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alerts.cfg DURATION rule being ignored
by clovis＠ipost.com 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

Hello, Our Xymon server is monitoring about a hundred hosts and has been doing so nicely for years.? However DURATION rule is being ignored. I have several lines like this in alerts.cfg: SCRIPT <script location> <email address> SERVICE=replication DURATION>30m REPEAT=30d COLOR=red,purple Replication is a custom check. But the alert (scripted email) is being sent as soon as the check goes red, not 30 minutes later. Any suggestions as to why this could be? Using Xymon 4.3.30.

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Xymon 4.3.30 Released
by earle＠isolar.DynDNS.ORG 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

On 31 Jul 2020, at 7:27, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote: >> Japheth, >> >> Will 4.3.31 be out soon or will it jump to 4.4? > > I'm looking at the XSS report and sorting through a variety of the > patches since this release now. > > There will be a 4.3.31 release with this as well as other updates, as > well as a 4.4 pre-release. Due to there being a longish gap, a > maintenance release is appropriate. We haven't yet gotten a formal 4.3.30 Terabithia RPM release for Fedora 31 (it's still in "testing") much less Fedora 32 (not even one in "testing"). Could you get those out to production before moving on to doing a 4.3.31? - Greg

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Multiple xymon clients behind same IP
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

On 7/29/2020 9:19 AM, vadud3 at gmail.com wrote: > I have multiple xymon clients (multiple devices at home) and the xymon > server is at cloud. > > The outgoing IP is same for all the xymon clients. How do I monitor them? Damien's suggestion is one way. And I do not think it's a bad way. What I will generally do for hosts that cannot be accessed externally is use 0.0.0.0 as the IP address in hosts.cfg. I then add "noconn" and maybe "CLIENT:host.example.com" to the config line. The noconn is because hosts behind NAT normally can't be pinged directly, and noconn ensures that xymon will not try to ping it and mark the host down when the ping fails. If there are holes in the firewall to allow outside access, then a real IP address and server-side tests like "ssh" MIGHT be appropriate, but in most cases for firewalled hosts, those tests are not added. The CLIENT section allows things to work if the xymon client reports something different as its hostname than what you have in hosts.cfg, which could happen in the wild. I do sometimes have "http" tests on these host lines, because http tests are usually done with DNS lookups and don't try to use the 0.0.0.0 address. Thanks, Shawn

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