June 2018 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

change custom column icon
by frankk74＠gmail.com 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hi, Can you make your icons available to/for this list? Maybe on the on the xymonton site? Thanks, Frank https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php Sent from my generic iPad

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change custom column icon
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

I've got a custom column that always shows green. I'd like to make that column show the 'info' icon instead. Ideas? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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OpenVMS Client
by neilsimmonds1808＠gmail.com 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi all, I can find some suggestion that there is an OpenVMS Big Brother client that is compatible with Xymon but can't find the actual client anywhere. Can anyone confirm if there is a client that will work with OpenVMS 8.4 1H1 and does anyone have a copy of it? Regards, Neil.

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RRD graph not working for only one test
by rich＠corporationpop.co.uk 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hi all, weird one... Have been playing about with the following nginx monitor https://github.com/ZeWaren/xymon-nginx and I can't get the graphs to work at all. The test runs fine (as far as I can tell, i have modified the script to output the data for the graph and that all looks fine), it sends it's data etc and I can see the .rrd files created. However Xymon doesn't want to display them at all. I simply end up with alt text and the magnifying glass. Clicking the magnifying glass results in the "Cannot access RRD directory" error. I have performed an rrdtool dump on the offending graph and compared it with other .rrd files, doesn't look to be any issue. Permissions are all the same across all the data/rrd/host etc. Has anyone else had this issue or similar? Any ideas? I'm running Xymon 4.3.28 Cheers, Rich

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trigger linux clients to download scripts from server
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

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Solved: EXTIME/TIME syntax
by losburn＠thepinnaclegroup.com 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Thought I would mention solution here in case it saves some other folks a lot of head scratching. It turns out that the analysis.cfg file (and probably the alarm.cfg as well) seem to be whitespace-sensitive. That is to say, if your "LOAD" command doesn't begin at position 1 on the line, it may be interpreted as a combination condition with the line above. (of course, one may wish to combine several metrics for a single host, using the indented notation, but that is an intended whitespace) From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Lynn Osburn Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 9:12 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] EXTIME/TIME syntax Attempting to prevent "false" cpu alarms during overnight processing, I have included a line in analysis.cfg thus: LOAD 4.0 6.0 HOST=blueteam EXTIME=W:2200:0400 However, alarms continue to be generated during the "excluded" hours. Has anyone else had any difficulty with either TIME or EXTIME entries? Thanks!

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force specific hosts test to always green
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

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custom scripts for windows servers
by chrisp＠lightstoneauto.co.za 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hi Our dev decided to create a groovy script since the tests it needs to do is complex. He created a small test script which I copied to the ext folder: test.groovy def file1 = new File('C:/Program Files (x86)/BBWin/tmp/test.txt') file1.write 'Test message' Added to externals block: <externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <load value="groovy test.groovy" timer="1m" />  </externals> I Also tried the full path to test.groovy. Restarted the client, I even set the log on as from Local system to Administrator. The file "test.txt" is not created. There's no errors logged in the BBWin.log How can I be sure BBwin is executing the script? Groovy is installed. "C:\groovy-2.4.15\bin\groovy" I am able to run the script from command prompt and the test.txt file is created. Kind regards From: Beck, Zak <zak.beck at accenture.com> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 12:37 PM To: Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstoneauto.co.za>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: custome scripts for windows servers Hi Chris BBWin or WinPSClient do not have a built in scripting language, they only support scripts that the OS already knows how to run. This will depend on what tools you have installed on your servers. By default, Windows servers will definitely run VBScript (VBS) and most newer versions (Windows Server 2008 onwards, Windows 7 onwards) will run Powershell. There are a number of script samples in BBWin in the externals folder and for WinPSClient, the documentation is fairly complete in this area. Both BBWin and WinPSClient can return data from any script if that script writes a text file to the tmp folder (which is a subfolder of BBWin or WinPSClient). Below is a Powershell example of testing DNS lookup for google.com - this is not necessarily the best way to test DNS, it is provided as a simple example of an external script. If this were saved as "google-dns.ps1", and a SHA1 hash of the file generated, it can be used with the WinPSClient by adding a line like this to client-local.cfg - you do not need to replace the {script} with anything, the client will do that: external:everyscan:sync:http://<xymon server>/PS_Updates/google-dns.ps1|SHA1|<sha1 value>|powershell.exe|-executionpolicy remotesigned -noprofile -file "{script}" Cheers Zak param( [string] $TestName = 'googledns' ) $scriptdir = split-path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition $datadir = join-path $scriptdir '..\tmp' -Resolve $groupColour = 'green' try { $results = [System.Net.DNS]::GetHostAddresses('www.google.com') } catch { $groupColour = 'red' $message = "Error performing DNS query: $_" } if ($groupColour -eq 'green') { $ips = $results | foreach { $_.IPAddressToString } $message = "Result of DNS query:`r`n" $message += ($ips -join "`r`n") } $timeFormatted = Get-Date -Format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' $output = ` @" $($groupColour)+10m $TestName as at $timeFormatted (updated approx every 5 minutes) DNS query for www.google.com<http://www.google.com> $message <br><p>Information from $($Env:computername)</p> "@ $dataFile = Join-Path $datadir $TestName $output | Set-Content $datafile From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Chris Pretorius Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018 10:32 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [External] [Xymon] custome scripts for windows servers Good day all Can someone please send links to example custom scripts for windows server. We are mostly a Linux shop but have a few Windows servers. They are monitored on xymon and it is currently a mix of BBwin and winpsclients. My google skills has let me down as I could not find examples except for bash script examples.. Does BBwin or winpsclient support groovy script or can I only use VBscript? 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Syntax for regular expression in client-local.cfg
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

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EXTIME/TIME syntax
by losburn＠thepinnaclegroup.com 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Attempting to prevent "false" cpu alarms during overnight processing, I have included a line in analysis.cfg thus: LOAD 4.0 6.0 HOST=blueteam EXTIME=W:2200:0400 However, alarms continue to be generated during the "excluded" hours. Has anyone else had any difficulty with either TIME or EXTIME entries? Thanks!

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