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Windows Service Checking
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 13 May '16

13 May '16

Hi Fair enough – it must be something to do with analysis.cfg then. The man page is a bit light on information in this area – have you tried \ (backslash-space) for the spaces? Maybe someone else could chip in with the correct configuration. Zak From: David Boyer [mailto:davieb at gmail.com] Sent: 12 May 2016 17:59 To: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Service Checking Zak, Using TaskMgr to view the Services, it 's listed as "NetBackup Client Service"... Since this is our intranet, I can't just cut/paste info. But using the Internet workstation I can use an example of how it looks. This is the display in TaskMgr: And listed in Component Services as: I also have teh CcmExec service and find it ok.. I wonder if it's related to Services with spaces in the name. As I've noticed there are very few of them. Thanks, Dave On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:25 AM, <zak.beck at accenture.com <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> > wrote: Hi David Is the name "Netbackup Client Server" listed on the svcs page in the name column? In Windows, services have a display name and a name. The display name is what is generally shown in Control Panel -> Services. The name is what is listed on the svcs page in the left-most column (display name in the right-most) and I believe it is the name you will need to match. Sometimes these can be quite different, for example, the service "SMS Agent Host" (displayname) has the name CcmExec. Cheers Zak From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> ] On Behalf Of David Boyer Sent: 12 May 2016 15:57 To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] Windows Service Checking I'm using Xymon 4.3.27 server and WinPSClient 2.15. I've put the following lines in the analysis.cfg file. SVC "Netbackup Client Service" SVC XymonPSClient Xymon correctly matches up the XymonPSClient on the SVCS page, but the "Netbackup Client Server". I've tried it with/without the quotes in the analysis.cfg file. What am I missing? Thanks, Dave

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Windows Service Checking
by davieb＠gmail.com 12 May '16

12 May '16

I'm using Xymon 4.3.27 server and WinPSClient 2.15. I've put the following lines in the analysis.cfg file. SVC "Netbackup Client Service" SVC XymonPSClient Xymon correctly matches up the XymonPSClient on the SVCS page, but the "Netbackup Client Server". I've tried it with/without the quotes in the analysis.cfg file. What am I missing? Thanks, Dave

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systemd
by ken.schweiker＠faa.gov 12 May '16

12 May '16

Previously posted the below but did not get a response. So is xymon systemd capable or not? If so where can I find the required files? Help is appreciated. Somehow I am missing the required files for systemd. I found nothing in etc/default or in etc/sysconfig. There was no .service file either. Lifted the .service file from Source Forge but that is not sufficient. I suppose there are other files but I can't seem to find them. Other than this issue my install went well and xymon is up and running. (great product!) My system is RH enterprise Linux 7.2. Xymon is 4.3.27 running on a zSeries. Thanks.

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Xymon Ticket
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 11 May '16

11 May '16

On Thu, 12 May 2016, 04:33 Sir Balash <sirbakash at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > > ServiceNow specializes in ITSM > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_management> applications and > provides forms-based workflow application development. ServiceNow has > integration options for platforms such as Salesforce > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce.com>, JIRA > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira_%28software%29>, SharePoint > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint>, and BMC Remedy Action Request > System <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Request_System>. > > Here is the ServiceNow URL: > http://www.servicenow.com/products/it-service-automation-applications/chang… > > Somehow, Xymon server is connected to ServiceNow. Therefore, whenever an > alert is generated by Xymon. The Xymon sends the alert email to ServiceNow > that generate an incident tickets and assigned it a group. > > Thanks, > Sir Balash > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:16 PM Sir Balash <sirbakash at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We had power outage and couple of our Linux servers went down, but there >>> were no ServiceNow tickest generated. >>> Please do you have any idea as to why the ticket was not generated? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sir Balash >>> >> >> Sir Balash >> >> What is ServiceNow? >> >> Cheers >> Jeremy >> > Oh, I see. So, as Stef said, check alerts.cfg and the alert.log file. As it's an email, you could check your xymon server's mail logs to see if the email was generated and delivered. Also check your ServiceNow server's mail logs to see if the message was received by mail. Cheers Jeremy

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Xymon Ticket
by sirbakash＠gmail.com 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hello, We had power outage and couple of our Linux servers went down, but there were no ServiceNow tickest generated. Please do you have any idea as to why the ticket was not generated? Thanks, Sir Balash

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xymon for AIX
by wonderfoo2＠gmail.com 11 May '16

11 May '16

Greetings! I just stood up an xymon server on Centos 7.2.1511 and I am in the process of gathering information to facilitate with the install/setup of AIX7 xymon clients. i can't seem to locate a central site centric to AIX client software download/installation/setup for xymon. Kindly point me to the right direction. Thanks in advance!

