January 2023 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

charting xymonnet Run Time for additional instances
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 20 Jan '23

20 Jan '23

In our installation of Xymon, I've recently needed to spin up additional xymonnet "tasks". These are processes dedicated to specific "networks" (as specified with the NET:location tag). I am unable to figure out how to chart the runtime of these new processes. I have each reporting into the display servers under their own column. The pages those bubbles link to have all of the appropriate stats on them, but they are missing the nice RRD chart that is seen on the native xymonnet page. I've been thrashing about, but I can't hit on the magic recipe. Can someone help me out? What do I need to do to get Xymon to build an RRD, and display the resulting graph, for my specifically-named xymonnet processes? -- -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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How to test remote ports
by zechner＠vrvis.at 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Hi, I've been trying to establish a remote port check, but cannot get it to work. After reading the man pages and the corresponding topics on the mailing list, I've configured a test like this: PORT REMOTE=1.2.3.4:80 but the remote port always comes back as down, even though it is up. Am I doing something wrong? Local port checks all work perfectly, only the remote ones do not. Am I doing something wrong here? Context: I am using local mode on all clients, so I'm putting all my checks in /etc/xymon/localclient.cfg, but this should not effect this check, right? Thanks in advance! Best regards Christoph Zechner

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How to test remote ports
by henrik＠hswn.dk 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Den 19.01.2023 kl. 08.13 skrev Christoph Zechner: >> why are you trying to do it with a client-side test? > > Because I thought this was the idea behind the remote port check, but > I now see my error here. > >> You should just add an http test to the configuration and run it as a >> network test. In hosts.cfg: >> >> 1.2.3.4 myhost? # http://1.2.3.4/ > > This does not test for the port though. The hosts.cfg entry above _does_ test port 80 by establishing a connection to the port, sending an http request and verifying the response. > Port 80 was just an example for a random port, if I wanted to check > port 3389 on a remote Windows machine, how would I do that? The protocols.cfg file lists the various network protocols that Xymon knows about (and you can add your own, if you need any). Port 3389 is the RDP port, which is one of the protocols Xymon knows. So to test for that, use 1.2.3.4 myhost # rdp Add as many network tests as you like, eg. if you want to test host 1.2.3.4 for both http and RDP: 1.2.3.4 myhost # http://1.2.3.4/ rdp Regards, Henrik

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Issue with apt test & Ubuntu
by damien＠makelofine.org 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Hi, If you are running Xymon client 'apt' test on an Ubuntu (maybe others) system, you may face unexpected issue related to phased packages updates. I've reported the issue to Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hobbit-plugins/+bug/2003062 The fix is available in the bug report and is really easy to implement and validate. Regards, Damien

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Edges of the DNS test
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

The basic "dns" test in Xymon (currently running 4.3.30-1.el7.terabithia) is frustrating me. As far as I can tell, there is no way to: + change the test-name (i.e. it is always "dns") + force tcp or udp connections Has anyone found a way around these limitations? -- -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska

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https://xymon.com/
by stef.coene＠docum.org 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Hi, I just noticed that the Xymon website can use some cleanup in the menu's. There is a link to the old BBWin client but not to the new Powershell client. And the 'Where is Hobbit' points to a non existing link and redirets https://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/ which does not exist. Stef

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Decommissioned systems showing in ghosts
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hi all I decommissioned (i.e. physically removed) a bunch of Cisco switches some time ago but I see that they are still showing in the ghost report. I've checked hosts.cfg and devmon's hosts db but can't find them. Any ideas on how to track down why they're still showing up? Thanks

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