September 2017 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

receiving sms alerts...
by metron6＠gmail.com 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

hello all, i got a subscription to an SMS gateway, and the script they gave me is this: ------------ *<?php* *// Simple SMS send function* *function* sendSMS($key, $to, $message, $originator) { $URL = *"https:**//smscenter.gr/api/sms/send?key= <http://smscenter.gr/api/sms/send?key=>" . $key . "&to=" . $to;* $URL .= *"&text="* . urlencode( $message ) . '&from=' . urlencode( $originator ); $fp = fopen( $URL, 'r' ); return fread( $fp, 1024 ); } *// Example of use* $response = sendSMS( 'myapikey', 'recipientnumber', 'My test message', 'from' ); echo $response; *?>* *-------* *how could i implement it inside alerts.cfg in order to get sms alerts ?* -- regards, Metron 6 (six) Metron6 at gmail.com

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Big RRD files causing problems
by David.Mills＠hhsc.state.tx.us 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Hi! Since upgrading to a new Xymon ( 4.3.28-1.el6.terabithia<http://xymon.sourceforge.net/> / Linux from 4.3.3 on Solaris ) , my RRD file storage consumption is *much* greater than on the old server. It's gotten so I have to manually groom the RRD files every 48 hours or they overflow the file system. Here are some stats: NOTE: Same set of hosts with same tests on both the old server (4.3.3 / Solaris) and the Terabithia distro for RHEL 6: Picking out the current biggest offender (the list varies but tracks pretty much along the lines of the largest hosts with the most data to send): NEW Server OLD Server Total space consumed for .../rrd 90GB 14GB # of files beneath .../rrd/pwow706/ 1,916 25,815 Avg file size (eyeballing it) 423K 38K Any ideas? Where can I read up on what RRD files Xymon puts into the RRD directory? Thx! ;-) David Mills ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ System Administrator Northrop Grumman Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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ddns hosts and flapping status...
by metron6＠gmail.com 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

hello all, i'm trying to monitor some ddns hosts, but i get some strange results.. in hosts.cfg i have subpage Metron6-Gateways Metron 6 Gateways title Metron 6 Gateways 0.0.0.0 metron6-vdsl1.ddns.net 0.0.0.0 metron6-vdsl2.ddns.net 0.0.0.0 metron6-adsl1.ddns.net and the results are: WARNING: Flapping status Tue Sep 12 02:26:15 2017 conn NOT ok : DNS lookup failed Unable to resolve hostname metron6-adsl1.ddns.net System unreachable for 287 poll periods (83744 seconds) 0.0.0.0 is alive (23.0 ms)regards, the hostname is certainly resolvable... the graph attached is more strange... Metron 6 (six) Metron6 at gmail.com

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create a read only page
by mailinglist＠tikklik.nl 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hello, Is it possible to create a read only frontpage So only with the green/yellow/red icons but without the links to the detail pages With regards Steffan

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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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Configuring port checks
by scarville＠lereta.net 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

There is a column called "ports" which is always clear and tells me that there are "No port checks defined". Is there way to define these checks? -- Stephen

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Configuring port checks
by scarville＠lereta.com 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

There is a column called "ports" which is always clear and tells me that there are "No port checks defined". Is there way to define these checks? -- Stephen

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Error Logs?
by scarville＠lereta.com 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

I have been testing xymon to replace the big-brother system. Some time during the additions and deletions I seem to have messed up something because the status pages no longer update and the service links fail with errors like: Cannot load host configuration or The requested URL /xymon-cgi/30 was not found on this server. I've tried the obvious thinks like restarting xymon and apache. Is there an error log or logs I can look at to find out why? server: CentOS7 - 7.3.1611 xymon: 4.3.28 httpd: 2.4.6

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Why no host comments?
by David.Mills＠hhsc.state.tx.us 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Howdy, All! We're in the process of migrating our current Xymon 4.3.3 site to a new host (Solaris -> Linux) and upgrading to a new Xymon version (JC's Terabithia RPMs: Xymon 4.3.28-1.el6.terabithia<http://xymon.sourceforge.net/>). One of the wrinkles that has me stumped is that none of the hundreds of host "COMMENT:" tags is appearing on the new server's pages! Example: On the old server an entry like this: x.x.x.x hwap142 # COMMENT:"Batch App Server" // Displays a like this on the web page: hwap142 (Batch App Server) but the same line on the new server shows only: hwap142 --- All the associated test columns and colors are showing up just fine. Aside from the missing "COMMENT:" values, host entries appear as expected. Clue: for some reason mousing over the name of the host on the web page reveals the missing COMMENT: text! Help!? <smile> === David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238

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Need Help To Create New Custom Webpage on Xymon
by gangireddy.ch＠gmail.com 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

Hi Team, I am using Xymon 4.3.27 and monitoring ports, process, disk space usage. Now I am planing to implement more and below is the requirement. >We have weblogic environments with a webservice deployed. >Need to pass SOAP Request to call the webservice. >Need to create dedicated webpage on xymon server to call that webservice. >webpage should have dropdown list to select target environmnet. > on submit it should pass soap request to webapplication deployed on target weblogic environment. > webpage on xymon server should display the SOAP response of webapplication. Can you please help me to implement this. Thanks in advance ! Thanks & Regards, Gangi Reddy

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