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Menu list is all text
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Ive also checked - xymonmenu.cfg seems to be correct - what I have in place seems to be the same size as the pre "make install" file that is in my build directory, so copying it from elsewhere hasn't changed anything (it won;t have been copied from 4.2.3 I have realised now cos it doesn't exist as that name in 4.2.3 and isn't one of the rename files in the upgrade guide upgrade-to-430.txt cheers ian On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 10:15:50 GMT, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: Ive recently installed 4.3.28. Ive copied over various files from the existing 4.2.3 I now notice that the main view and any sub pages all have what I would expect from the top level menu - Views/Reports/Administration/Help. those menus all drop down as normal displaying sub categories below them But if/when i then open a particular alert (any individual server's alert eg conn) I then get the top menu displayed all in text, with all the options visible also, but no format. So what I see is Views: Main view | All non-green view | Critical systems Reports: Event log Report | Top Changes | Availability Report | Snapshot Report | Config Report | Config Report (Critical) | Metrics Report | Ghost Clients | Notification Report Acknowledgements Administration: Find host | Acknowledge alert | Enable/disable | Edit critical systems Help: About Xymon | Installing Xymon | Configuring Monitoring | Configuring Alerts | Critical systems | Known problems | Tips and Tricks | Custom graphs | Xymon man-pages Anybody know how I get that back to the normal menu? Im guessing its one of the files Ive copied from the "old" setup to the "new" ? (ocntents of etc basically I suspect) didds_______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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suppressing msgs alert
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Scrap that! NOCOLUMNS:msgs does work! DOH! ian On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 10:46:01 GMT, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: How do I suppress a msgs alert status for a particular client in 4.3.28? Ive tried #nomsgs in the hosts.cfg entry. I've also tried NOCOLUMNS:msgs But both of them make no difference - the msgs alert is still showing . I want nothing there at all :-) cheers ian _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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suppressing msgs alert
by didds3＠yahoo.co.uk 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

How do I suppress a msgs alert status for a particular client in 4.3.28? Ive tried #nomsgs in the hosts.cfg entry. I've also tried NOCOLUMNS:msgs But both of them make no difference - the msgs alert is still showing . I want nothing there at all :-) cheers ian

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CLASS not working as expected
by steve＠opendium.com 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Under Xymon 4.3.25, I'm trying to use the class attribute to group hosts together by what monitoring and alerting they need. So for each host I have a hosts.cfg line like: 192.0.2.1 somehost.example.com # CLASS:Foo trace ssh Then in analysis.cfg I have: CLASS=Foo PROC this PROC that And alerts.cfg has: CLASS=Foo SCRIPT=blah However, the tests in analysis.cfg are not being applied. If I replace CLASS=Foo with HOST=somehost.example.com they work as expected. Also, CLASS=linux seems to work, which implies that the CLASS: directive in the hosts.cfg is being ignored. As far as I can tell, the messages on xymon's "client" channel don't contain the class name that was specified in hosts.cfg, so xymond_client is using the class that the client sent instead. Other channels, such as "status" do include the class name that was specified in hosts.cfg. Am I misunderstanding how the class is supposed to be used, or is this a bug? -- - Steve Hill Technical Director Opendium Limited http://www.opendium.com Direct contacts: Instant messager: xmpp:steve at opendium.com Email: steve at opendium.com Phone: sip:steve at opendium.com Sales / enquiries contacts: Email: sales at opendium.com Phone: +44-1792-824568 / sip:sales at opendium.com Support contacts: Email: support at opendium.com Phone: +44-1792-825748 / sip:support at opendium.com

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migrating xymon
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

I would think that if you didn't already have xymon on the new server, it'd just be a matter of making a tarball of the xymon home directory including data and configuration files, copying it to the new system, extracting it in the appropriate place, and making the manual changes. But with both already running, it's not an upgrade, it's a merge. And I don't know that there are really tools for that, _unless_ no client appears in both, in which case I'd think it would be straightforward enough. > On Dec 7, 2017, at 10:52, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > > > From: Ian Diddams <didds3 at yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: migrating xymon > Date: December 7, 2017 at 10:52:57 EST > To: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> > > > we have a xymon 4.2.3 server running on centos 5 (X1) > > I am charged with migrating that toi a new centos 7 server. > > So I now have a xymon 4.3.28 server running on centos 7 (X2) > > So... how do i go about copying WHAT from X1 to X2, and how do I get around the "gotcha" that is the changes from 4.2 to 4.3. I see that there is an "upgrade" script, and a list of manual stuff as alternative actions... but they both rather assume you are staying on the same server to upgrade only xymon ie everything is in situ. > > It is not viable to upgrade on the existing server as its a live production environment nor is it viable to install 4.2/3 on the new server due to time constraints. > > I short I need to know how to efficiently migrate the 4.2.3 files and data and history etc from X1 to X2. > > Apologies of this is a FAQ! > > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Testing alert scripts
by solitaryr＠gmail.com 10 Dec '17

