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First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.
by kern_doe＠yahoo.com 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Hello, I've reinstalled xymon with following steps:1) unpack the downloaded xymon binary version 4.3.28 in /tmp (as root) 2) run configure script (as root) A few info to note: used mostly default values including group-ID=nobody IP-address of this host = 172.20.10.5 3) run: make (as root) 4) run: make install (as root) 5) Notes from xymon after the installation You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts. A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf If you have your Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory, then you must also setup the password-file with the htpasswd command. To start Xymon, as the xymon user run '/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start' To view the Xymon webpages, go to http://centos_hp0/xymon I'm kind of pausing at "You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts"... Any additional help is greatly appreciated.Kern -- Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons. From: Kern Doe via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> To: Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk>; "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>; "cleaver at terabithia.org" <cleaver at terabithia.org>; "josh at imaginenetworksllc.com" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>; "bferrell at baywinds.org" <bferrell at baywinds.org>; "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please. I thank to everyone who has replied to my email, if I miss anyone, I do apologize. Ok, so I've got super confused and you know what, I'm going to start everything all over fresh and clean -- that way, I can document it as I go along. I will do followings:1) shutdown xymon, and apache 2) I will even remove xymon ID and recreate it.3) keep /etc/hosts.cfg cat /etc/hosts.cfg 172.20.10.5 centos_hp0 # bbd http://centos_hp0/ 4) remove xymon's stuff in /etc/httpd/conf.d5) keep my test file for testing apache: /var/www/html/index.html cat index.html Welcome to Kern's webserver (sorry, I'm a real novice with apache since I'm a DBA) 6) anything else should I do as parts of trying to uninstall xymon, then reinstall? Thank you!!Kern -- Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons. From: Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk> To: xymon at xymon.com Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please. Looks more like an Apache config problem than Xymon. Do you have FollowSymLinks set?e.g.DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"<Directory "/var/www/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>Then I would take a look at the apache error log, it's usually pretty helpful in pointing out what the problem is.— Adrian Ball || ade at hp5.co.uk|| http://www.hp5.co.uk/Tel: 01629 822886 || Yahoo/AIM/MSN: adeatwollaton Mobile: 07539 623647 || http://www.facebook.com/adrian.ball3_______________________________________… Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.
by bferrell＠baywinds.org 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Apache, out of the box, will not follow symlinks. In your source tree look for xymon-apache.conf and put it into /etc/httpd/conf.d then restart apache On 09/26/2017 01:57 PM, Kern Doe via Xymon wrote: > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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exclude from alerts..
by metron6＠gmail.com 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

hello all, i have these lines in my alerts.cfg ignore line added recently, but it does not work.. i reboot my pbx's every morning at 5:00 what am i doing wrong ? HOST=%^PBX* SERVICE=conn IGNORE HOST=%^PBX* SERVICE=conn TIME=0500:0510 MAIL xxxxx at gmail.com REPEAT=30 RECOVERED -- regards, Metron 6 (six) Metron6 at gmail.com

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First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.
by kern_doe＠yahoo.com 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

I thank to everyone who has replied to my email, if I miss anyone, I do apologize. Ok, so I've got super confused and you know what, I'm going to start everything all over fresh and clean -- that way, I can document it as I go along. I will do followings:1) shutdown xymon, and apache 2) I will even remove xymon ID and recreate it.3) keep /etc/hosts.cfg cat /etc/hosts.cfg 172.20.10.5 centos_hp0 # bbd http://centos_hp0/ 4) remove xymon's stuff in /etc/httpd/conf.d5) keep my test file for testing apache: /var/www/html/index.html cat index.html Welcome to Kern's webserver (sorry, I'm a real novice with apache since I'm a DBA) 6) anything else should I do as parts of trying to uninstall xymon, then reinstall? Thank you!!Kern -- Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons. From: Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk> To: xymon at xymon.com Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please. Looks more like an Apache config problem than Xymon. Do you have FollowSymLinks set?e.g.DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"<Directory "/var/www/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>Then I would take a look at the apache error log, it's usually pretty helpful in pointing out what the problem is.— Adrian Ball || ade at hp5.co.uk|| http://www.hp5.co.uk/Tel: 01629 822886 || Yahoo/AIM/MSN: adeatwollaton Mobile: 07539 623647 || http://www.facebook.com/adrian.ball3_______________________________________… Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.
by ade＠hp5.co.uk 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Looks more like an Apache config problem than Xymon. Do you have FollowSymLinks set? e.g. DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" <Directory "/var/www/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> Then I would take a look at the apache error log, it's usually pretty helpful in pointing out what the problem is. -- Adrian Ball || ade at hp5.co.uk || https://u3456959.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=R34NQM2MkN3BtyfBWwgeFOb4iYjJP… Tel: 01629 822886 || Yahoo/AIM/MSN: adeatwollaton Mobile: 07539 623647 || https://u3456959.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=R34NQM2MkN3BtyfBWwgeFGuK9n9Li…

