June 2016 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Is SNMP a solution
by usaims＠yahoo.com 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

I have a xymon server located out in the Internet that uses custom scripts for monitoring. I monitor this one server which is NATed behind a firewall. I use 'xymon-rclient.sh' script to fetch the data. This server is only one that is exposed on the internet, it has an IP of 192.169.100.50. But I want to monitor it's sister server '192.168.100.51' which is not exposed on the Internet. Somebody said to me that SNMP might be a solution. If that is a solution, can somebody give me a high level explanation on how this might work? Thanks in advance.

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Monitoring logfiles with changing names on a linux client
by christian.becker＠rhein-zeitung.net 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hello out there, i did already search for this, but couldn't' find the right things; further my perl regexp knowledge is not the best. What I have: I have a linux client with xymon agents up and running, reporting his data to the Xymon server -> this is working fine. This linux client serves an application that creates 6 new different logfiles every day -> that's my problem. The names of the lofgiles are like this: Log.File_ABC#_YYYYMMDD_######.log The first # in the name could be numbers fom 1 to 6. YYYYMMDD is the actual day date, like 20160414. The ###### block is another numeric identifier, like 050601 or similar, which also changes every day, but not following any rule. What I want: My goal is to check those logiles for the keyword ERROR and let Xymon go red if this keyword occurs. What I'm looking for is the necessary config on both the client (in localclient.cfg) and the xymon server (in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg) using regexp. I'm thinking about something like this to have in the linux client's localclient.cfg: LOG `ls -1 Log.File_ABC*_`date +%Y%m%d\`_*.log` But I'm not sure about the syntax here. Further I need to know if and how this could be implemented in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg on the Xymon server. Anyone any idea? Regards Christian Christian Becker IT-Services Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net> _________________________________ Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH August-Horch-Straße 28 D-56070 Koblenz Verleger und Geschäftsführer: Walterpeter Twer Reg.-Gericht Koblenz HRB 121 Finanzamt Koblenz Str.Nr. 22 65 10 285 2 www.rhein-zeitung.de<http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/>

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[PATCH] logfetch bug? (line is dropped)
by t.fujiwara＠sekisui.com 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hi, I'm testing Xymon 4.3.27 to update from 4.3.18 for security issue, and find that one line in /var/log/message is dropped shown as"msgs". (Dropped line is seemed to be replaced with a string "<...CURRENT...>") --- how to reproduce this problem --- Write two messages from command prompt: $ logger test line 1 test line 2 ^D (EOF) /var/log/messages contains: Jun 14 13:33:10 myhost some previous messages... Jun 14 18:40:56 myhost root: test line 1 Jun 14 18:40:58 myhost root: test line 2 Xymon 4.3.27 shows following messages as "msgs": <...CURRENT...> Jun 14 18:40:58 smdtest root: test line 2 ----------------------------- I can set Xymon to ignore "<...CURRENT...>" using "analysis.cfg", but lost message line will not come back until another line is added to /var/log/messages. Attached patch for client/logfetch.c works fine for me. Please consider to apply it. Regards, Toshimitsu FUJIWARA ------------------------------------------------- NTT DATA SEKISUI SYSTEMS CORPORATION (NDiS) Toshimitsu FUJIWARA t.fujiwara at sekisui.com http://www.ndis.co.jp/ -------------------------------------------------

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changing FROM Address of email alerts
by dito74＠gmail.com 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

how do you change the from address for the email alerts? Gab

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xymonnet: TCPtest error 1 seen on open connection for ��.ssh
by mburger＠bubbanfriends.org 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Good afternoon. Recently, I've noted quite a few instances of Xymon going yellow for the xymonnet test, with the following output: Error output: TCPtest error 1 seen on open connection for ��.ssh -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

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Problems with Enable/Disable
by jtrott＠dancrai.com 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Hi all. I have finally migrated across to our new CentOS 7 with Xymon 4.3.27-1.el7.terabithia and now have problems using Enable/Disable from the web interface. When I disable a test, the page returns as per usual but nothing is disabled. If I run the: xymon xymonserver.fqdn 'disable hostname.test 16871392s Disabled by: reason' command from the shell then it works fine. I can load the /xymon-seccgi/enadis.sh URL without errors and it shows the currently disable tests/hosts. There are no errors or messages relating to enadis in the apache or xymon log files. Short of installing a debug build of xymon is there some way I can further debug this issue? Thanks, JT

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Adding a CSS style element to results?
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

Which of the many header files has the <head> section when clicking on a particular dot? For example, I want to use Google maps API (not just the URL, but the JavaScript stuff too) to display a map via a client "location" script, e.g. to track my laptop. The google maps API seems to require a CSS style in the <head> section (shouldn't conflict with anything else) - their example is below. So I need to be able to get that into there somehow. I don't think that would conflict with anything existing. Alternatively, if there's a separate stylesheet file that would be loaded, that would be great. Usually, my "location" column is clear (since it's not really a status in the usual sense), but it's not impossible that I might one day change that to be some other color, for instance if unable to obtain location, or if outside an expected area, or whatever. So whatever I do should work with any status color. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> #map { width: 500px; height: 400px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="map"></div> <script> function initMap() { var mapDiv = document.getElementById('map'); var map = new google.maps.Map(mapDiv, { center: {lat: 44.540, lng: -78.546}, zoom: 8 }); } </script> <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?callback=initMap" async defer></script> </body> </html>

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Issue with Diskstation client and persistent Purple condition
by jborissr＠gmail.com 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

I am having a an issue getting the Diskstation (syncology NAS) client reports to show on my xymon page. I had an issue on the DIskstation and had to do a scrub of the data. Since that date the client is not sending any reports to the xymon server. The connection test from the server to the Diskstation is working and I can ssh between the two units. The client is running on the Diskstation. I even upgraded the client to the latest version. I stopped the daemon and restarted it but still no reports. I have tried to remove the purple conditions just to get a base point but the reports from a month ago are still there. I restarted my xymon server and the apache server and still the purple exists. So are there any Diskstation users on the list that might be able to give me sme insight. Thanks in advance. -- John J. Boris, Sr.

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winpsclient: what about "clientbbwinmembug" setting?
by MARIO.DECHENNO＠unina2.it 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hi all, Hi Zak. I had to set in xymonclient_config.xml <clientbbwinmembug>0</clientbbwinmembug> to avoid bad detecting of swap memory in windows server 2008 and 2012 Is this (undocumented) parameter, and the relative snippet of code, still needed? And, if so, does make sense defaulting to 0 in the distributed config file? Best regards and thanks for your work. Mario De Chenno

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Windows disk I/O stats
by abs＠shadymint.com 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hi, I have been asked to provide disk I/O stats for a windows server, this currently has xymonclient.ps1 2.04 and the server OS is 2008 R2 SP1. I have provided similar in linux end-points using for instance diskstat.pl from Xymonton, but nothing similar seems to exist for Windows. I presume powershell could find this stuff but how expensive would it be to extract this? I dont want the agent to be affecting what we are supposed to be measuring. Has anyone else already been down this path or can they provide me an tips please? Thanks -- Andy

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