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Multiple graphs for one test
by norbert.kriegenburg＠de.ibm.com 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

What Galen described is the default way to go to add more graphs to a test page. This will add every graph at the end of the page sequentially. If you have more graphs to show i found it not so useful, it will create huge pages with a lot of scrolling necessary. But if you have your graph definitions already, and you can see your graphs by just calling the link directly (like http://X.X.X.X/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=HOST&service=YOURGRAPH&graph_wid… ) you can include these links into your mytest output directly. Either i include the image and link into the test page output where it fits into the content, or i create a table with images and links to show several graphs at once. F.e. a table with cpu and memory graphs together with some WebSphere values: <table> <tr valign="top"> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=loadall&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=loadall&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=la&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=la&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=memory&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=memory&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJVM_UsedHeap&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJVM_UsedHeap&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereSession_LIVE_COUNT&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereSession_LIVE_COUNT&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhcms_ConnsInUse&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhcms_ConnsInUse&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhconf_ConnsInUse&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhconf_ConnsInUse&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhrep_ConnsInUse&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbclhrep_ConnsInUse&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> <td> <A HREF=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbcrelusrDS_ConnsInUse&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&action=menu "><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=" /xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=hostname&service=websphereJDBC_jdbcrelusrDS_ConnsInUse&graph_width=350&graph_height=100&disp=hostname&nostale&color=green&graph=hourly " ALT="xymon graph"></A> </td> </tr> </table> Consider the use of width and height settings to tune the size of the graph table to fit into the output page. Sometimes i create static pages (with Xymon header and footer of course, 'xymonpage' will be your friend) with those tables, and link them directly (by title keyword) in hosts.cfg. Very handy if you want to have the same graphs in one view for a 4 node cluster (it will show the working/not working loadbalancing immediately...). If i have a test with more then several values with graphs i prefer just to add the link and not the image, to avoid oversized pages (sometimes i have several dozens of values at one page, all with rrd and graphs behind). HTH Norbert From: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> To: "xymon at asitshouldbe.com" <xymon at asitshouldbe.com>, "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> Date: 25/04/2017 00:09 Subject: Re: [Xymon] Multiple graphs for one test Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Add a line in xymonserver.cfg named GRAPHS_testname="graph1, graph2, ..." TL;DR I believe you just need to add a "GRAPHS" line that describes which graphs you want to show (you should already have them defined in your graphs.cfg file. I actually use the terabithia rpms which leverages the include files under the .d folders. This is not special for that build but saves me having to remember to set it up. For example, I have a test named ssdbbasic...I have a file graphs.d/ssdbbasic.cfg that contains my graph definitions and a file xymonserver.cfg.d/ssdbbasic with the following : GRAPHS_ssdbbasic="ssdbbasic,ssdbbasic1" TEST2RRD+=",ssdbbasic=ncv" SPLITNCV_ssdbbasic="*:GAUGE" You can even split out your rrd definitions if you need (to make them manageable) =G= ________________________________________ From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of xymon at asitshouldbe.com <xymon at asitshouldbe.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 5:32 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Multiple graphs for one test I have a custom test (mytest) that returns multiple pieces of information. The information is showing up on Xymon as expected. I'd like to be able to graph each piece of information separately, but on the same page. Is that possible? For a simplified example, mytest returns these two pieces of information: threads connections I'm using SPLITNCV to store the results in separate rrd files. That's working. I'm currently graphing the threads data. I want to graph the connections information on the same mytest page, but in a separate graph. In other words, I want to have multiple graphs using different rrd data files appear on the same Xymon test page. Is this possible? Does anyone have a quick sample from graphs.cfg and xymonserver.cfg that can point me in the right direction? Again, this is a simplified example. The actual test is returning 27 different pieces of information. Some of those are related to each other, some are related to other things. They're all related to the same application, which is why I'd like them to all appear on the same page. Each graph will likely have 2-4 different lines. Thanks. Ron _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Multiple graphs for one test
by xymon＠asitshouldbe.com 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

I have a custom test (mytest) that returns multiple pieces of information. The information is showing up on Xymon as expected. I'd like to be able to graph each piece of information separately, but on the same page. Is that possible? For a simplified example, mytest returns these two pieces of information: threads connections I'm using SPLITNCV to store the results in separate rrd files. That's working. I'm currently graphing the threads data. I want to graph the connections information on the same mytest page, but in a separate graph. In other words, I want to have multiple graphs using different rrd data files appear on the same Xymon test page. Is this possible? Does anyone have a quick sample from graphs.cfg and xymonserver.cfg that can point me in the right direction? Again, this is a simplified example. The actual test is returning 27 different pieces of information. Some of those are related to each other, some are related to other things. They're all related to the same application, which is why I'd like them to all appear on the same page. Each graph will likely have 2-4 different lines. Thanks. Ron

