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xymongen & nopropred/nopropyellow
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

I am currently running 4.3.21 on a Ubuntu 14.04LTS server. I want to prevent some tests from propagating up to the nongreen page. I have set XYMONGENOPTS in xymonserver.cfg to: XYMONGENOPTS="-nopropyellow=test1 --nopropred=test2 --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=1" and test1 & test2 will still show on the nongreen page. I have also set these on the xymongen command line in tasks.cfg: CMD xymongen $XYMONGENOPTS --report --nongreen-ignorecolumns=msgs --eventignore=msgs,http --nopropred=test2 --nopropyellow=test1 --no-eventlog And the tests still show up on the nongreen page. FWIW, the tests added to "--nongreen-ignorecolumns" are dropped from the nongreen page. I also tried the following in hosts.cfg (which also doesn't work): 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOPROPRED:test2 NOPROPYELLOW:test1 Any ideas of what I am missing or doing wrong? Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: _____________________________________________________________________ John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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HELP INSTALL XYMON-CLIENT ON AIX 6.1
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Well, today's your lucky day.. I went through the process of building the latest client (v4.3.28) for AIX 6.1 just a couple days ago. Unfortunately, it wasn't as simple as "extract; ./configure.client; make; make install" as the documentation would have you believe. I had to jump through some hoops. I'll tell you what I did. If you run into any problems. Please include any output in your replies. First, in order to compile, I needed to have a number of open source packages installed. You can get all of them from "perzl.org". I already had a GNU C compiler on my machine, but if you don't, you'll need that: http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Gcc I needed to install the following extra packages. For the PCRE packages, you need to be sure to install both the MAIN package AND the "devel" package. http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Make http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Pcre After installing those packages, I had to make a slight modification to one of the Make files. In "build/Makefile.AIX", I commented out lines 14 and 15, and uncommented lines 10 and 11. The result of doing this is, the build process would use "GCC" instead of the IBM "cc" if it is installed. There MIGHT be a flag available to specify which to use and avoid modifying these files. I haven't looked. I just opted with that approach After making those changes, you should be able to run the "./configure.client" script, but I had to run it this way: # MAKE=gmake ./configure.client --pcreinclude /usr/include --pcrelib /usr/lib To deconstruct that, it sets the MAKE variable so the script uses "gmake" instead of "make". Also, it's ttelling it where it is supposed to find the PCRE include files and share libraries. On my system it was "/usr/include" and "/usr/lib" respectively. After that, the configure script passed and complete successfully. From there I was able to simply run "make; make install" and when that was finished, I cd'd to the install directory I specified, and ran "./runclient.sh start" If you're going to install this on multiple AIX machines, you do not have to do the build process on each machine. I just tar up the directory where I installed on the one machine, and extract it out onto the other machines. In order for that to work, you have to have, at a minimum the PCRE package installed. Xymon won't run without it. Dependency hell is no fun. I installed Make and PCRE with the "--nodeps" flag and managed to get away with it. Your milage may vary. Just in case, here is a list of packages I have installed. Not ALL of those will be needed for this install; this is just what I have my machines currently. If you don't have them, most if not all of these, should be available from "perzl.org". Build machine: cdrecord-1.9-7 mkisofs-1.13-4 gdb-6.0-1 tcl-8.3.3-1 tk-8.3.3-1 expect-5.32-1 libgcc-4.0.0-1 libjpeg-8b-1 gcc-4.2.0-3 libgcc-4.2.0-3 libstdc++-4.2.0-3 gcc-c++-4.2.0-3 AIX-rpm-6.1.7.0-8 zlib-1.2.4-1 libstdc++-devel-4.2.0-3 bash-4.1-4 libpng-1.2.43-1 sysbench-0.4.12-1 AfterStep-1.8.10-1 grep-2.22-1 gettext-0.10.40-8 pcre-8.39-1 make-4.1-1 pcre-devel-8.41-1 Client machines: cdrecord-1.9-7 mkisofs-1.13-4 osinstall-1.2-1 pcre-8.39-1 AIX-rpm-6.1.7.0-5 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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HELP INSTALL XYMON-CLIENT ON AIX 6.1
by pabdoom2011＠hotmail.com 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Hi... Can you help me with information about the installation process of the client-xymon on AIX? Enviado desde Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>

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HELP INSTALLATION-CLIENT
by pabdoom2011＠hotmail.com 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Can I help with the list of software necessary to comply with all the dependencies and the order of installation-client for Solaris and Centos? Saludos cordiales, Pablo Padilla

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Chrome cookie deprecations
by rich＠corporationpop.co.uk 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hi all, finally getting round to posting about this... Chrome is going to be deprecating the meta tag for setting cookies... is there a fix in the works for this? Error console throws the following: [Deprecation] Setting cookies via `<meta http-equiv='Set-Cookie' ...>` is deprecated, and will stop working in M65, around March 2018. Consider switching to `document.cookie = ...`, or to `Set-Cookie` HTTP headers instead. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6170540112871424 for more details. This is showing for all pages on Xymon 4.3.28 testing through Chrome 64.0.3282.186 which I presume is caused by the following in the head <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=; path=/"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/">

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Adventures in compiling xymon-client for HP-UX
by glh.forums＠gmail.com 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

