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Xymon Client with Big Brother Server
by juanc_st＠yahoo.com 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hello Guys; I have a client with a whole BB infrastructure and they want to add a new server to the monitoring, can I use the Xymon client to connect to the Big Brother Server version 1.9i? Thanks Juan Carlos

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xymon-powershell.ps1
by sgb＠pics.com 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hi Is there a way to send an html table through the xymon-powershell.ps1 script? I currently use bb-central where I have a Linux script that runs on the xymon server. I'm able to send the html table with the following OBJFILE="<iframe name=\"locktbl\" src=\"/hobbit/dba/${RHOST}/${MNAME}-lock.html\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"600\" width=\"1200\"></iframe>" LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR ${OBJFILE} " $BB $BBDISP "$LINE" #SEND IT TO BBDISPLAY The status line is very similar to the xymon-powershell.ps1 input powershell -file xymon-powershell.ps1 %XYMSRV% "status %COMPUTERNAME%.mytest green %DATE% %TIME%" "The status of 'mytest' is 'satisfactory' at %DATE% %TIME%" "" "here's the last line" I basically want to replace the "The status of 'mytest' is 'satisfactory' at %DATE% %TIME%" with an html table. Thank you for your help Steve

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logfetch issue - sending old data causing false alerts
by Max.Xu＠servicenow.com 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Hi, Logfetch is sending old data causing false alerts. The log file looks somewhat like this: Error 2017-06-14 11:36:58.613343 39915 2184308576 Compare server: …… Error 2017-06-14 11:36:58.613481 39913 1581872992 Command server: …… …… (note. The above repeat about 780K times) Info 2017-06-14 13:07:41.113163 1193 1036199776 Compare server exited normally, pid = 45494 [sp_desvr] ….. Error 2017-06-15 02:42:22.820068 1761 2399766368 Command server:….. …… At 6/19 and 6/20, msgs alert generated with all the old data of 6/14 and 6/15 etc. below is sniper of alert on 6/19 Mon Jun 19 17:48:57 PDT 2017 - Log files NOT ok [red] Critical entries in /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log<https://monitor01.lhr9.service-now.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=ora164…> [red] Error 2017-06-14 12:07:24.545252 9795 1581102944 Command server: ReconcileLog: failed to construct object-cache: Illegal state: Item 372354 already in the object id registry (connecting from ora164106.sjc4.service-now.com) [module osp] [red] Error 2017-06-14 12:07:24.545499 9795 1581102944 Command server: ReconcileLog: failed to construct object-cache: Illegal state: Item 372356 already in the object id registry (connecting from ora164106.sjc4.service-now.com) [module osp] Meantime, see xymonclient.log: 2017-06-19 17:49:01.428381 logfetch: File /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log shrank from >=173538314 to 48414720 bytes in size. Probably rotated; clearing position state 2017-06-19 17:49:01.428462 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 48414720 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 17:51:05.086815 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538314 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 17:53:09.134469 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538314 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 17:55:12.647682 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538314 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 17:57:16.163913 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538314 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 17:59:19.662801 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538314 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 18:01:23.180499 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173538453 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-19 18:03:26.777636 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 125123733 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:42:01.519481 logfetch: File /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log shrank from >=173541482 to 74420224 bytes in size. Probably rotated; clearing position state 2017-06-20 06:42:01.519557 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 74420224 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:44:05.173606 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:46:08.670466 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:48:12.188216 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:50:15.683455 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:52:19.250727 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:54:22.752463 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 173541633 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data 2017-06-20 06:56:23.426678 logfetch: /u01/shareplex/var/log/event_log delta 99121409 bytes exceeds max buffer size 10485760; skipping some data Noted. 1. The above 2m interval is my setup of xymon client. 2. It seems the logfetch status file is not successfully saved and source code shows no error check (so no direct evidence). 3. The behavior only last under 20 min. The server itself did not have disk and cpu alerts and no one report any issues related to disk and io. I was told that this behavior is not new although rarely happen. Is there any solution or work round? My running version is: Xymon version 4.3.25-1.el6.terabithia Thanks, -max

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Color blind access to graphs
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Hi everyone, One of the end users in my organization is color blind. That makes reading the various graphs in Xymon very difficult. I know it's possible to use multigraphs to keep the datapoint limit per graph at 4 or less, but is it possible to make it default to 1 datapoint per graph, or even just for specific graphs? Thanks! Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | * 734-384-6403 | | * 7349151444 | * Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:%7BE-mail%7D> www<http://www.la-z-boy.com/>.la-z-boy.com<http://www.la-z-boy.com/> | facebook.<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>com<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>/<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>lazboy<http://facebook.com/lazboy> | twitter.com/lazboy<https://twitter.com/lazboy> | youtube.com/<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy>lazboy<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy> [cid:lzbVertical_hres.jpg] This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you.

