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xymon-client: Exclude directory from being checked by client.
by Jean-Pierre.Pitout＠mtn.com 14 May '18

14 May '18

Thanks Norbet, I'll take a look at that file and see what I can come up with. ________________________________________________ Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] Senior Linux Engineer (RHCA) IS Client Server Line-Of-Business Linux ISClientServerLine-of-Business_Linux.ZA at mtn.com ________________________________ From: Norbert Kriegenburg <norbert.kriegenburg at de.ibm.com> Sent: 14 May 2018 15:11 To: Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] Cc: Jeremy Ruffer; xymon; Xymon Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-client: Exclude directory from being checked by client. As these df calls are located in the xymonclient-linux.sh (for your linux systems) on the client side, you have to add your FS to the EXCLUDES variable in this script, like EXCLUDES="$EXCLUDES -x additional_fs_type_to_ignore" But these excludes only work for FS types, not for mount points. Of course you can throw away all the messages (simply add 2>/dev/null after the df calls), but if there is a stale mount or other reason that causes df to hang, this will not help. Norbert [Inactive hide details for "Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ]" ---14/05/2018 14:52:24---Hi Jeremy, thank you for your resp]"Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ]" ---14/05/2018 14:52:24---Hi Jeremy, thank you for your response! We're running RHEL and the xymon-client is using df for disk From: "Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ]" <Jean-Pierre.Pitout at mtn.com> To: Jeremy Ruffer <jeremy.ruffer at gmail.com> Cc: xymon <xymon at xymon.com> Date: 14/05/2018 14:52 Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-client: Exclude directory from being checked by client. Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> ________________________________ Hi Jeremy, thank you for your response! We're running RHEL and the xymon-client is using df for disk checks. Recently Docker was installed and configured to use specific mount point for devicemapper (/app2/docker/devicemapper). Not sure if this is standard as it was configured by the developers. Some issue is causing the client to hang when checking disk utilisation on this mount point. The issue could be with df itself but I thought excluding it from the check would be the simplest option. Regards, ________________________________________________ Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] Senior Linux Engineer (RHCA) IS Client Server Line-Of-Business Linux ISClientServerLine-of-Business_Linux.ZA at mtn.com ________________________________ From: Jeremy Ruffer <jeremy.ruffer at gmail.com> Sent: 14 May 2018 14:34 To: Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ] Cc: xymon Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-client: Exclude directory from being checked by client. What is the platform and why does checking it cause a problem? If you are Linux or Unix it may help to add a switch to the df command. Regards Jeremt On Mon, 14 May 2018 13:27 Jean-Pierre Pitout [ MTN South Africa ], <Jean-Pierre.Pitout at mtn.com<mailto:Jean-Pierre.Pitout at mtn.com>> wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone know how I can exclude a directory from being checked by xymon-client for disk checks? This has to be done client side because it appears to be breaking the client itself. Configuring the server to ignore the check won't prevent the client from trying to run checks on this directory. Regards, 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. 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Force logfetch to only process complete lines?
by larry＠fni-stl.com 14 May '18

14 May '18

RHEL 6.9 and RHEL 7.4 Xymon v4.3.28 This may be documented somewhere and I'm just not able to find it. But is there a way to force logfetch to only scan complete lines and discard any partials it might retrieve based on the MAXCHECK setting? I've been getting quite a few alerts on highly active systems where the offending line would normally be excluded due to the first part of a search that is missing. A simple example, I want to ignore the alert triggers for /var/log/messages where the system name is test-system and :\sheader\ssubject: is also in the line. Since test-system comes right after the date/time stamp, that causes the ignore check to not work if test-system is not retrieved by logfetch. analysis.cfg # Red alert on CRITICAL or ERROR or SERIOUS (with exceptions) LOG %.* %(?-i)CRITICAL|ERROR|SERIOUS COLOR=red IGNORE=%(?-i)test-system.*:\sheader\ssubject: I've tried adjusting the MAXCHECK setting but it didn't make a difference one way or the other. client-local.cfg log:/var/log/messages:10240 # 10KB default log:/var/log/messages:1024000 # 1MB Thanks. ========================================================= Larry D. Bonham Financial Network Inc. 10401-F Baur Olivette, MO 63132 (314) 400-9412 voice (314) 997-5647 fax ========================================================= ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic mail message is intended exclusively for recipient to which it is addressed. The contents of this message and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, print, storage, copy, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by replying to the message's sender and delete all copies of this message and its attachments without disclosing the contents to anyone, or using the contents for any purpose.

