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linux client disk warning levels
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

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odd behavior for UP rule
by erik＠schminke.us 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

I sent this in a while ago.. I got no response, so I need to bump it. It also seems to not be just the UP rule; I've since seen the problem with the PROC test as well. I don't quite understand why, but when I write a rule for a specific page, the rule seems to get randomly applied to hosts on the "top page". I say randomly, because it doesn't seem to always occur. I'm still haven't figured out the best way to use the component binaries of the Xymon system to troubleshoot issues like this; to know whether a config I have is causing a parsing error somewhere in the config files. In this case, nothing is appearing in any of the logs in my logs directory. I'm kind of at a loss... any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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TS - Is there a DB frontend for Xymon maintenance?
by erik＠schminke.us 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

In our enviornment, we use SVN. We committed the servers/etcdirectory to an SVN repository. Admins check out the files, make their edits, then commit them back to the repository. They then go to the Xymon server to do an "svn update". It makes the process a bit more cumbersome, to be sure, but has done a great job of keeping us from clobbering each others edits. SVN makes merging changes much easier.

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script won't run in tasks.cfg but it will on the command line
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

The documentation for selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py says: "Controls a browser by sending commands to a remote server." When you run it from the command line using xymoncmd, it will have access to your display and any browser that you have running. When xymon runs the same script as a task, it doesn't own the display, so it gets "connection refused". Probably. Ralph Mitchell On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:53 AM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com> > To: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> > Cc: > Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:46:08 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: script won't run in tasks.cfg but it will on the command line > Hi, > > I have this Python Selenium script that works if I go into the > '/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/' and fire off 'xymoncmd' and execute the script > -- it reports to the Xymon Display and life is peachy. > > When I put the script in tasks.cfg, it runs at the desired internal of > every two minutes but it errors out. The script uses a combination of a > driver '/usr/local/bin/geckodriver' which I even gave 777 permissions on it > and changed ownership to 'xymon:xymon'. The script also uses an executable > script in '/usr/bin/firefox' which I gave '777' permissions on it. Any help > will be greatly appreciated. > > Here is the error message: > > Fri Jan 27 11:37:39 2017 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/wslcb_licensee.py", line 31, in <module> > driver = webdriver.Firefox() > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/ > webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 150, in __init__ > keep_alive=True) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/ > webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__ > self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/ > webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session > response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/ > webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute > self.error_handler.check_response(response) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/ > webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response > raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) > selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused > > >

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script won't run in tasks.cfg but it will on the command line
by usaims＠yahoo.com 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hi, I have this Python Selenium script that works if I go into the '/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/' and fire off 'xymoncmd' and execute the script -- it reports to the Xymon Display and life is peachy. When I put the script in tasks.cfg, it runs at the desired internal of every two minutes but it errors out. The script uses a combination of a driver '/usr/local/bin/geckodriver' which I even gave 777 permissions on it and changed ownership to 'xymon:xymon'. The script also uses an executable script in '/usr/bin/firefox' which I gave '777' permissions on it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Here is the error message: Fri Jan 27 11:37:39 2017Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/wslcb_licensee.py", line 31, in <module> driver = webdriver.Firefox() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 150, in __init__ keep_alive=True) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__ self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused

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AIX errpt monitor
by cpaulson248＠gmail.com 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Has anyone successfully added an AIX errpt monitor or column? Is the old bb-errpt.sh from BB portable? Thanks in advance for any info -Chris p.s. Also not sure how to disable REPEAT if you only want to run a script one time after an analysis and alert catch something

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history pages stuck in the past
by dito74＠gmail.com 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

some weird issue has been happening, our agents are reporting and you see the warnings and errors on the webpage, but when it goes back to green and you want to see those messages in the history page and now are past, they won't show up up, the history pages are stuck in the past (reporting no changes in statuses in months) and I think that's when we had some issues with syslog and the drive got full, for some reason now they won't get updated we are getting the messages in emails so I am guessing we don't care of the loss in the web display I think the history is lost, so I am thinking to delete everything at this point and start over however, I would like maybe to troubleshoot and look into it Gab

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xymonclient-linux.sh update persistent to software update
by vadud3＠gmail.com 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

How do I make change and add a new stanza for example [lscpu] to the xymonclient-linux.sh that it survives a yum update to next version of xymon client? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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cpu column vmstat graph
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

I'm trying to find the best way to add the vmstat graph to a column on my pages for my UNIX hosts. The easiest way, it seems is to add "GRAPHS_cpu=la,vmstat1" to the xymonserver.cfg to override the default. But since Windows clients don't report CPU in a vmstat format, this has the unfortunate side effect of putting broken images on pages for the Windows hosts I'm monitoring. I'm generally fine with that, but concerned that the Windows Administrators may groan. Perhaps I tell them "T.S." and leave it at that? Also haven't check, but I guessing I'm probably causing a number of logs to fill up with error messages. I've also experimented with putting an additional column on my UNIX pages (e.g. vmstat), by putting that test name after the "#" in the hosts.cfg file. The only way I've found to make a column of an arbitrary test name is to do one of the following: - Have the client extension send a message with a custom test name (Have to reconfigure all my clients) - Add a dummy network service to the "protocols.cfg" page (potentially producing a lot of unnecessary data) Am I missing something? Is there a better way to achieve this goal? Can this be a feature request? To allow arbitrary columns after the # in the hosts.cfg, and leave defining it to the person implementing Xymon in their environment? Thanks! Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com

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Windows Services Check with Powershell Client
by Alessandro.Tinivelli＠faacgroup.com 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Hi folks, i'm trying the stunning new Powershell client from Zak, and i'm already loving it. But I cannot figure out how to check if a service is running or not. I'm using last version 2.19 with Xymon 4.3.28-1terabithia. I've successfully set in analysis.cfg PORT and PROC checks, but what about "svcs"? I've also been able to use the directive "servicecheck" in client-local.cfg to instruct the powershellclient to restart stopped services but... I'm still missing the most important (for me) part for windows systems. Please help :) Thanks in advance, Alessandro

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