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Color blind access to graphs
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

I didn't either, but either way there's only so many greyscales that you can pick out of a picture. I think it would be easier to read if it's changed to one value per graph. Scot Kreienkamp Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | Office: 734-384-6403 | | Mobile: 7349151444 | Email: Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com On Jun 26, 2017, at 5:01 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com<mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>> wrote: I didn't think we had any control over the colors of the default graphs. =G= ________________________________ From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>> on behalf of Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com<mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 4:32 PM To: Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Color blind access to graphs EXTERNAL Wouldn't it be smarter to use colors that are distinguishable? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jun 26, 2017 4:31 PM, "Scot Kreienkamp" <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com>> wrote: Hi everyone, One of the end users in my organization is color blind. That makes reading the various graphs in Xymon very difficult. I know it’s possible to use multigraphs to keep the datapoint limit per graph at 4 or less, but is it possible to make it default to 1 datapoint per graph, or even just for specific graphs? Thanks! Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | • 734-384-6403<tel:(734)%20384-6403> | | • 7349151444<tel:(734)%20915-1444> | • Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:%7BE-mail%7D> www<http://www.la-z-boy.com/>.la-z-boy.com<http://www.la-z-boy.com/> | facebook.<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>com<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>/<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>lazboy<http://facebook.com/lazboy> | twitter.com/lazboy<https://twitter.com/lazboy> | youtube.com/<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy>lazboy<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy> [cid:lzbVertical_hres.jpg] This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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html classes
by dboldt＠usgs.gov 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Not sure if this is the right venue for posting feature requests, but it would be useful if html which is generated by programs specified unique html classes wherever possible to allow CSS styling. An example, for Information Tables: *** web/csvinfo.c 2017-06-19 14:14:13.186316715 -0500 --- web/csvinfo.c.new 2017-06-19 14:11:16.385617041 -0500 *************** *** 185,191 **** sethostenv(wantedname, "", "", colorname(bgcolor), NULL); headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "header", bgcolor); ! printf("<table align=center border=1 summary=\"Information table\">\n"); for (i=0; (headers[i]); i++) { printf("<tr>\n"); --- 185,191 ---- sethostenv(wantedname, "", "", colorname(bgcolor), NULL); headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "header", bgcolor); ! printf("<table class=\"informationTable\" align=center border=1 summary=\"Information table\">\n"); for (i=0; (headers[i]); i++) { printf("<tr>\n"); which would permit one to specify in file: gifs/xymonbody.css table.informationTable td { margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em } to add a little spacing within the table cells around the text. -- David Boldt <dboldt at usgs.gov>

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xymon client bindaddress
by ve2cii＠canasoft.net 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Well it was working HI!! Here is an except from my hosts.cfg EXAMPLE: 192.168.55.55 eth0:0 192.168.2.56 voip1.example.com (eth0) but voip1 is actually mapped on the DNS to eth0:0 I have xymon-client starting up /home/xymon/runclient.sh --hostname=voip1.example.com Up till now everything runs ok. (I have not tried a failover, as I just wanted to get it to work). Probably report as a ghost when it fails over. When I add this, then I get ghost reports: Weird, xymon-server reports itself as one of the ghosts. 192.168.2.56 voip1-2.example.com (eth0 on primary) 192.168.2.57 voip1-3.example.com (eth0 on secondary) On 6/8/17 9:49 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Just a nudge, consider what I said about monitoring both servers all > the time. Otherwise, if one server dies, but xymon shows all green, > you won't know there is a problem until the second server dies too. > > Regards, > Adam > > On 8/6/17 23:10, Frank wrote: >> When I say xymon, I mean the xymon-client. The xymon-server is on >> a different machine. >> >> On 6/7/17 7:46 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> >>> On 8/6/17 07:46, Frank wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am doing something that I don't think has been done with >>>> xymon before. We are running asterisk on a failover >>>> heartbeat system. When the failover occurs heartbeat shuts down >>>> everything on the primary server and xymon >>>> goes nuts. So I set up heartbeat to stop xymon when it shuts >>>> everything else down. Now when the "floating IP" >>>> goes to the secondary server, the secondary starts up all the >>>> services and I set it up for xymon to start too. I was >>>> thinking would be a great idea if I could bind xymon to the >>>> floating IP the same way I do it for the rest of the >>>> services. So far during tests it seems to be working out ok >>>> without the binding, but may be necessary after all. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> When you say "xymon" do you mean xymon-client or are you running the >>> xymon server components on this redundant system? >>> >>> It seems to me that running the monitoring system on the same system >>> that you are monitoring is likely to lead to problems (ie, on total >>> system failure you won't be told about it). I would suggest to run >>> the monitoring on a 3rd server, which is stand-alone from this pair. >>> Xymon doesn't care which IP address the client reports originate >>> from, as long as the name is correct. >>> >>> However, I would advise to have both systems report status >>> individually, with their own names, then you can see the status of >>> each server in the pair. In order to alert and see the status of the >>> services provided by the pair, then you can use combined status such >>> as procs on serverA OR procs on serverB = procs green for Service >>> and so on. >>> >>> Hope this helps... >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adam >>> >>> >> > -- sysadm cronomagic.com/gemstelecom.com e-mail ve2cii at canasoft.net POWERED BY LINUX

