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Multiple Host Instances
by joshuasocrates＠gmail.com 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hey all, Sorry for the slew of questions here, I'm trying to finish up a project and as an intern, I'm really trying to be able to finish before I have to go back to school. My current issue has to do with having multiple instances of a host. In my hosts.cfg file, it looks like this: page logs TEST1 group-only testing1|testing2|testing3|info|trends glog 10.0.0.1 site.address.domain # testing1 noping page logs TEST2 group-only testing1|testing2|testing3|info|trends dlog 10.0.0.1 site.address.domain # testing2 noping page logs TEST3 group-only testing1|testing2|testing3|info|trends zlog 10.0.0.1 site.address.domain # testing3 noping This set up does run all my custom tests properly, however, each setup for "site.address.domain" runs *all three custom scripts, *(testing1 testing 2 & testing3), causing the pages TEST1, TEST2, and TEST3 to *all turn red* if any one of the other scripts turns red. In relevance to this, when I click, for example, on my "TEST1" page, it will show that testing1, testing2, and testing3 are all running for site.address.domain. Due to the nature of my assignment, I need to separate these instances so that for the first declaration of site.address.domain only runs testing1, the second only runs testing2, and the third only runs testing3. I cannot alter the setup to have multiple host. Also, I will have ~24 tests that need to constantly be running, (8 per each host), and they are *slightly* different. I don't have the space to simply cram all 24 on one line. So does anyone have any solutions and/or suggestions as to how I could break up the host to have 3 completely separate instances on Xymon? I hope this was a specific enough explanation Thanks all! I really appreciate the community help I've been receiving while setting this up, its been a huge boost to my education. Cheers, Joshua.

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Script Message
by joshuasocrates＠gmail.com 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hey all, So I have my custom test set up in a column format, my message is posting correctly, and alerts are all set up! Working just fine. Now I'm trying to put in a red/green status for when you view the xymon webpage and click down to the message from a custom test. I'm looking to use the built in Xymon icons for my message screen, so I can indicate whether or not a log is good or bad from just a quick glance (green diamond and red devil icons). How can I add these to a message? It might be worth noting that for my current message, I append all my info to a log file. So end result for my variable looks like this: MSG="$(cat foo/bar/file) " So my question is, where can I find those icons to attach to my on screen message? I hope this was clear enough! If its not I will provide an alternate explanation. Cheers, Joshua

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Host Names
by joshuasocrates＠gmail.com 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hey all, So I believe this is a simpler problem, however, I'm struggling to fix it even after reading through the man pages. Lets take an example host from my hosts.cfg file, call it "myhost.site.secure". When I look at my Xymon webpage, I want to the header "testhost" instead of "myhost.site.secure" at the front of the system line. I can get the name to appear correctly, but when I do, all of my tests stop producing data. Here are the options I've tried: NAME:testhost myhost.site.secure CLIENT:testhost myhost.site.secure testhost:myhost.site.secure testhost myhost.site.secure All of them run into the same problem of data no longer showing up. Anyone have any idea why this is happening? Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under 3 different aliases, with all the network tests disabled, would that cause any issues within Xymon? Cheers all, Joshua

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xymon central mode - Windows Logfile
by m.pingel＠ndr.de 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hi, I want scan windows logfiles with xymon in central mode. In the logfilename are a timestamp, so I can't say the explicite name. Can anybody help me how I must configure client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg? Thanks. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Pingel

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How to centrally configure Xymon clients
by y.goudetsidis＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hello Which file I need to edit in the Xymon server so that I can manage clients centrally? For example I would like to change the disk usage thresholds. Many thanks Yanni

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Status not available for All CONNS after logrotate
by freesoftwareservers＠gmail.com 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=sub.domain.com&SERVICE=conn Status not available Our hobbit server was running low on space so I set up a script to move all *.gz files from /var/log/ to /data/backups and now all CONN are RED and when I click icon it just says Status Not Available. I tried moving all the logs back, little haphazard as the script moved recursively moved logs from /var/log to one directory but I just copied all logs, to every directory in /logs/ and Its still not working! It worked fine yesterday, and my bosses are not happy that it's not working, any help is much appreciated!

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Network Traffic (bps / Mbps)
by ohemming＠gmail.com 16 Jul '16

16 Jul '16

Hello All I'm running 4.3.21. For our Network Traffic graphs, the in/out readings are in bps and the total is in Mbps Here's the section from graphs.cfg (which has not been modified) [ifstat] FNPATTERN ^ifstat.(.+).rrd TITLE Network Traffic YAXIS Bits/second DEF:inbytes at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:bytesReceived:AVERAGE CDEF:in at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,8,* DEF:outbytes at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:bytesSent:AVERAGE CDEF:out at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,8,* CDEF:tot at RRDIDX@=in at RRDIDX@,out at RRDIDX@,+ LINE2:in at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ inbound GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %10.1lf (cur) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %10.1lf (max) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %10.1lf (min) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %10.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:out at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ outbound GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %10.1lf (cur) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %10.1lf (max) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %10.1lf (min) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %10.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:tot at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ I/O total GPRINT:tot at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:tot at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:tot at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:tot at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n How can I have the In/Out readings also show in Mbps? Thanks

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EXTIME assist
by losburn＠thepinnaclegroup.com 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Having some trouble with the EXTIME parameter. Does anyone know whether the EXTIME time is based on the timezone where the server is, or where the client is? Thanks! -Linh

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Where can I get the latest WinPSClient?
by me＠tdiehl.org 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hi, Can someone point me to the latest version of the WinPSClient? It used to be @ http://svn.code.sf.net/p/xymon/code/sandbox/WinPSClient but when I try to access it I get a forbidden message and my Google foo is failing me. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org

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Analysis.cfg Host name help
by ntgaston＠gmail.com 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

I am editing my Analysis.cfg file trying to group similar servers together. I am having unpredictable results and would appreciate some help. I am trying to get servers grouped with wild cards as such example: serverweb1prod serverweb3prod serverweb2prod #V for virtua serverwebV1prod serverwebV3prod serverwebV2prod To monitor port 80 on all (Physical and Virtual) webservers I have the following. HOST=serverweb*prod PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=HTTP Then in the following block I want to monitor VM tools is running on my VM webservers. HOST=serverwebV*prod l #Monitor for the service running PROC vmtoolsd.exe 1 #Monitor for the service running SVC VMTools startup=automatic status=started Problem is that my non-virtual web servers are RED because they are looking for the VMWare Tools services. What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help -N

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