I recently had to implement Xymon clients on some HP-UX machines -- HP-UX 11.31 on Itanium2 (64 bit version). According to Mr. Google, there are no prebuilt binaries out there. It gets worse. HP-UX does not have GNU tools, and the C compiler that comes with it is intended for recompiling the kernel and nothing else. HP used to have their own payware ANSI C compiler, but I could not find it. The HP-UX software porting centre does not provide depot installation for gcc any more, but if you hunt around you can find an elderly release of gcc that can be installed with swinstall. One of the "intelligence tests" on that site is that it provides files that end in .gz but are not actually compressed! The thing that someone might want to look at is a small bug in the compilation process. The configure script figures out that HP-UX does not have the clock_gettime() function and says that this probably does not matter. But it does! in lib/timing.c there is some conditional compilation logic that will step around some code, but it gets executed for HP-UX. This causes the compilation to fail with messages: timing.c: In function 'gettimer': timing.c:44: error: 'CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in this function) timing.c:44: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once timing.c:44: error: for each function it appears in.) timing.c: In function 'getntimer': timing.c:66: error: 'CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in this function) gmake[1]: *** [<builtin>: timing.o] Error 1 gmake: *** [build/Makefile.rules:89: lib-client] Error 2 The workaround is to edit lib/timing.c and comment out all of the code that the conditional logic would have skipped. There might not be anyone else on the planet who cares about this, but I thought I would document this for historical purposes... Greg Hubbard

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ifstat graph
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

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Linux load question
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

I have a linux server which is alerting on a high load but the load average is lower than my threshold. My question, why is it going red? Analysis.cfg HOST=serverA LOAD 89.0 90.0 Here are the top results - I expect that the alert should be triggered by the load average of 21.75 which is far lower than the thresholds. top - 07:58:55 up 17 days, 19:31, 20 users, load average: 21.75, 25.16, 25.32 ... But, there is a single process using a ton of cpu on one of the multiple cores - is this factoring into the alert? If so, why is it not documented? PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 121978 user1+ 20 0 46.839g 0.040t 50388 S 2774 17.2 18504:34 python Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: _____________________________________________________________________ John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

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HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Thanks for the info. I will try the analysis.cfg options you suggested. The problem is that the how-to for the PS client says that it works a certain way, but it doesn't seem to work that way. There's no mention of it being beta or non-functional. Thanks, Kris Springer -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> To: Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com>, John Palys <johnpalys at schoolpathways.com>, "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 9:24 PM Subject: RE: [Xymon] HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS The PowerShell client only works in “Central” mode. So to monitor services and processes you need to add the relevant entries into your analysis.cfg file on your server. Something like: HOST=server01 SVC testservice status=started startup=automatic PROC test.exe 1 DISK * 95 98 DISK F IGNORE For Disks it should pickup the disks automatically and use the values at the bottom of your analysis.cfg file or you can set your own values like above The PowerShell client is much better than BBWin, it’s actively maintained and has a whole bunch of extra functionality and it’s written in PowerShell. On top of that it can replicate mostly everything BBwin already did with the exception of local mode. It even has its own update mechanism built into it and does hash checking on external scripts. It really is worth switching to. For slimmode, I don’t actually use it but I do recall seeing something on this list about a bug in the current implementation, I’m not sure if that has been patched yet. You might be misunderstanding what slimmode does, it basically just stops certain sections of information being sent to the server so you can send smaller messages that contain less data. I assume this is for performance / security reasons. This is the information you will see in the clientlog column for the host in xymon. Or in you xymon powershell directory in the xymon-lastcollect.txt if you have that turned on. It is also the data that the server parses for each test so if you omit a bunch of services using slimmode then you won’t be able to report on their status. Regards, Brandon Dale From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kris Springer Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2018 3:58 PM To: John Palys <johnpalys at schoolpathways.com>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] HELP- INSTALL CLIENT XYMON ON WINDOWS Yes, I have been successfully using BBwin for many years with no trouble. I just thought I'd try out the Powershell client, but so far the customizations are not working. Anyone have a functioning sample config to specify Services and Processes? Kris Springer On 03/07/2018 03:33 PM, John Palys wrote: I also endorse bbwin. I used it a lot with original Big Brother and it works well. Simple to install, setup and maintain. See this page http://www.squidworks.net/2012/04/new-bbwin-gui-version-2-release-for-bbwin… They made a bbwin gui onfig file which helps in setup and maintenance of bbwin. http://www.squidworks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BBWin_Gui-2.2.zip On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com<mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>> wrote: I've also tried adding the slimmode option into the server's client-local.cfg, but that doesn't do anything either. How do you test for specific Services and Processes with the Powershell client. Following the instructions doesn't seem to work. Kris Springer On 03/06/2018 07:41 PM, Galen Johnson wrote: The powershell client is available at https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/. Unlike bbwin, it is actively maintained. =G= On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org<mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> wrote: On 03/06/2018 12:43 PM, Pablo Padilla wrote: Hi.. can xymon-client be installed on windows server to monitor Drive Spaces??? Saludos cordiales, Pablo _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon Pablo There is a windows client called BBwin: http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ and bbwingui, also on sourceforge, for configuring bbwin. I think there is also a client written in powershell. powershell irratates me so I don't use it _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon -- John Palys Systems Administrator School Pathways, Inc. 866-200-6936 #2010 Office

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