; namespace ASPNETPerformance { public static class Query { public static IntPtr userHandle = new IntPtr(0); public static string hostName = "."; public static string categoryName = "ASP.NET Applications"; public static string instanceName = "__Total__"; public static float CurrentConnections() { string counterName = "Current Connections"; PerformanceCounter counter = new PerformanceCounter("Web Service", counterName, "_Total", hostName); return counter.NextValue(); } public static float RequestsExecuting() { string counterName = "Requests Executing"; PerformanceCounter counter = new PerformanceCounter(categoryName, counterName, instanceName, hostName); return counter.NextValue(); } public static float RequestWaitTime() { string counterName = "Request Wait Time"; PerformanceCounter counter = new PerformanceCounter(categoryName, counterName, instanceName, hostName); return counter.NextValue(); } public static float RequestsInApplicationQueue() { string counterName = "Requests In Application Queue"; PerformanceCounter counter = new PerformanceCounter(categoryName, counterName, instanceName, hostName); return counter.NextValue(); } public static float RequestExecutionTime() { string counterName = "Request Execution Time"; PerformanceCounter counter = new PerformanceCounter(categoryName, counterName, instanceName, hostName); return counter.NextValue(); } } } "@ try{ Add-Type -TypeDefinition $Source -Language CSharp } catch { } $CurrentConnections = [ASPNETPerformance.Query]::CurrentConnections() $RequestsExecuting = [ASPNETPerformance.Query]::RequestsExecuting() $RequestWaitTime = [ASPNETPerformance.Query]::RequestWaitTime() $RequestsInApplicationQueue = [ASPNETPerformance.Query]::RequestsInApplicationQueue() $RequestExecutionTime = [ASPNETPerformance.Query]::RequestExecutionTime() $yep = "$CurrentConnections $RequestsExecuting $RequestWaitTime $RequestsInApplicationQueue $RequestExecutionTime" $yep | out-file -filePath "C:\users\patchf\desktop\herrp.txt" if ($TIME_Exceeded) { $STATUS = "yellow" $STATUSCODE = "This is taking longer than usual" } if ($CurrentConnections > 15000) { #turn current connections yellow } if($CurrentConnections > 16000) { #turn current connections red } $end = Get-Date $STATUS = "$STATUS $end $STATUSCODE" $STATUS | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE $Herp = "ASP.NET Application Information `n" | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append $Derp = "Current Connections: " + $CurrentConnections | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append $Merp = "Requests Executing: " + $RequestsExecuting | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append $Cherp = "Request Wait Time: " + $RequestWaitTime | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append $Berp = "Requests In Queue: " + $RequestsInApplicationQueue | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append $Flerp = "Requests Execution Time: " + $RequestExecutionTime | out-file -Encoding ASCII $TEST_FILE -Append Foster Patch Web Server Technician

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