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disk test units
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hey, I've looked around and googled a bit but I can't tell what units the disk test uses when you set the warnlevel to 1024U...is that bytes, kilobytes (assuming yes), mb? Can you use a qualifier like 1024{KMGT}U? Anyone happen to know off-hand? thanks =G=

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Monitoring mailq
by zforray＠vcu.edu 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

I inherited Xymon from a now retired co-worker. Now I have a request to monitor the mailq on a new box and I seem to have missed that in the brain-dump/transfer from the retiree. So, how do you activate the mailq info on a Linux client/server? Where can I find the latest Xymon client for an RHEL6 system? -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zforray at vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html

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error:14082174:SSL routines:SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key too small
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

We patched our OS on our xymon proxy servers, and now we get the error in the xymonnet test Error output: Unspecified SSL error in SSL_connect to https (47873/tcp) on host NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN: error:14082174:SSL routines:SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key too small It looks like it's some sort of issue with an openssl patch. The machines in question are CentOS 6.9, and xymon is 4.3.21, that we packaged ourselves. I vaguely remember others having issues with SSL certs and xymon last year late. Does anybody have an explanation or solution? Thanks, Paul. This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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Add subpage to notification
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

Is there a way to get the subpage information into your emails that you notify with? So if you had a hosts.cfg entry like this: subpage GIris GIris Servers It would add GIris in the notification subject and body?

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Graphs for Oracle Monitoring
by dl1025＠att.com 20 Apr '17

20 Apr '17

I checked the rrd_status log and see nothing in regard to this issue. But, I noticed a bug being reported in regard to conn and http tests being graphed. 2017-04-17 06:22:28.210829 osprd578/tcp.conn.rrd: Bug - duplicate RRD data with same timestamp 1492428148, different data 2017-04-18 02:26:11.593443 emprateplan/tcp.http.https:,,emprateplan.edc.cingular.net<http://emprateplan.edc.cingular.net>,erp,.rrd: Bug - duplicate RRD data with same timestamp 1492500371, different data 2017-04-18 21:45:31.242045 osprd578/tcp.conn.rrd: Bug - duplicate RRD data with same timestamp 1492569931, different data From: Deepak Chaudhary [mailto:chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:46 PM To: LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L <dl1025 at att.com<mailto:dl1025 at att.com>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Graphs for Oracle Monitoring I didnt faced any such problem, after a while data started populating in charts. Can you see inside your 'trends' column? or anything in log files Regards, Deepak On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L <dl1025 at att.com<mailto:dl1025 at att.com>> wrote: I have charts come up but they are not being populated. The only charts that have data populated are rollback segments and invalid objects. Not sure why the data is not coming in for the other charts. I am using xymon 4.3.27 which I just installed for the first time. I finally got rid of my BigBrother BTF hack and converted to xymon. One of my issues is this dbcheck charts not coming up with data. Does anyone have any suggestions? From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Deepak Chaudhary Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:12 PM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Graphs for Oracle Monitoring I was able to figure it out reading some documentation. In case, if anyone gets stuck, add like last few lines - [bbhost] this is the name that dbcheck will report to hobbit/bb dbtype = Can be Oracle/Informix/SQLServer hostname = hostname for database (not needed if you want to use oracle tnsnames or for informix) sid = database sid (for informix this is the database name in the sqlhosts file) username = database username password = database password port = database port (not needed for oracle using tnsnames and informix) bbsessioncolumn = Session::fast bbtablespacecolumn = TblSpace::fast bblockscolumn = Locks::fast Last 4 lines will enable corresponding test columns and graph will generate accordingly. More documentation is available in ini file. Have fun. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Deepak Chaudhary <chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com<mailto:chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com>> wrote: I was able to figure it out reading some documentation. In case, if anyone gets stuck, add like last few lines - [bbhost] this is the name that dbcheck will report to hobbit/bb dbtype = Can be Oracle/Informix/SQLServer hostname = hostname for database (not needed if you want to use oracle tnsnames or for informix) sid = database sid (for informix this is the database name in the sqlhosts file) username = database username password = database password port = database port (not needed for oracle using tnsnames and informix) bbsessioncolumn = Session::fast bbtablespacecolumn = TblSpace::fast bblockscolumn = Locks::fast Last 4 lines will enable corresponding test columns and graph will generate accordingly. More documentation is available in ini file. Have fun. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Deepak Chaudhary <chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com<mailto:chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I was able to install / configure oracle monitoring on my xymon install per - https://www.xymon.com/docs/xymon-oracle.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.xymon.com_docs_xym…> Can someone pls help with next steps to create graphs for oracle monitoring? Regards, Deepak Chaudhary -- Deepak Chaudhary -- Deepak Chaudhary -- Deepak Chaudhary

