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Capture and send data To Elasticsearch and Kibana
by francois.outteryck＠soprasteria.com 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi Peter, Examples of task.cfg configuration with status and stachg events : [capture_status] ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEED xymond CMD xymond_channel --channel=status /home/xymon/server/ext/capture.sh --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond_task_capture.log LOGFILE /var/log/xymon/lunch_capture.log [capture_stachg] ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEED xymond CMD xymond_channel --channel=stachg /home/xymon/server/ext/capture.sh --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond_task_capture_stachg.log LOGFILE /var/log/xymon/lunch_capture_stachg.log Capture.sh script simple made to call a php script : #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/php /var/www/kibana/capture.php $@ </dev/stdin >>/var/log/xymon/xymond_capture_php.log 2>&1 And capture.php make all job : <?php date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris'); $TODO=FALSE; $ARRAY_COLLECTOR=array(); $COLLECTOR=null; while (FALSE !== ($line = fgets(STDIN))) if ($line!='') { $tab=reduce_array($line); if (sizeof($tab)==0) continue; if ($line=="@@\n") { if ($TODO) { $metadata['Message']=implode('',$ARRAY_COLLECTOR); SendData($id,$metadata,$COLLECTOR); $TODO=FALSE; $COLLECTOR=null; } } else if (substr($tab[0],0,8)=='@@stachg') { if ($TODO) { $metadata['Message']=implode('',$ARRAY_COLLECTOR); SendData($id,$metadata,$COLLECTOR); $TODO=FALSE; $COLLECTOR=null; } /* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 /* @@stachg#seq|timestamp|sender|origin|hostname|testname|expiretime|color|prevcolor|changetime|disabletime|disablemsg|downtimeactive|clienttstamp|modifiers */ $COLLECTOR='stachg'; $metadata=explode('|',$tab[0]); $sender=$metadata[2]; $hostname=$metadata[3]; $metadata=array( 'Collector'=>$COLLECTOR, 'Sender'=>$metadata[2], 'ServerName'=>$metadata[4], 'Type'=>$metadata[5], 'Status'=>$metadata[7], 'PrevStatus'=>$metadata[8], 'LogTime'=>$metadata[1], 'ValidTime'=>$metadata[6], 'LastChange'=>$metadata[9], 'DisableTime'=>$metadata[10], 'DisableMSg'=>$metadata[11], 'Message'=>'' ); $id=$metadata['ServerName'].'_'.$metadata['Type'].'_'.$meta['LastChange']; $ARRAY_COLLECTOR=null; $ARRAY_COLLECTOR=array(); $TODO=TRUE; } else if (substr($tab[0],0,8)=='@@status') { if ($TODO) { $metadata['Message']=implode('',$ARRAY_COLLECTOR); SendData($id,$metadata,$COLLECTOR); $TODO=FALSE; $COLLECTOR=null; } /* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 /* @@status|timestamp|sender|origin|hostname|testname|expiretime|color|testflags|prevcolor|changetime|ackexpiretime|ackmessage|disableexpiretime|disablemessage|clientmsgtstamp|flapping */ $COLLECTOR='status'; $metadata=explode('|',$tab[0]); $sender=$metadata[2]; $hostname=$metadata[3]; $metadata=array( 'Collector'=>$COLLECTOR, 'Sender'=>$metadata[2], 'ServerName'=>$metadata[4], 'Type'=>$metadata[5], 'Status'=>$metadata[7], 'LogTime'=>$metadata[1], 'ValidTime'=>$metadata[6], 'LastChange'=>$metadata[10], 'DisableTime'=>$metadata[13], 'AckTime'=>$metadata[11], 'DisableMSg'=>$metadata[14], 'Message'=>'' ); $id=$metadata['ServerName'].'.'.$metadata['Type']; $ARRAY_COLLECTOR=null; $ARRAY_COLLECTOR=array(); $TODO=TRUE; } else { if (substr($tab[0],0,2)=='@@') { if ($TODO) { $metadata['Message']=implode('',$ARRAY_COLLECTOR); SendData($id,$metadata,$COLLECTOR); $TODO=FALSE; $COLLECTOR=null; } } if ($TODO) $ARRAY_COLLECTOR[]=$line; } } function CallAPI($method, $url, $data = false) { $curl = curl_init(); switch ($method) { case "POST": curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); if ($data) curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); break; case "PUT": curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1); break; default: if ($data) $url = sprintf("%s?%s", $url, http_build_query($data)); } curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec($curl); curl_close($curl); return $result; } function reduce_array($line) { $tab=explode(' ',$line); $nr=array(); for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($tab);$i++) if (trim($tab[$i])!='') $nr[]=trim($tab[$i]); return $nr; } function SendData($id,$cc,$COLLECTOR=null) { if ($COLLECTOR==null) return; $d=new DateTime(); if ($cc['LastChange']!='') {$d->setTimestamp($cc['LastChange']);$cc['LastChange']=$d->format('c');} else {$cc['LastChange']='NaN';} if ($cc['LogTime']!='') {$d->setTimestamp($cc['LogTime']);$cc['LogTime']=$d->format('c');} else {$cc['LogTime']='NaN';} if ($cc['ValidTime']!='') {$d->setTimestamp($cc['ValidTime']);$cc['ValidTime']=$d->format('c');} else {$cc['ValidTime']='NaN';} if (isset($cc['AckTime'])) { if ($cc['AckTime']!='') {$d->setTimestamp($cc['AckTime']);$cc['AckTime']=$d->format('c');} else {$cc['AckTime']='NaN';} } if ($cc['DisableTime']!='') {$d->setTimestamp($cc['DisableTime']);$cc['DisableTime']=$d->format('c'); } else {$cc['DisableTime']='NaN';} $data = json_encode($cc); $data=str_replace('"NaN"','null',$data); echo $id.'=>'.$data."\n"; $url="http://127.0.0.1:9200/xymon/".$COLLECTOR."/".$id; $res=CallAPI("POST",$url,$data); } ?> De : Peter Welter [mailto:peter.welter at gmail.com] Envoyé : vendredi 23 décembre 2016 14:45 À : OUTTERYCK Francois Cc : xymon at xymon.com Objet : Re: [Xymon] Capture and send data To Elasticsearch and Kibana Hi Francois, Looks good, your sample. I am very interested in your integration efforts. How do you select what is going to be inserted in the ELK stack? All status messages that Xymon receives? And could you provide an example of the xymond_channel block in you task.cfg and the capture.sh? Tasks.cfg probably is something like: [es] ... CMD xymond_channel --channel=status /home/xymon/server/ext/capture.sh ... And the capture.sh contains some curl script to the ELK stack? Regards, Peter 2016-12-14 18:15 GMT+01:00 OUTTERYCK Francois <francois.outteryck at soprasteria.com<mailto:francois.outteryck at soprasteria.com>>: Hello, I just do a small work with Xymon in order to send status data to Elasticsearch. And with Kibana reporting is easy. How it work ? Simple : With capture of status message (xymond_channel --channel=status /home/xymon/server/ext/capture.sh ) script encode status message in json and send as document in elasticSearch. Example of Mapping document status in elasticsearch : "status"=> array( "properties"=>array( "ServerName"=> array("type"=> "string"), "Type"=> array("type"=> "string"), "Status"=> array("type"=> "string"), "LastChange"=> array("type"=> "date","format"=> "strict_date_optional_time"), "LogTime"=> array("type"=> "date","format"=> "strict_date_optional_time"), "ValidTime"=> array("type"=> "date","format"=> "strict_date_optional_time"), "AckTime"=> array("type"=> "date","format"=> "strict_date_optional_time"), "DisableTime"=> array("type"=> "date","format"=> "strict_date_optional_time"), "Sender"=> array("type"=> "string"), "DisableMSg"=> array("type"=> "string"), "Message"=> array("type"=> "string") ) ) All is done with a 130 lines script. So simple to integrate in existing environment and so powerfull usage of Xymon/elasticsearch/Kibana For those who don’t know kibana : https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana [cid:image001.png at 01D25EA3.F74489F0] _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Need help with upgrade from 4.3.17 to 4.3.20
