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"Talking to the Xymon Server =========================== The "xymonsend.ps1" script contains a PowerShell function "XymonSend" that lets you communicate with the Xymon server in the same way that the "bb" utility does on the Unix platforms. To use it, you must "source" this into your PowerShell commandline window: At the "PS" prompt, enter PS C:\xymon> . .\xymonsend.ps1 .." Here's an example of how I use it - pointless script to test if c:\windows exists and send the result to xymon (but you get the idea). It will display as the column “customtest” for the host “testserver01” $date=get-date -format "ddd MMM dd HH':'mm':'ss zzz yyyy" $DELAY="+10m" $xymonserver="xymon01" $machine="testserver01" $column="Customtest" #test logic if(Test-Path c:\windows){ $colour="green" $msg="&green ALL OK!" } else { $colour="red" $msg="&red world is ending" } #send to xymon server . c:\xymon\xymonsend.ps1 xymonsend "status$delay $machine.$column $colour $date $msg " "$xymonserver" Then schedule that in windows to run however often you want, you need to set the delay to a value longer than then the interval between each run of your schedule task to avoid it going purple. Regards, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:47 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Xymon PS Client Hi, We are using the Powershell client on new servers. But we are missing the option to execute external scripts. Has anyone an updated version or written a patch so you can execute external scripts with the Powershell cient? And if not, how do you execute external scripts when using the Powershell client? Stef _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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"Talking to the Xymon Server =========================== The "xymonsend.ps1" script contains a PowerShell function "XymonSend" that lets you communicate with the Xymon server in the same way that the "bb" utility does on the Unix platforms. To use it, you must "source" this into your PowerShell commandline window: At the "PS" prompt, enter PS C:\xymon> . .\xymonsend.ps1 .." Here's an example of how I use it - pointless script to test if c:\windows exists and send the result to xymon (but you get the idea). It will display as the column “customtest” for the host “testserver01” $date=get-date -format "ddd MMM dd HH':'mm':'ss zzz yyyy" $DELAY="+10m" $xymonserver="xymon01" $machine="testserver01" $column="Customtest" #test logic if(Test-Path c:\windows){ $colour="green" $msg="&green ALL OK!" } else { $colour="red" $msg="&red world is ending" } #send to xymon server . c:\xymon\xymonsend.ps1 xymonsend "status$delay $machine.$column $colour $date $msg " "$xymonserver" Then schedule that in windows to run however often you want, you need to set the delay to a value longer than then the interval between each run of your schedule task to avoid it going purple. Regards, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:47 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Xymon PS Client Hi, We are using the Powershell client on new servers. But we are missing the option to execute external scripts. Has anyone an updated version or written a patch so you can execute external scripts with the Powershell cient? And if not, how do you execute external scripts when using the Powershell client? Stef _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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NOCOLUMNS:column[,column] Used to drop certain of the status columns generated by the Xymon client. column is one of cpu, disk, files, memory, msgs, ports, procs. This setting stops these columns from being updated for the host. Note: If the columns already exist, you must use the xymon<http://uk-netmon/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html>(1) utility to drop them, or they will go purple. That suggests to me that your “NOCOLUMNS: telnet” is invalid – makes me wonder if it’s triggering that test as a result of that .default. entry. Be interested to see what you find. Regards, Carl From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Tres Finocchiaro Sent: 10 September 2014 13:37 To: Jeremy Laidman Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems @Jeremy, This is a bug in Samba. Refer: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1257186 This is entirely unrelated to Xymon. Terrific, thank you. If you don't have "telnet" listed for a host/device in hosts.cfg, or in the ".default." entry, then Xymon should not include it in its service checks. OK, this is where I'm struggling. We have a separate host group for our switches: group-sorted UFIRST Switches 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:telnet 192.168.0.5 SWITCH1 # ssh But originally had had: 192.168.0.5 SWITCH1 # telnet We followed the instructions for purging the history: xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop SWITCH1 telnet" But we still received alerts. red Wed Sep 3 09:26:38 2014 telnet NOT ok Service telnet on SWITCH1 is not OK : Service unavailable (Connection refused) Seconds: 0.00 So I tried filtering it in the alerts.cfg: HOST=%* SERVICE=%* MAIL tres at company.local<mailto:tres at company.local> EXSERVICE=telnet But now we aren't receiving any alerts at all. To verify it's not an email settings: mail -s "Test Email" tres at company.local<mailto:tres at company.local> < /dev/null Which succeeds. The only part I did not mention is that some of our hosts were renamed from lowercase to uppercase for aesthetics. Carl Inglis AMBCS Systems Administrator Rakon UK Limited Dowsett House, Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3RS, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1522 812630 | Fax: +44 1522 812664 | Mob: +44 7786 552915 Carl.Inglis at rakon.com | www.rakon.com [The Queens Awards for Enterprise 2012] [Rakon Logo] This message together with any attachments contains confidential information and may be subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you may not distribute it in any way, you must notify the sender immediately and delete any copies of the message along with its attachments. Rakon UK Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered Office: Antell House, Windsor Place, Harlow, Essex, England, CM20 2GQ Company Registration Number: 5128090. Please be aware that Rakon UK Limited may monitor email traffic data including the date, time, subject line, sender and recipients for the purposes of security and usage monitoring. Automated monitoring systems may also be applied to ascertain whether incoming/outgoing emails are likely to contain viruses, other destructive devices or inappropriate content.