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questions
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Chad What does the director do? How does it communicate with the servers? Does the director or the server create a log message when there's a problem? Xymon can detect and alarm on that. Does the director connect to the servers on a specific TCP port? If that port is rejecting a connection, the Xymon server can test for that (every 5 minutes, but can be more often) and alarm on it. When a server fails, does it stop listening on a particular TCP port? Or perhaps a process crashes and restarts, causing the connection to fail? Xymon can test for these and alarm when it detects a missing listening or established TCP socket, or a missing process. It's also possible to write a script to have Xymon look at the process listing "ps" output, and look for a particular process's lifetime, and alert when it's less than 5 minutes. One thing to note is that Xymon's probes and processes typically look for things every 5 minutes. Transient failures that come and go within a few seconds may not be detected using the standard probes and checks. However, the frequency of some of these probes can be increased to make it more likely to catch failures. But also, a custom script can be written to check the state as often as you need. However for transient faults, it's more reliable to look for artefacts of a failure (log errors and warnings, short process lifetime) rather than periodically checking for a successful state. J On 22 June 2017 at 22:59, Chad Rodriguez <CHrodriguez at petsmart.com> wrote: > Symptom, we open up director and see application servers not communicating > at the same time we can ping server by hostname and IP> > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Chad Rodriguez | Systems Administrator > > 19601 N. 27th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027 > > office: 623-587-2385 | fax: 623-580-6117 > > email – chrodriguez at petsmart.com > > [image: PetSmart_logo_email.jpg] > > *Upcoming Out-of-Office dates**:* > > *June 26th through July 4th* > > *July 21st* > > > > *From:* Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 22, 2017 3:23 AM > *To:* Chad Rodriguez <CHrodriguez at PetSmart.com> > *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] questions > > > > Chad > > > > Situations like what exactly? When a server is rebooted? Or when a server > stops communicating? Can you explain what symptoms? What is a "director"? > Sorry, I'm not familiar with the Solarwinds product. > > > > Out of the box, Xymon can detect a few different types of communication > issues (eg ping checks, TCP port responses) as well as monitoring logfiles > for messages that indicate trouble. Furthermore, Xymon is highly > extensible, so if you can write a script to perform a test for your > problem, you can turn it into a message for Xymon to display, and > optionally alarm via email or other means. > > > > Cheers > > Jeremy > > > > > > On 22 June 2017 at 07:07, Chad Rodriguez <CHrodriguez at petsmart.com> wrote: > > We have no monitoring in place other than solarwinds which monitors > heartbeats. Essentially we have a few application servers that are randomly > not communicating with the director and were having to reboot them. Seeing > if your application would alert on situations like this in an email > notification format? > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Chad Rodriguez | Systems Administrator > > 19601 N. 27th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027 > > office: 623-587-2385 | fax: 623-580-6117 > > email – chrodriguez at petsmart.com > > [image: PetSmart_logo_email.jpg] > > *Upcoming Out-of-Office dates**:* > > *June 26th through July 4th* > > *July 21st* > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > >

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questions
by CHrodriguez＠PetSmart.com 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

We have no monitoring in place other than solarwinds which monitors heartbeats. Essentially we have a few application servers that are randomly not communicating with the director and were having to reboot them. Seeing if your application would alert on situations like this in an email notification format? Respectfully, Chad Rodriguez | Systems Administrator 19601 N. 27th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027 office: 623-587-2385 | fax: 623-580-6117 email - chrodriguez at petsmart.com<mailto:chrodriguez at petsmart.com> [PetSmart_logo_email.jpg] Upcoming Out-of-Office dates: June 26th through July 4th July 21st

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Windows Powershell client
by solitaryr＠gmail.com 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hey, I'm having one hell of a time tracking this down. Where is the Powershell client? I want to add the link to Xymonton. Is this the correct url? https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/ Or is there a better place to get it? thanks =G=

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