10 Dec '17

What's the best way to test an alert script? It runs as expected when I run it by hand and feed it the same argument that it should get from Xymon but when called by Xymon, it doesn't seem to work properly and I'm not able to get any debug out in the logs. thanks =G=

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Custom Graphs with 60 seconds step in rrd file.
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

If the versions of your software don't have those options, I don't know. You may want to mention what version of Xymon you are running and what OS it's running on. My systems are running the latest Linux and Xymon from Terabithia with the requisite dependencies. Please keep the list included as there are others that may be able to help. =G= ________________________________ From: Jimmy Aulestia <jimmy.aulestia at hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 6:27 AM To: Galen Johnson Subject: Re: Custom Graphs with 60 seconds step in rrd file. EXTERNAL Hi, Excuse me, I wrote badly. I executed "rrdtool tune --step 60 test.rrd" The rrdtool does not have step option in my system: rrdtool tune filename [--heartbeat|-h ds-name:heartbeat] [--minimum|-i ds-name:min] [--maximum|-a ds-name:max] [--data-source-type|-d ds-name:DST] [--data-source-rename|-r old-name:new-name] [--deltapos scale-value] [--deltaneg scale-value] [--failure-threshold failure-threshold] [--window-length window-length] [--alpha adaption-parameter] [--beta adaption-parameter] [--gamma adaption-parameter] [--gamma-deviation adaption- parameter] [--smoothing-window fraction-of-season] [--smoothing-window-deviation fraction-of-season] [--aberrant-reset ds-name] I try something read in this xymon mail list: rrdtool tune --step 60 test.rrd ERROR: opening '--step': No such file or directory What is the procedure/commands to have 60 seconds interval in a rrd file? Thanks. ________________________________ De: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> Enviado: sábado, 02 de diciembre de 2017 0:35 Para: Jimmy Aulestia; xymon at xymon.com Asunto: Re: Custom Graphs with 60 seconds step in rrd file. I think your command is incorrect...I think that should be `rrdtool tune --step 60'. You can 'man rrdtune' to get all the options but IIRC you're on the right track. I can't lay my hands on the doc that mentions how to do what you're attempting. =G= ________________________________ From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Jimmy Aulestia <jimmy.aulestia at hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 12:07 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Custom Graphs with 60 seconds step in rrd file. EXTERNAL Hi, I need to change 300 seconds to 30 seconds interval in the rrd file. With this file i will have a custom graph and 60 seconds interval 1) I try with the rrddefiniions.cfg, but don' work the file is recreated with step = 300 [test] -s 60 RRA:AVERAGE:0.1:1:120 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:30:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:120:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:576 2) i try rrdtool rrdtune --step = 60 test.rrd but there is not this option in my rrdtune command Is there another procedure to change step to 60 seconds for a custom script/graph? Thanks,

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can you use patterns in EXHOST ?
by bakgat8＠hotmail.com 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

In analysis.cfg I have a CLASS=linux section that works fine. Fine for *our* hosts - the ones we built. Now I have to monitor a whole datacenter of other linux boxes that do not adhere to *our* standards. I added the new linux boxes into Xymon with longname ( host.yyy.xxx ) - my hosts are all shortname. Please tell me how I can exclude every linux host ending in yyy.xxx from CLASS=linux. It is not really practical to list 150 hosts by LONGname in EXHOST. Fingers crossed that this is possible! Bakkies

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HOST regex
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

I'm having trouble getting a regex going for hostnames in analysis.cfg I've got machines iadncmds1 through iadncmds6 and iadccmds1 through iadncmds9 and a couple other machines, all should/will have the same things to look at (ports, procs, etc). I've tried the following: HOST=%iad(ncm|ccm)ds(1-9),apancmdsd1,iadncmdsd2 HOST=%iad(ncm|ccm)ds\d,apancmdsd1,iadncmdsd2 HOST=%iad(ncm|ccm)ds.*,apancmdsd1,iadncmdsd2 HOST=%iad(ncm|ccm)ds(.*),apancmdsd1,iadncmdsd2 Any help here? Thanks, Paul. 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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script alerts args
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 02 Dec '17

02 Dec '17

Hey, Is there any way to have the SCRIPT type recipient take more than 2 args? I need to be able to feed the script itself more than just the recipient...although, it occurs to me, I might be able to cheat by feeding it that inside a string with a separator. Anyone ever tried to do this? thanks =G=

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