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hmm. So far, the only way I've been able to reproduce this is by replacing the ScriptAlias directives with mere Alias's in the xymon.conf apache config. Has there been any change in the path you've used for the CGI directory since the previous version, or is there any chance that another Alias line is taking precedence over the ScriptAlias? Do you see anything in the apache access/error logs that indicates an error? -jc On Tue, May 19, 2015 10:37 am, Cortes, Manny wrote: > Having the same problem after installing 4.3.20 on both Ubuntu server > 14.04 and 15.04. > > Thanks, > > > Manuel A Cortes > > Systems Programmer III > > [IBM_Cert] > > IBM Certified System Administrator AIX 7 > > Information Services > > 321-841-6534 > > Orlandohealth.com > > Facebook.com/orlandohealth > > Youtube.com/orlandohealth > > @orlandohealth on twitter > > > > 1414 Kuhl Avenue.,MP136 > > Orlando, Florida 32806 > > From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Asif Iqbal > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 12:59 PM > To: J.C. Cleaver > Cc: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Need help with upgrade from 4.3.17 to 4.3.20 > > > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:40 PM, J.C. Cleaver > <cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org>> wrote: > Hmm. It seems like it's trying to pass along the binary rather than > actually execute it. Can you > > a) validate the permissions on the various .sh files inside the > /xymon-cgi/ directory. (Wondering if there's a case where make install > doesn't set permissions properly), and > > > /var/lib/xymon/cgi-bin$ ls -al > total 6560 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 19 10:19 . > drwxr-xr-x 16 xymon xymon 4096 May 19 10:19 .. > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 acknowledgements.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 appfeed-critical.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 appfeed.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 certreport.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 columndoc.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 confreport-critical.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 confreport.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 criticalview.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 csvinfo.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 datepage.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 eventlog.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 findhost.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 ghostlist.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 historylog.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 history.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 hostgraphs.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 hostlist.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 nongreen.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 notifications.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 perfdata.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 reportlog.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 report.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 showgraph.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 snapshot.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 svcstatus.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 32 xymon xymon 255968 May 19 10:19 topchanges.sh > > > b) verify that the ScriptAlias or ExecCGI options are still present in > apache.conf. > > > grep xymon-cgi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/xymon-apache.conf > # "/xymon" and "/xymon-cgi" URLs. > ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/var/lib/xymon/cgi-bin/" > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-hist.sh /xymon-cgi/history.sh [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-eventlog.sh /xymon-cgi/eventlog.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-rep.sh /xymon-cgi/report.sh [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-replog.sh /xymon-cgi/reportlog.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-snapshot.sh /xymon-cgi/snapshot.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-findhost.sh /xymon-cgi/findhost.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-csvinfo.sh /xymon-cgi/csvinfo.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh /xymon-cgi/columndoc.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-datepage.sh /xymon-cgi/datepage.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh /xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/bb-histlog.sh /xymon-cgi/historylog.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-confreport.sh /xymon-cgi/confreport.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-confreport-critical.sh > /xymon-cgi/confreport-critical.sh [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-nkview.sh /xymon-cgi/criticalview.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-certreport.sh /xymon-cgi/certreport.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-nongreen.sh /xymon-cgi/nongreen.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-hostgraphs.sh /xymon-cgi/hostgraphs.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh /xymon-cgi/ghostlist.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-notifylog.sh /xymon-cgi/notifications.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-hostlist.sh /xymon-cgi/hostlist.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-perfdata.sh /xymon-cgi/perfdata.sh > [R=permanent,L] > RewriteRule ^/xymon-cgi/hobbit-topchanges.sh /xymon-cgi/topchanges.sh > [R=permanent,L] > > > HTH, > > -jc > > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 7:56 am, Asif Iqbal wrote: >> I am not sure what I need to after the upgrade for the columns to show >> data >> instead of >> something like this >> >> >> ELF ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½>ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> @ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Ã >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½8ï¿½ ï¿½@ï¿½%ï¿½"ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Ã¸ >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Ã¸ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½8 ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½8 >> @ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½8 @ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½@ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Ã¤Ã¤ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Ã¤Ã¤ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ >> >> I removed FollowSymLinks from xymon-apache.conf file under /xymon-cgi/ >> and /xymon-seccgi/ and restarted. >> >> I am using ubuntu >> >> -- >> Asif Iqbal >> PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu<http://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? >> _______________________________________________ >> Xymon mailing list >> Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >> > > > > > -- > Asif Iqbal > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu<http://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? > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are > intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. 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Recovery notifications not generated when test goes red->yellow->green?
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