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First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.
by kern_doe＠yahoo.com 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hello, I'm a complete newbie to xymon and I don't have any luck on getting this to work yet. If you guys can help me out to at least see the xymon screen I really appreciate it, since I'm not getting that far.Kern -- Followings are what I've done: 1) my virtual Centos Linux (6.5) hostname: centos_hp0 hostname -i: 172.20.10.5 2) my apache is up and running: ps -eaf | grep http root 26388 1 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26391 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26392 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26393 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26394 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26395 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26396 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26397 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 26398 26388 0 16:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 2) installed xymon 4.3.28 on my virtual CentOS my hosts.cfg: ------------ ls -alt `find / -name "*host*cfg"` ls -alt `find / -name "*hosts*.cfg"` -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 559 Sep 26 14:25 /home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 613 Sep 25 10:22 /etc/hosts.cfg cat /etc/hosts.cfg ------------------ 172.20.10.5 centos_hp0 ls -alt /var/www/html --------------------- total 12 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 26 16:45 . lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Sep 26 16:45 index.html -> /home/xymon/server/www/xymon.html ** do I need to modify this file? xmon's index.html: ----------------- ls -al /home/xymon/server/www total 92 drwxr-xr-x. 10 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 16:48 . drwxr-xr-x. 9 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:25 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 4767 Sep 26 16:48 critical.html drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:25 gifs drwxr-xr-x. 3 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:25 help drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:23 html lrwxrwxrwx. 1 xymon xymon 10 Sep 26 16:48 index.html -> xymon.html drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:25 menu -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 20556 Sep 26 16:48 nongreen.html drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:23 notes -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 6591 Sep 26 16:48 red.html drwxrwxr-x. 2 xymon nobody 4096 Sep 26 14:23 rep drwxrwxr-x. 2 xymon nobody 4096 Sep 26 14:23 snap drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon 4096 Sep 26 14:23 wml -rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon 11317 Sep 26 16:48 xymon.html start xymon: ----------- /home/xymon/server/xymon.sh start Xymon started on the browser, type: 172.20.10.5 --------------------------------- Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at 172.20.10.5 Port 80 Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons.

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"Roll-up" of purple alerts and their recoveries.
by john＠executech.com 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

For our organization, we rarely have a purple alert that isn't the entire server going offline. So we solved it by only sending purple alert messages for the CPU and wrote a custom message that says, your CPU is purple but it's likely your server is down. Please log in and check it. Then, in the alerts.cfg file, our rules look like this: PAGE=%.*pagename/ SCRIPT=/path/to/alert.sh name at email.com COLOR=red,yellow RECOVERED REPEAT=720 DURATION>3 SCRIPT=/path/to/purple.sh name at email.com COLOR=purple SERVICE=cpu RECOVERED REPEAT=720 DURATION>3 Thanks, John Tullis -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] [Jean-Pierre.Pitout at mtn.com] Received: Thursday, 21 Sep 2017, 3:38AM To: xymon at xymon.com [xymon at xymon.com] Subject: Re: [Xymon] "Roll-up" of purple alerts and their recoveries. Has anyone written a custom script to achieve this? Regards, JP Pitout On 20/09/2017 10:03, Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] wrote: > > Good day, > > I haven't been able to find too much information on this topic. > > Is it possible to configure Xymon to "roll-up" multiple purple alerts as > well as their respective recoveries into one single event/alert? This is > mostly just for purple status that causes a multitude of mails. > > Any info would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks! > JP Pitout > > "This email is confidential. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply email and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person as to do so could be a breach of confidentiality. Thank you for your co-operation. " > > “The information contained in this message is intended solely for the individual to whom it is specifically and originally addressed. This message and its contents may contain confidential or privileged information from MTN Group. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or distribution, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please notify MTN Group immediately and delete it. MTN Group does not accept any liability or responsibility if action is taken in reliance on the contents of this information . Note that all personal emails are not authorized by MTN Group. ” > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > “The information contained in this message is intended solely for the individual to whom it is specifically and originally addressed. This message and its contents may contain confidential or privileged information from MTN Group. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or distribution, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please notify MTN Group immediately and delete it. MTN Group does not accept any liability or responsibility if action is taken in reliance on the contents of this information . Note that all personal emails are not authorized by MTN Group. ” _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon John Tullis 801.857.4572 Cell 801.253.4541 Office 1314 W. 11400 S. Suite 200 South Jordan, UT 84095

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"Roll-up" of purple alerts and their recoveries.
by Jean-Pierre.Pitout＠mtn.com 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Good day, I haven't been able to find too much information on this topic. Is it possible to configure Xymon to "roll-up" multiple purple alerts as well as their respective recoveries into one single event/alert? This is mostly just for purple status that causes a multitude of mails. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! JP Pitout "This email is confidential. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply email and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person as to do so could be a breach of confidentiality. Thank you for your co-operation. " “The information contained in this message is intended solely for the individual to whom it is specifically and originally addressed. This message and its contents may contain confidential or privileged information from MTN Group. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or distribution, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please notify MTN Group immediately and delete it. MTN Group does not accept any liability or responsibility if action is taken in reliance on the contents of this information . Note that all personal emails are not authorized by MTN Group. ”

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How do you handle retired servers?
by traxler＠lsu.edu 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

When a server is retured, I really hate to removeit from xymon, but it is annoying to have to preiodically disable the the tests. How do folks handle this? Do you simply delete them and move on? It seems like that tosses some potentionally useful historical information. -- Isaac Traxler Storage & Infrastructure Manager High Performance Computing Louisiana State University, LONI 325 Frey Computing Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 225-578-1923 | traxler at lsu.edu

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Configuring analysis.cfg
by scarville＠lereta.com 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

I added the following lines to analysis.cfg: LOAD 8.0 12.0 HOST=scamanda01.lereta.com HOST=scaqmsrr01d.lereta.net PORT LOCAL=%*:5000 STATE=LISTEN TEXT="dgt balancer" As I understand the man page, the first should cause the cpu to go yellow at a load average of 8.0 and red at 12.0 but only for scamanda01.lereta.com. The second and third lines should cause xymon to report the state of port 5000 for scaqmsrr01d.lereta.net. My understanding must be wrong because neither works as I expect them to. Did I mess up the syntax? Is there something else I need to do to make this work? -- Stephen -- Stephen Carville Serf Without Portfolio 800.537.3821 x1326 scarville at nospam.lereta.com ------------------------------------------------- There is no "I" in Team but there is in Integrity.

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