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Graphs for Oracle Monitoring
by chaudharydeepak08＠gmail.com 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

I didnt faced any such problem, after a while data started populating in charts. Can you see inside your 'trends' column? or anything in log files Regards, Deepak On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM, LOZOVSKY, DANIEL L <dl1025 at att.com> wrote: > I have charts come up but they are not being populated. The only charts > that have data populated are rollback segments and invalid objects. Not > sure why the data is not coming in for the other charts. I am using xymon > 4.3.27 which I just installed for the first time. I finally got rid of my > BigBrother BTF hack and converted to xymon. One of my issues is this > dbcheck charts not coming up with data. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > > *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Deepak > Chaudhary > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:12 PM > *To:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Graphs for Oracle Monitoring > > > > I was able to figure it out reading some documentation. > > In case, if anyone gets stuck, add like last few lines - > [bbhost] this is the name that dbcheck will report to hobbit/bb > dbtype = Can be Oracle/Informix/SQLServer > hostname = hostname for database (not needed if you want to use oracle > tnsnames or for informix) > sid = database sid (for informix this is the database name in the > sqlhosts file) > username = database username > password = database password > port = database port (not needed for oracle using tnsnames and > informix) > bbsessioncolumn = Session::fast > bbtablespacecolumn = TblSpace::fast > bblockscolumn = Locks::fast > > Last 4 lines will enable corresponding test columns and graph will > generate accordingly. More documentation is available in ini file. > > Have fun. > > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Deepak Chaudhary < > chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I was able to figure it out reading some documentation. > > In case, if anyone gets stuck, add like last few lines - > [bbhost] this is the name that dbcheck will report to hobbit/bb > dbtype = Can be Oracle/Informix/SQLServer > hostname = hostname for database (not needed if you want to use oracle > tnsnames or for informix) > sid = database sid (for informix this is the database name in the > sqlhosts file) > username = database username > password = database password > port = database port (not needed for oracle using tnsnames and > informix) > > > *bbsessioncolumn = Session::fast bbtablespacecolumn = TblSpace::fast > bblockscolumn = Locks::fast* > > Last 4 lines will enable corresponding test columns and graph will > generate accordingly. More documentation is available in ini file. > > Have fun. > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Deepak Chaudhary < > chaudharydeepak08 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was able to install / configure oracle monitoring on my xymon install > per - > > https://www.xymon.com/docs/xymon-oracle.html > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.xymon.com_docs_xym…> > > Can someone pls help with next steps to create graphs for oracle > monitoring? > > > > Regards, > > Deepak Chaudhary > > > > -- > > Deepak Chaudhary > > > > > -- > > Deepak Chaudhary > -- Deepak Chaudhary

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Graphs for Oracle Monitoring
by chaudharydeepak08＠gmail.com 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Hi, I was able to install / configure oracle monitoring on my xymon install per - https://www.xymon.com/docs/xymon-oracle.html Can someone pls help with next steps to create graphs for oracle monitoring? Regards, Deepak Chaudhary

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Monitoring Multiple Windows Services with BBWin
by DWeaver＠mlgw.org 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Greetings! I am brand new to this list. Also, I'm brand new to Xymon and BBWin. However, I have worked with an old version of Big Brother for several years. I have created a brand new Xymon environment, with Xymon 4.3.27 on Linux as my master server. I am attempting to use BBWin 0.13 on various Windows 2008 and 2012 servers. All is working well with one exception. I need to monitor multiple Windows services on a given Windows server. Even though I add all of the services to the BBWin.cfg file, only one shows up on the "svcs" webpage for that server. Perhaps I have an error in my syntax? I will appreciate any help anyone can provide. Here's is an excerpt from the BBWin.cfg file on the server in question: <svcs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="autoreset" value="false" /> <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />  <setting name="Tomcat7" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_dbgateway" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_eventlogger" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="Netsense_GIS" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="Netsense_ImportData" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_logger" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_metricscollector" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_mips" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_publisher_amrdef" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_rcs" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_reports" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="netsense_selftest" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> <setting name="MASMonitor" value="started" autoreset="false" alarmcolor="red" /> </svcs> Many thanks! Doug MLGW now accepts VISA and MasterCard web payments for residential accounts! No more fees for any MLGW electronic payment. Register for My Account at www.mlgw.com. This e-mail and any attachments represent the views and opinions of only the sender and are not necessarily those of Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, and no such inference should be made.

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