It appears that if a test goes from the red state, to the yellow state, and then to the green state, no recovery notification is sent. If it goes directly from red to green, then we get a notification. Initial notifications are only sent on RED and PURPLE. We have recovery notifications configured for most tests. Xymon server is 4.3.21, built using makerpm.sh and installed with yum on CentOS 6. I do not know whether our previous version (4.3.14) behaved similarly. It was almost an accident that I discovered the problem at all. Is this expected behavior? If it is, can I change it? Thanks, Shawn

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CLASS not working as expected
by steve＠opendium.com 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Under Xymon 4.3.25, I'm trying to use the class attribute to group hosts together by what monitoring and alerting they need. So for each host I have a hosts.cfg line like: 192.0.2.1 somehost.example.com # CLASS:Foo trace ssh Then in analysis.cfg I have: CLASS=Foo PROC this PROC that And alerts.cfg has: CLASS=Foo SCRIPT=blah However, the tests in analysis.cfg are not being applied. If I replace CLASS=Foo with HOST=somehost.example.com they work as expected. Also, CLASS=linux seems to work, which implies that the CLASS: directive in the hosts.cfg is being ignored. As far as I can tell, the messages on xymon's "client" channel don't contain the class name that was specified in hosts.cfg, so xymond_client is using the class that the client sent instead. Other channels, such as "status" do include the class name that was specified in hosts.cfg. Am I misunderstanding how the class is supposed to be used, or is this a bug? -- - Steve Hill Technical Director Opendium Limited http://www.opendium.com Direct contacts: Instant messager: xmpp:steve at opendium.com Email: steve at opendium.com Phone: sip:steve at opendium.com Sales / enquiries contacts: Email: sales at opendium.com Phone: +44-1792-824568 / sip:sales at opendium.com Support contacts: Email: support at opendium.com Phone: +44-1792-825748 / sip:support at opendium.com

