September 2017 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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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undocumented option on logfetch
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

I see my CentOS client script ~/client/bin/xymonclient.sh includes a call to logfetch with "--clock". On my client, it spills three times, epoch/local/UTC This option is not documented on the logfetch.1.html page. Looking in source, --clock appears to be the only undocumented option. Is this lack of documentation by design or oversight? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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Where is the linux client name set?
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

It's been a couple of years since I've needed to configure a linux client (my Solaris systems are still running their old BB clients). And I'm confused with what I'm seeing. This is on a _very_ minimal server installation with client; compiled from source. I have files in ~/client/tmp/ of the form msg.xymonx.state.ak.us.txt (so fully-qualified host.domain name). Yet the first line of that file is: client xymonx.linux linux So the message body being sent to the xymon server contains the short host name. But the client is writing the file onto the disk with the fully-qualified name. The xymon server reports my client messages as 'ghosts', and correctly picks them up if I put a client alias in hosts.cfg client:xymonx I'd like to do away with that alias. Where is my linux client picking up this short name? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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How to configure alerts.
by velpulavenkat6＠gmail.com 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hi Team, How to configure alerts specific server to specific user only get alerts. Regards Venkat

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xymongen - add static text to a page?
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Is there a way to insert additional static text on a specific page generated by xymongen? I've found the the --pagetext-headings option for xymongen. This puts the page/sub-page description at the top of the page. That's not waht I need. What I'm after is kind of like the COMMENT option in hosts.cfg for hosts, but I want something for pages. > COMMENT:Host comment > Adds a small text after the hostname on the web page. The TITLE option in hosts.cfg also comes close, but agai, isn't right. -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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create a read only page
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Not sure how you'd do this from a Xymon config stand point. But you could setup your web server config (e.g. httpd.conf) to control access to various Xymon pages. A lot of the fine detail is produced with scripts in the xymon-cgi directory. You could require authentication for anything with those links, or simply anything that ISN'T your front page. 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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ftp test with ":q" parameter
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I concur with Brian. The most likely reason for the ":q" was an errant vi quit command. Looks like a ":s" would be valid. I'll refer you to the manpage for host.cfg ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html) under the heading "Simple Network Tests". My reading of that suggests that you would use that configuration directive to tell Xymon not to send any of the test data defined for the service from the protocols.cfg file. I'll also point out, that the :21 isn't necessary either. This would only be necessary if you wanted to test a service that would be running on a non-standard port. The example given is ssh. Ordinarily, that runs on port 22, but if you wanted to perform an SSH test listening on port 8022, you would use "ssh:8022". The default port number is defined in protocols.cfg ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/protocols.cfg.5.html) . If a port number for a defined service is not found, it will use what is defined in /etc/services, if one can be found. 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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Tag to make NCV engine ignore status text
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I believe the tags you're referring to are the ones listed in the xymond_rrd module manpage ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond_rrd.8.html#lbah ). Available for use is:    ...</-->  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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ftp test with ":q" parameter
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I found this in my hosts.cfg and can't figure out what I was trying do: 0.0.0.0 foo.bar.com # ftp:21:q I can't find any documentation for the :q parameter. I'm looking in source, but can't find now where those are parsed. What does/did this :q do? Anything? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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