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Xymond Multi-source statuses
by rich＠corporationpop.co.uk 14 May '18

14 May '18

Hi all, Another one of those things I keep meaning to ask but keep on forgetting... I'm seeing under the xymond column the following: Multi-source statuses xymon.url.com:cpu reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:disk reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:files reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:inode reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:memory reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:msgs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:ports reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:procs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 xymon.url.com:uptime reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227 Looking through the archive it makes sense, Xymon is receiving data from two sources, which I guess it is, however the two IPs are localhost and the server IP address. I'm guessing this is likely to do with how the things are setup on the server rather than Xymon itself (eg in /etc/hosts)? Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this? I'm running Xymon 4.3.28 Cheers

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alert on a TREND graph
by nskyrca＠syr.edu 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hello, I have Xymon configured to show the Apache TRENDS graphs. I've been asked to alert for the "Apache workers" if it reaches a certain threshold. Is this possible? Thanks, Nicole Nicole Beck Information Technology Analyst Information Technolgy Services - Core Infrustructure Services - Unix 315.506.9744 nskyrca at syr.edu<mailto:nskyrca at syr.edu> 215 Machinery Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 syracuse.edu Syracuse University

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Administratrivia: Privacy policy for the mailing list
by henrik＠hswn.dk 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hi, as you may have heard, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25th. Since the Xymon mailing list stores your e-mail address (and optionally your name), I need to post a privacy policy for the mailing list. So here it is: https://www.xymon.com/docs/legal/privacy.html Regards, Henrik

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(Xymon newbie) -- how to schedule a Xymon monitoring?
by jeremy＠laidman.org 09 May '18

09 May '18

On 10 May 2018 at 07:48, Kern Doe via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > > Hello Xymon gurus, > > I have a test database script, run by userID db2inst1 on an hourly basis > by a cron, producing an output text file containing a flag (a word) > red/green, for example: > > cat /tmp/chkpublicprivs.out > centos_hp0.NoPublic red db Security WARNING <br> Wed May 9 17:16:33 EDT > 2018: PUBLIC access found in abcd database. > > Xymon picks this up when I manually kick this off this command: > /home/xymon/server/bin/bb 172.20.10.5 "status `cat > /tmp/chkpublicprivs.out`" > > When my chkpublicprivs script runs again producing GREEN, it doesn't look > like Xymon knows about this. How do we schedule Xymon to run? What > parameter that determines that? I know I can put the above Xymon command in > a cron but I suspect Xymon has its own scheduling mechanism. > > Thank you in advance!! > > Kern -- > Kern, you are correct. Xymon has a scheduler process called xymonlaunch. On a Xymon server, the configuration file that defines Xymon's scheduled tasks is tasks.cfg. On a Xymon client, the configuration file is called clientlaunch.cfg. The format of clientlaunch.cfg and tasks.cfg is the same. Run "man tasks.cfg" on your Xymon server to read about the format of the file, or view it online here: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/tasks.cfg.5.html Cheers Jeremy

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(Xymon newbie) -- how to schedule a Xymon monitoring?
by kern_doe＠yahoo.com 09 May '18

09 May '18

Hello Xymon gurus, I have a test database script, run by userID db2inst1 on an hourly basis by a cron, producing an output text file containing a flag (a word) red/green, for example: cat /tmp/chkpublicprivs.out centos_hp0.NoPublic red db Security WARNING <br> Wed May 9 17:16:33 EDT 2018: PUBLIC access found in abcd database. Xymon picks this up when I manually kick this off this command: /home/xymon/server/bin/bb 172.20.10.5 "status `cat /tmp/chkpublicprivs.out`" When my chkpublicprivs script runs again producing GREEN, it doesn't look like Xymon knows about this. How do we schedule Xymon to run? What parameter that determines that? I know I can put the above Xymon command in a cron but I suspect Xymon has its own scheduling mechanism. Thank you in advance!! Kern -- Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons.

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PS client on Win Server 2008 R2 - no who or user data
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 May '18

08 May '18

I have multiple Win Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 boxes that I recently upgraded from BBwin to the PSclient. All is well except that there's no [who] or [users] data coming in. It's not purple, it's just blank. This seems to only be a problem with Win Server 2008 boxes, all other versions of Windows are ok. Anyone else experience this? Is there a solution? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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inconsistent status after PS client install
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 May '18

08 May '18

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http test don't care about the authentication
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 04 May '18

04 May '18

I'm helping some guys bringing up a new xymon server and have a few issues. 4.3.28 One that I don't get is an http test. The server in question requires a login on the first page (ldap). All they care is that the web page is up, they are not looking to login. The old server, a prehistoric 4.x.1x something still hobbit, doesn't care, it just sends all good. Is there a way to have 4.3.28 just say the server is up but not try to login? Thanks, Paul. Paul Root Lead Engineer 390 Commerce Dr Woodbury, Mn 55125 651-312-5207 paul.root at centurylink.com This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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