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DNS failures causing "runtime longer than time limit"
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi I'm running Xymon v4.3.10 on Linux, and I'm quite sure it's compiled with c-ares support. I have 12 new DNS servers that were added to Xymon about one month ago. All of my server entries in hosts.cfg have "testip". The tasks.cfg runs xymonet with "--dns-timeout=3". The hosts entries look like so: 10.10.10.1 dnshost1.example.com # testip dns=NS:example.com,SOA: example.com About a week ago, connectivity to all of these servers failed, and at the same time, the xymonnet run time jumped from less than 15 seconds to about 330 seconds, so about 315 seconds extra. The xymonnet page says 295 seconds is taken up by DNS tests. If the increase in time taken is about 315 and is entirely due to the 12 servers failing, then each failed server is adding about 26 seconds to the total run time. I don't think this should be happening like this. With two DNS checks per server, the DNS checks should be taking 6 seconds each to time-out, not 26. If I run xymonnet with "--timing --no-update" and specify only one hostname, I can view the results and the timing. This shows that the ping check gets reported after about 3 seconds, and then the DNS tests are executed and take 26 seconds total. My naiive assumption was that when a server failed a ping (and didn't have "noclear" defined in hosts.cfg) then the network checks would be skipped. On re-reading the man page for hosts.cfg, it dawned on me that a failed ping simply suppresses failed test /results/, but doesn't stop the tests from being run. So the real problem is that the "--dns-timeout=3" is not being taken into consideration by xymonnet. If I run xymonnet with "--debug" it tells me: 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 ares_search: tlookup='example.com', class=1, type=2 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 ares_search: tlookup='example.com', class=1, type=6 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 Processing 0 DNS lookups with ARES 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:46 Finished ARES queue after loop 423 This is peculiar. Why would it say "processing 0 DNS lookups" when there are two lookups to test? Could this be because xymonnet hasn't actually been built with ARES support and I didn't know it? Is there a good way to tell? If I add "--no-ares" I get the same results perhaps suggesting a lack of ARES support. On the other hand, if I add "timeout:3" and "attempts:1" into resolv.conf, I also get the same results. If I run "nm /path/to/xymonnet | grep gethostby" it returns "ares_gethostbyname". Just for fun, I compiled Xymon v4.3.21 and ran the xymonnet binary from there, with no change in behaviour. I also tried removing the "--dns-timeout" option so that it defaults to 30 seconds, but still no change - 26 seconds for two DNS tests. So, I'm not really sure what the problem is, but xymonnet certainly isn't behaving as I would expect. Cheers Jeremy

