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Windows PowerShell Client
by john＠executech.com 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

I have a team of 100 users that monitor 1 to 50 Windows servers in completely different environments and I don't like having to create a separate threshold for each server or group or tweaking them individually. It has become unmanageable. Plus, when the analysis.cfg was formatted incorrectly it caused issues. My goal is to let users manage their own servers in their own environment while still having a central dashboard for all servers. We aren't in a position to have a separate xymon server in every environment. Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.symantec.com)

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Windows PowerShell Client
by john＠executech.com 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

I think the goal is to configure thresholds from the client like we do with bbwin, not necessarily the alerts. If it's not currently an option, is anyone working on making it possible? -----Original Message----- From: Beck, Zak [zak.beck at accenture.com] Received: Friday, 10 Nov 2017, 2:30AM To: KC Kuhns [kc.kuhns at executech.com] xymon at xymon.com [xymon at xymon.com] Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows PowerShell Client Hi You cannot manage alerts locally from the Powershell client, it is simply not supported. Sorry! Zak From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of KC Kuhns Sent: 09 November 2017 15:11 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [External] [Xymon] Windows PowerShell Client I’m trying to configure alerts to be managed locally on the Windows PowerShell clients instead of controlling them from the Xymon server. I want to have the clients manage their own thresholds in this situation. I have my xymonclient_config.xml set to use local settings and reference a localclient.cfg file that has all the values in it. Even with it setup this way, it isn’t reporting on the correct thresholds. I can have my CPU at 101 and still receive alerts when it hits 6%. Am I missing something since the localclient.cfg comes defined with Linux values? I.e. 6.5 9.5 instead of 65% 95%? I know it’s designed to managed all from Xymon but I’d like the option to manage locally on some machines. Xymonclient_config.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> -<XymonSettings> <servers>xymon.example.com</servers> <clientlogfile>c:\Xymon\xymonclient.log</clientlogfile> <clientconfigfile>c:\xymon\localclient.cfg</clientconfigfile> <clientname>Server.Name</clientname> <clientfqdn>0</clientfqdn> <clientlower>0</clientlower> <clientremotecfgexec>0</clientremotecfgexec> </XymonSettings> Localclient.cfg DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 30 LOAD 95.0 100.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 Thanks for the help! This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.symantec.com)

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Windows PowerShell Client
by kc.kuhns＠executech.com 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

I'm trying to configure alerts to be managed locally on the Windows PowerShell clients instead of controlling them from the Xymon server. I want to have the clients manage their own thresholds in this situation. I have my xymonclient_config.xml set to use local settings and reference a localclient.cfg file that has all the values in it. Even with it setup this way, it isn't reporting on the correct thresholds. I can have my CPU at 101 and still receive alerts when it hits 6%. Am I missing something since the localclient.cfg comes defined with Linux values? I.e. 6.5 9.5 instead of 65% 95%? I know it's designed to managed all from Xymon but I'd like the option to manage locally on some machines. Xymonclient_config.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> -<XymonSettings> <servers>xymon.example.com</servers> <clientlogfile>c:\Xymon\xymonclient.log</clientlogfile> <clientconfigfile>c:\xymon\localclient.cfg</clientconfigfile> <clientname>Server.Name</clientname> <clientfqdn>0</clientfqdn> <clientlower>0</clientlower> <clientremotecfgexec>0</clientremotecfgexec> </XymonSettings> Localclient.cfg DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 30 LOAD 95.0 100.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 Thanks for the help!

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xymonnet not working for basic authentication with # in password
by Max.Xu＠servicenow.com 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

I am have something like httpstatus;https://admin_name:passwdXY#Z at abc.com/abc;200 in hosts.cfg. Xymonnet fails to parse it. Log says: ------------------------------------------------------ URL : https://admin_name:443/#Z at abc.com/abc HTTP status : 0 Looking at code(version 4.3.24), ‘#' causes NULL auth, which will cause user name part be use as host name. Can this be confirmed? Thanks, -Max

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Big RRD files causing problems
by David.Mills＠hhsc.state.tx.us 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Hi! Since upgrading to a new Xymon ( 4.3.28-1.el6.terabithia<http://xymon.sourceforge.net/> / Linux from 4.3.3 on Solaris ) , my RRD file storage consumption is *much* greater than on the old server. It's gotten so I have to manually groom the RRD files every 48 hours or they overflow the file system. Here are some stats: NOTE: Same set of hosts with same tests on both the old server (4.3.3 / Solaris) and the Terabithia distro for RHEL 6: Picking out the current biggest offender (the list varies but tracks pretty much along the lines of the largest hosts with the most data to send): NEW Server OLD Server Total space consumed for .../rrd 90GB 14GB # of files beneath .../rrd/pwow706/ 1,916 25,815 Avg file size (eyeballing it) 423K 38K Any ideas? Where can I read up on what RRD files Xymon puts into the RRD directory? Thx! ;-) David Mills ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ System Administrator Northrop Grumman Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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possible to test against "who"?
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Is anyone doing any tests against the "who" test? I would possibly like to alert if root (linux) or administrator (windows) is logged into a server. I have never seen this done before nor do I find anything in the docs for analysis.cfg. With today's heightened security awareness this may be something others would be interested in also. Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: _____________________________________________________________________ John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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Http Status Column and Https
by rich＠corporationpop.co.uk 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi all, Have finally got around to upgrading our Xymon installation, mostly all good (still some plugins and extensions to add in), however I'm seeing a strange issue where the http test is returning a HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request for all sites using https. This used to work in our previous (admittedly VERY out-of date) instance. Any ideas? Hosts.cfg looks something like this for the affected rows: 1.2.3.4 someurl.com # https://someurl.com COMMENT:somecomment While I'm at it, I can't recall how to get the ssl certificate test to work and show the expiry dates, is this related? Cheers, Rich

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XYmon doing Cricket's job
by scarville＠lereta.com 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

I have about a dozen interfaces I want to monitor total traffic on, Right now I use Cricket for this but that server is running CentOS 5 and I am shutting it down as soon as possible. Can XYmon take over this task or should I just move Cricket over?

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Xymonfetch, msgcache and personal scripts
by pierre.lapha＠gmail.com 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hello all, I managed to make the xymonfetch work through a ssh tunnel and the default tests are now visible in the xymon page (thanks to Thomas and John). But I have personal scripts that I used to launch via clientlaunch.cfg and I do not know how to tell the script to write data locally (in msgcache) instead of sending the datas to the xymon server. Thank you again for your help. Pierre

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Top output not current for host app129015.sjc5
by mike.smith＠servicenow.com 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi, Attempting to view TOP output by going to CPU-->Service History-->(Full HTML log) Link: https://monitor01.iad9.service-now.com/xymon-cgi/history.sh?HISTFILE=app129… This shows no data since October 10 and yet there was Datacenter alert for high CPU yesterday: Alert63284041<https://datacenter.service-now.com/em_alert.do?sys_id=05add5e7dbc28b402b157…> Here is another link shows crazy high CPU for an app node on this host yesterday: https://stats.servicenow.net/instance_view?impala=true&selection=metlifepro… I’ve not checked other application nodes, but was curious what’s up? Thanks, Mike

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