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Tue Nov 4 15:21:34 2014 DTAMMI-DYN2.conn (XXX.XXX.25.228) EMAIL ADDRESS But the email it sends out says this: System unreachable for 4014 poll periods (1211916 seconds) &red XXX.XXX.19.160 is unreachable If I look at the Xymon webpage for it also has this address listed: XXX.XXX.19.160 is unreachable Any idea what might be causing this? Wes Neal

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David. -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 ________________________________ Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit www.ausport.gov.au<http://www.ausport.gov.au> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. ________________________________ Important - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617

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# PROC processname minimumcount maximumcount color [TRACK=id] [TEXT=displaytext] # The "ps" listing sent by the client will be scanned for how many # processes containing "processname" are running, and this is then # matched against the min/max settings defined here. If the running # count is outside the thresholds, the color of the "procs" status # changes to "color". # To check for a process that must NOT be running: Set minimum and # maximum to 0. # # "processname" can be a simple string, in which case this string must # show up in the "ps" listing as a command. The scanner will find # a ps-listing of e.g. "/usr/sbin/cron" if you only specify "processname" # as "cron". # "processname" can also be a Perl-compatiable regular expression, e.g. # "%java.*inst[0123]" can be used to find entries in the ps-listing for # "java -Xmx512m inst2" and "java -Xmx256 inst3". In that case, # "processname" must begin with "%" followed by the reg.expression. # If "processname" contains whitespace (blanks or TAB), you must enclose # the full string in double quotes - including the "%" if you use regular # expression matching. E.g. # PROC "%hobbitd_channel --channel=data.*hobbitd_rrd" 1 1 yellow # or # PROC "java -DCLASSPATH=/opt/java/lib" 2 5 Regards Vernon On 10 December 2014 at 08:39, John D. Alexander <JAlexander at feeneywireless.com<mailto:JAlexander at feeneywireless.com>> wrote: All, I’ve just installed Xyon onto CentOS 7 (x86_64). As usual, it’s working like a charm, except.. HOST= lines in analysis.cfg are not being evaluated. An example: HOST=server.mydomain.com<http://server.mydomain.com> PROC=mysql The server is defined in hosts.cfg and MariaDB is running on the server, but the procs remain clear saying “No process checks defined” Anyone got any insight? TIA. John Alexander Network Administrator John.Alexander at feeneywireless.com<mailto:John.Alexander at feeneywireless.com> Feeney Wireless, LLC - PO Box 2549, Eugene, Oregon 97402 (Free) 800-683-4818<tel:800-683-4818> (P) 541-685-9045<tel:541-685-9045> (F) 541-284-0030<tel:541-284-0030> www.feeneywireless.com<http://www.feeneywireless.com/> [FW_Acronym_email]<http://feeneywireless.com/> This email transmission is intended only for the addressee shown above. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this transmission or its contents by persons other than the addressee is strictly prohibited! If you have received this email transmission in error please notify us immediately. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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"There is a possible workaround if you define the CPULOOP=1 environment variable. The top command will be run one extra hidden loop for CPU data before standard output." You could define this in the appropriate cfg file on each client. J On 30/07/2014 6:25 AM, "Schwab, Jos" <Jos.Schwab at newellco.com<mailto:Jos.Schwab at newellco.com>> wrote: Mark, I failed to mention that in the man pages for TOP in CentOS 6.5, the –d command line option is called the interval which I had read somewhere is used to average statistics over. I hope that helps make it more clear and understandable. Jos Schwab Office – 815-233-8667 Mobile – 815-908-8587 SAP Technical Engineer 29 East Stephenson Street Freeport, Il. 61032 jos.schwab at newellco.com<mailto:jos.schwab at newellco.com> _____________________________________________ From: Schwab, Jos Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:19 AM To: 'Mark Felder' Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics) Sorry for the delay mark. I took off a couple of days. By interval I mean the time span that is used for the calculations in the cpu stats in the third line of TOP. The first display is calculated across the time since boot. The second 'interval' is the time calculated for those same cpu stats since the last iteration of the TOP display which is...well... it looks like 1 or 2 seconds. Thus that is what I mean by ‘interval’. Interval is whatever is the measured period of time over which any given TOP display’s cpu statistics are calculated. Xymon shows the first display of TOP which looks like the first screen shot below. Then from the same server virtually a few seconds later, I captured a second display of TOP. Notice the cpu statistics are very different even though the REAL condition of the server hadn’t changed at all. I would like to change xymon to display that second iteration of the TOP command. Let me know if you would like more clarification. Thanks! ☺ << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> Jos Schwab Office – 815-233-8667 Mobile – 815-908-8587 SAP Technical Engineer 29 East Stephenson Street Freeport, Il. 61032 jos.schwab at newellco.com<mailto:jos.schwab at newellco.com> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Felder [mailto:feld at feld.me] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:40 PM To: Schwab, Jos Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] CPU USAGE DISPLAY (CPU Statistics) On Jul 23, 2014, at 10:51, Schwab, Jos <Jos.Schwab at newellco.com<mailto:Jos.Schwab at newellco.com>> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am pretty new to the Linux world. Getting to the point quickly; xymon apparently uses the top display for the CPU display. When I see a CPU alert from xymon I’d like to see the current time interval’s CPU stats (The third line of top display - %us, %sy, %ni, etc) rather than the averages of those stats since the last reboot of the machine. This is an old ‘complaint’ in bugzilla which was closed in 2007 as ‘not a bug’. I couldn’t find any work-arounds or customizing tips out there to change the display in xymon. What changes can a person make to see the current time interval (any top display other than the first one) statistics for the cpu display in xymon? What about changes in the monitored OS? Any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks. > I think I know what you are asking for, but to be sure can you define what you mean by "current time interval" ? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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David. -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 ________________________________ Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit www.ausport.gov.au<http://www.ausport.gov.au> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. ________________________________ Important - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617

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David. -- David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks) Information and Communication Technology Services Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 ________________________________ Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit www.ausport.gov.au<http://www.ausport.gov.au> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. ________________________________ Important - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

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