November 2018 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

PSclient ext speedtest
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hi again. I've created a simple speedtest PS1 script for use as a PSclient ext test for one of our clients. The results are inaccurate though because apparently when the script runs headless it's super fast, but running it manually via a PS Console runs slower and a gives more accurate results. This isn't really a Xymon question, but since there's a lot of smart folks who read this I figured I'd ask. Anyone have an accurate PS speedtest that I can run in my script? Attached is my script. -- Kris Springer

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Xymon not showing up hosts in the html web page
by William.Gregoire＠ca.ebarrette.com 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hello, I have been working on a situation with my xymon server for over a week, I cant find the solution. For some reason I am unable to see the hosts I add in my hosts.cfg file on the main webpage of xymon. I have 2 location on my server where hosts files are. 1- /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg 2- /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg Whaterver i do in those 2 hosts files, nothing happen. I added a screenshot to this email so you can see what my home page looks like. If you have any suggestion regarding this situation, thanks in advance.

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PSclient sending from intranet
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

Anyone have an idea about how to collect client server stats using the Powershell client on machines that are on an intranet that blocks port 1984, and send it out to our external xymon server located in a different part of the country? The intranet network doesn't want to open any additional ports to allow the traffic out. -- Kris Springer Innovate! Inc. Systems Admin & Support

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File monitoring
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi everyone, I'm trying to monitor for the existence of some files. I have the entries in client-local.config, and when the files exist they are being reported back properly. I can see the data about each file when I click on it in the files area for the server. The problem comes when the files don't exist. The files entry for the server remains green, but when I click on the file that I'm monitoring it says ERROR: No such file or directory. So Xymon client is sending back that it doesn't exist, but yet Xymon is still green. Here's the client-local.cfg for that server: [retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq] file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).pgc` file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).sql.gz` file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/basebackup-$(date +%F).tgz` file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).pgc` file:`echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/quartz-$(date +%F).sql.gz` And the analysis.cfg HOST=retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq FILE `echo /automount/PITR/retvpgpdbak.na.lzb.hq/rms-prod-$(date +%F).pgc` red TYPE=file SIZE>0 MTIME<108000 >From the man-page, Xymon is supposed to send an alert if the file doesn't exist... So the only thing I can think of is that my analysis.cfg entry is wrong somehow. 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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Project: Xymon dashboard
by herzog＠phys.ethz.ch 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi all, for the past 3 weeks we've been working on a new Xymon web frontend that better fits our needs of managing our somewhat extensive (~ 900 hosts) setup. It's now in a state of being ready for daily use, so we would like to announce it in case somebody else is interested: https://github.com/daduke/Xymondash Let us know if you have comments or even pull requests! cheers, -Christian -- Dr. Christian Herzog <herzog at phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 26 68 IT Services Group, HPT H 8 voice: +41 44 633 39 50 Department of Physics, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/

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Spliting tests to different pages.
by chrisp＠lightstoneauto.co.za 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Good day. Hope all is well. I configured yum tests on all my Linux servers. The test works great. Problem is doesn't matter how often you update the server, it wont be long before the yum test changes state. We look at the non-green view to display current issues(on a large led screen), the non-green view will show all the servers that has a yellow or red alert associated with them, thus all the Linux servers will show. The yum test is a script running on each server, configured clientlaunch.cfg for each server to run the script every n minites. My question is if it is possible to configure xymon to display all the yum related info for all servers on a page and exclude the yum tests from the different pages where the servers are configured? Or if there is a solution out there that I can implement to keep the non-green view to show current related issues, please send link to a guide that can assist me. Kind Regards [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/AUTOlogoW.png] Chris Pretorius [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/phone.png] 0872367740 [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/email.png] chrisp at lightstone.co.za<mailto:chrisp at lightstone.co.za> [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/web.png] www.signio.co.za<http://www.signio.co.za> [https://lsc-assets.scdn1.secure.raxcdn.com/lssig/address.png] Centurion Square, 3rd Floor, cnr Heuwel and Gordon Hood rd, Centurion This communication is subject to Lightstone's email disclaimer<http://www.lightstone.co.za/portal/content/email-disclaimer.aspx>

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Windows tests go purple if server is listed twice.
by scarville＠lereta.com 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

A while back I create a special page with only a subset of the regular tests listed. Just the result for conn mostly. This was no problem until I had to add Windows servers to it. I can add a Linux box under "group-only conn Linux" and that does not affect the tests displayed on the other pages. However if I add a Windows server under "group-only conn Windows" tests like dns and ftp do not update and eventually go purple. Any results received from the Windows client are unaffected. It doesn't seem to matter if the Windows server has a client on it or not. XYMon version: 4.3.28 Server OS: CentOS 7 Windows client: BBWin 0.13 (not all Windows servers have the client) -- Stephen

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xymon startup on macs
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

One of my Macs (older OS, 10.6 aka Snow Leopard) comes up purple after reboot, requiring killing the client's xymonlaunch process (which launchd restarts, and then comes up ok). This is because the hostname isn't properly set yet. I had a workaround that worked on other systems, but not that one, in the form of a modified runclient.sh script that took an additional option to wait until it could e.g. ping the xymon server by name before proceeding with the rest of what the script does, at which point the network would be up and the hostname set. Looking at the Mac man page for hostname, I saw mention of a way to set the hostname that would persist across reboots: scutil --set HostName name-of-host Did that, rebooted, and it came up fine. That should probably avoid the need to hack up runclient.sh (and bring changes forward when updating). There might be undesirable implications for doing that on a laptop that was used on different networks, though.

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TIME syntax question
by scott.birl＠temple.edu 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

TIME=12345:1200:2100 -----Original Message----- From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:30 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] TIME syntax question Trying to find the actual syntax for the TIME specification in alerts.cfg So something like TIME=*:1200:2100 only sends that alerts during that time, 7 days a week. I assume the * is for day of the week. So if you only wanted to send it Monday - Friday, what is the syntax for it? Is it like cron where I can put 1-5 in there like TIME=1-5:1200:2100 or am I totally off base? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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TIME syntax question
by jeremy.ruffer＠gmail.com 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

You csn use W for weekdays. Jeremy On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:35 Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Neal, Jonathan W" <wes.neal at verizon.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:30:09 -0400 > Subject: TIME syntax question > Trying to find the actual syntax for the TIME specification in alerts.cfg > > So something like TIME=*:1200:2100 only sends that alerts during that > time, 7 days a week. I assume the * is for day of the week. So if you > only wanted to send it Monday - Friday, what is the syntax for it? Is it > like cron where I can put 1-5 in there like TIME=1-5:1200:2100 or am I > totally off base? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon" <xymon at xymon.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:30:09 -0400 > Subject: [Xymon] TIME syntax question > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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