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multiple interfaces
by ve2cii＠canasoft.net 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hi, I have a question. Is there a way to setup xymon to have multiple status pages? What I want to do is to have let us say hosts 1-5 showing on one page with users 2-10 having access and hosts 6-12 on another page with users 14-20 having access. -- sysadm cronomagic.com/gemstelecom.com e-mail ve2cii at canasoft.net POWERED BY LINUX

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(possible) bug apt check - debian
by roby21＠gmail.com 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hello, apt check reports this (Yellow) message: - apt NOT ok Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie) Packages not installed from apt repositories (3): owncloud (9.1.4-2.1) owncloud-deps-php5 (9.1.4-2.1) owncloud-files (9.1.4-1.1) Last apt update: 0.0 day(s) ago (Using official owncloud repository) Here some information about software / config: # Repository: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Debian_8.0/ / # Debian / kernel Version: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux # Packages Version # from dpkg -l: xymon-client 4.3.17-6+deb8u1 amd64 hobbit-plugins 20141201 all It should be green! Can you help me ? Thanks

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Annyoing logic in alerts.cfg
by even.juberg＠ntnu.no 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hi! I've been using Xymon for years and have recently begun to play around with the alerts.cfg, however, there is something I have been banging my head against the wall with, for weeks now. So I am reaching out to this list in the hopes that someone out there might have the key to save me from eternal frustration. *snippet from my alerts.cfg* HOST=* RECOVERED=1 IGNORE HOST=* HOST=one-host SERVICE=http MAIL someuser at domain.local COLOR=red MAIL someuser at domain.local DURATION>5 COLOR=red What I'm trying to accomplish is to stop the "I'm OK - recovered" messages. Those messages are irrelevant, so I want those filtered out. The problem though, is that the logic is completely off on this point. The first rule for some reason takes presedense, even though I have explicitly told it to only use that rule IF the host has recovered, no? I want it to skip that rule, if it has not yet recovered, send mail to the first user immediately, then to the other user after 5 minutes, but leave those users alone if the service is OK again. Is there a way to accomplish this? Sincerely, Even

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Could not load module xymond_rrd
by chaudharydeepak08＠gmail.com 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Hello Everyone, I am seeing this erro on trying to start xymon - Could not load program xymond_rrd: Could not load module /usr/local/lib/libpcre.a(libpcre.so.1). Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libgcc_s.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. The module has an invalid magic number. Could not load module xymond_rrd. Dependent module /usr/local/lib/libpcre.a(libpcre.so.1) could not be loaded. Could not load module . I am very new to xymon, any pointers psl? Regards, Deepak

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Help with jmxstat
by xymon＠asitshouldbe.com 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

I'm trying to set up jmxstat from xymonton.org to monitor information about JBoss 7.1 on 64-bit Oracle Linux 6.7 with Java 1.7.0_75. I have followed the instructions for both the client and server side. The jmxstat test appears on the Xymon server and is updating every 5 minutes as expected. I'm continuously getting the error: myclient.mydomain.com JMX - connection failed for JVM I don't know enough about Java or JBoss to know where to start looking. The instructions for jmxstat say this: "The JVM will need to be restarted with additional options that enable the JMX module and define the port & credentials." What additional options are needed and where are these configured? The admin port is 9999 and netstat shows that it's listening. I did use the add-user.sh script to create the username and password in the mgtm-users.properties file for JBoss. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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