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email link in alerts
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 10 May '16

10 May '16

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:33 AM usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > How can I change the email URLS in the alert emails? > > I want to change > > See > http://narfy/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=IllinoisAPI&SERVICE=IllinoisApiTest > > to > > See > http://192.168.1.40/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=IllinoisAPI&SERVICE=Illinoi… > <http://narfy/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=IllinoisAPI&SERVICE=IllinoisApiTest> > The link is generated from the XYMONWEBHOST environment variable. You could change it in your xymonserver.cfg file, but that will mean all of your browser links will change also. This may not be desirable. An alternative might be to inject a stream editor between Xymon and your mail client. For instance, set MAIL like so: MAIL="sed 's/narfy/192.168.1.40/' | $MAILC -s" I haven't tested this, but many have used a similar technique for modifying their email alerts, for example, stripping newlines, as mentioned here: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-March/037159.html Cheers Jeremy

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email link in alerts
by usaims＠yahoo.com 10 May '16

10 May '16

How can I change the email URLS in the alert emails? I want to change See http://narfy/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=IllinoisAPI&SERVICE=IllinoisApiTest to See http://192.168.1.40/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=IllinoisAPI&SERVICE=Illinoi…

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Regional Servers to Central
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hey, I'm pretty sure this has been done (is possible). I'd like to change my setup to have regional Xymon servers that communicate to a central server. I know this is possible but...I can't open a connection back to the central server and have to use msgcache for my clients currently. Is it possible to set up the regional servers such that my central server manages the alerting and lets me see the remote servers using msgcache (or some other xymon server config that can use msgcache-like config)? I've attached a diagram for what I hope to do. If you can point me to a doc/web page, that would work to. thanks =G= Note: the dotted box is what I have today.

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Windows Powershell client v2.15
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 04 May '16

04 May '16

Hi I have today committed v2.15. This has a big, new feature that we've been working on internally for some time and testing in our environment, that is, external scripts and external data. As far as is possible, I have replicated the BBWin functionality for external data. Data files in the 'externaldatalocation' directory (installdir\tmp by default) with the correct file format will be uploaded to Xymon. You can therefore run external scripts, have them produce status data files in the correct format and that will be uploaded. The format is the same as BBWin and that described in 'Xymon Message Syntax' on this page: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html. The sample scripts supplied with BBWin, e.g. fsmon.vbs, should work without material changes (fsmon for example looks in the registry for a couple of locations of folders, this may need changing if you have never installed BBWin). You can now also specify external scripts in client-local.cfg to be run either every scan or every "slow" scan, and they can be sent to run synchronously or asynchronously - therefore a relatively simple external script scheduler. The scripts can either pre-exist on the target or they can be downloaded from a central web server or file share (like client updates). Script versioning is controlled via hashes - this has also been extended to client updates (optionally). Obviously the use of external scripts requires some care - for example, if you specify synchronous execution and your script never completes, XymonPSClient will be left waiting forever. If you specify asynchronous and your script never completes, you can end up with multiple processes building up over time. It's quite difficult to work out what may be happening with external scripts if you do not have any form of logging in your script, just as it would be with BBWin - therefore if you're having trouble, I recommend logging to file at various points in your script and the start and end of execution. Note that external scripts will be run as the same user as XymonPSClient, which would usually be the LOCAL SYSTEM user. You can test whether your script works as LOCAL SYSTEM interactively using psexec (e.g. psexec -i -s cmd.exe), from the sysinternals process utilities (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/psexec) I have updated the XymonPSClient.doc which has a section on external scripts and data - please read this carefully first as there are a number of options associated with these new features. I will try and answer any questions about scheduling and external data configuration, but I can't commit to answering questions about or debugging your individual scripts. Zak

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