July 2016 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Strange Ghost report
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Hi all I've got a ghost report coming up with the IP and "Candidate" of the Xymon server and a "Hostname" of a CNAME belonging to a another server. I've checked this other server and its Xymon client settings are correct and its correctly showing on the appropriate Xymon page. How can I get more detail of this ghost report, like the client data? Thanks CC

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Process needs restart monitor
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

On 22 June 2016 at 02:02, Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> wrote: > My Google-fu of the maillist archive is weak and I didn't see anything > relevant on Xymonton. > > I have a job pool that is restarted weekly via cron if no jobs are > running. I would like to be alerted if its process start time is more than > 2 weeks ago. > > Is there a native way to alert that a process hasn't has been running too > long? Sort of like the analysis.cfg "UP" check but for a process. > There's nothing out-of-the-box, but the [ps] section of the client data for many systems shows the "STARTED" column, and could be parsed for the start time of your process, such as in a server-side script that did like so: $XYMON $XYMSRV "clientlog $HN section=ps" Example output can be seen here: https://www.xymon.org/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=claudio.hswn.dk&section… Note that not all operating systems have the same "ps" output and so this technique might only work for some servers. Hmm, my new xymon-procmem utility uses this very technique to alert on memory hogs. It wouldn't take a lot to have it do the same for start time, although parsing different time/date formats could be challenging to do in an OS-agnostic way (that is, so that it can run on all/most POSIX Xymon servers). Cheers Jeremy

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BigBrother Client 460 not working with Xymon version 4.3.27
by zach.olinske＠gmail.com 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Hi, We have BigBrother server, but are looking to use Xymon. We have everything setup and ready to go, but our 100+ BigBrother servers our using the BigBrother Client 460. Did a External IP swap that would make Xymon take over BigBrothers IP. This worked ok, but none of the BigBrother Client servers came up on the other end. I am not sure if a security thing is setup, but when I use the BBWinCMD.exe command to send data to the Xymon it works like it should, but not from the BigBrother Clients that we have on the servers. I am not looking to save the BigBrother data, but the only thing I took over to Xymon was some of the BB-Hosts.cfg. I have used telnet on the server to verify port 1984 is open. That is OK. Sent fake message using the BBWinCMD. That is OK Restarted the Xymon Server. That is Ok BigBrother Clients 460 coming to Xymon. Is broken. Xymon configured with default options and it is version 4.3.27. Maybe someone has a fix for this? Kind regards, Zach

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