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xymongen - add static text to a page?
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Is there a way to insert additional static text on a specific page generated by xymongen? I've found the the --pagetext-headings option for xymongen. This puts the page/sub-page description at the top of the page. That's not waht I need. What I'm after is kind of like the COMMENT option in hosts.cfg for hosts, but I want something for pages. > COMMENT:Host comment > Adds a small text after the hostname on the web page. The TITLE option in hosts.cfg also comes close, but agai, isn't right. -- 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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create a read only page
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Not sure how you'd do this from a Xymon config stand point. But you could setup your web server config (e.g. httpd.conf) to control access to various Xymon pages. A lot of the fine detail is produced with scripts in the xymon-cgi directory. You could require authentication for anything with those links, or simply anything that ISN'T your front page. Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com

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ftp test with ":q" parameter
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I concur with Brian. The most likely reason for the ":q" was an errant vi quit command. Looks like a ":s" would be valid. I'll refer you to the manpage for host.cfg ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html) under the heading "Simple Network Tests". My reading of that suggests that you would use that configuration directive to tell Xymon not to send any of the test data defined for the service from the protocols.cfg file. I'll also point out, that the :21 isn't necessary either. This would only be necessary if you wanted to test a service that would be running on a non-standard port. The example given is ssh. Ordinarily, that runs on port 22, but if you wanted to perform an SSH test listening on port 8022, you would use "ssh:8022". The default port number is defined in protocols.cfg ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/protocols.cfg.5.html) . If a port number for a defined service is not found, it will use what is defined in /etc/services, if one can be found. Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com

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Tag to make NCV engine ignore status text
by EDSchminke＠Hormel.com 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I believe the tags you're referring to are the ones listed in the xymond_rrd module manpage ( http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond_rrd.8.html#lbah ). Available for use is:    ...</-->  Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912 Phone: (507) 434-6817 edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com

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ftp test with ":q" parameter
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I found this in my hosts.cfg and can't figure out what I was trying do: 0.0.0.0 foo.bar.com # ftp:21:q I can't find any documentation for the :q parameter. I'm looking in source, but can't find now where those are parsed. What does/did this :q do? Anything? -- 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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Tag to make NCV engine ignore status text
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hey everyone, I know there's a tag that I can include in status messages so xymon ignores all the text between the tag and /tag, so that the values don't get picked up by the NCV engine. But I can't find that tag anywhere. Can anyone remember what it is? Thanks! Scot Kreienkamp | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate One La-Z-Boy Drive | Monroe, Michigan 48162 | * 734-384-6403 | | * 7349151444 | * Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com<mailto:%7BE-mail%7D> www<http://www.la-z-boy.com/>.la-z-boy.com<http://www.la-z-boy.com/> | facebook.<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>com<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>/<https://www.facebook.com/lazboy>lazboy<http://facebook.com/lazboy> | twitter.com/lazboy<https://twitter.com/lazboy> | youtube.com/<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy>lazboy<https://www.youtube.com/user/lazboy> [cid:lzbVertical_hres.jpg] This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you.

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receiving sms alerts...
by metron6＠gmail.com 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

hello all, i got a subscription to an SMS gateway, and the script they gave me is this: ------------ *<?php* *// Simple SMS send function* *function* sendSMS($key, $to, $message, $originator) { $URL = *"https:**//smscenter.gr/api/sms/send?key= <http://smscenter.gr/api/sms/send?key=>" . $key . "&to=" . $to;* $URL .= *"&text="* . urlencode( $message ) . '&from=' . urlencode( $originator ); $fp = fopen( $URL, 'r' ); return fread( $fp, 1024 ); } *// Example of use* $response = sendSMS( 'myapikey', 'recipientnumber', 'My test message', 'from' ); echo $response; *?>* *-------* *how could i implement it inside alerts.cfg in order to get sms alerts ?* -- regards, Metron 6 (six) Metron6 at gmail.com

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ddns hosts and flapping status...
by metron6＠gmail.com 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

hello all, i'm trying to monitor some ddns hosts, but i get some strange results.. in hosts.cfg i have subpage Metron6-Gateways Metron 6 Gateways title Metron 6 Gateways 0.0.0.0 metron6-vdsl1.ddns.net 0.0.0.0 metron6-vdsl2.ddns.net 0.0.0.0 metron6-adsl1.ddns.net and the results are: WARNING: Flapping status Tue Sep 12 02:26:15 2017 conn NOT ok : DNS lookup failed Unable to resolve hostname metron6-adsl1.ddns.net System unreachable for 287 poll periods (83744 seconds) 0.0.0.0 is alive (23.0 ms)regards, the hostname is certainly resolvable... the graph attached is more strange... Metron 6 (six) Metron6 at gmail.com

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create a read only page
by mailinglist＠tikklik.nl 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hello, Is it possible to create a read only frontpage So only with the green/yellow/red icons but without the links to the detail pages With regards Steffan

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DNS failures causing "runtime longer than time limit"
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Hi I'm running Xymon v4.3.10 on Linux, and I'm quite sure it's compiled with c-ares support. I have 12 new DNS servers that were added to Xymon about one month ago. All of my server entries in hosts.cfg have "testip". The tasks.cfg runs xymonet with "--dns-timeout=3". The hosts entries look like so: 10.10.10.1 dnshost1.example.com # testip dns=NS:example.com,SOA: example.com About a week ago, connectivity to all of these servers failed, and at the same time, the xymonnet run time jumped from less than 15 seconds to about 330 seconds, so about 315 seconds extra. The xymonnet page says 295 seconds is taken up by DNS tests. If the increase in time taken is about 315 and is entirely due to the 12 servers failing, then each failed server is adding about 26 seconds to the total run time. I don't think this should be happening like this. With two DNS checks per server, the DNS checks should be taking 6 seconds each to time-out, not 26. If I run xymonnet with "--timing --no-update" and specify only one hostname, I can view the results and the timing. This shows that the ping check gets reported after about 3 seconds, and then the DNS tests are executed and take 26 seconds total. My naiive assumption was that when a server failed a ping (and didn't have "noclear" defined in hosts.cfg) then the network checks would be skipped. On re-reading the man page for hosts.cfg, it dawned on me that a failed ping simply suppresses failed test /results/, but doesn't stop the tests from being run. So the real problem is that the "--dns-timeout=3" is not being taken into consideration by xymonnet. If I run xymonnet with "--debug" it tells me: 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 ares_search: tlookup='example.com', class=1, type=2 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 ares_search: tlookup='example.com', class=1, type=6 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:20 Processing 0 DNS lookups with ARES 1900 2015-06-03 12:02:46 Finished ARES queue after loop 423 This is peculiar. Why would it say "processing 0 DNS lookups" when there are two lookups to test? Could this be because xymonnet hasn't actually been built with ARES support and I didn't know it? Is there a good way to tell? If I add "--no-ares" I get the same results perhaps suggesting a lack of ARES support. On the other hand, if I add "timeout:3" and "attempts:1" into resolv.conf, I also get the same results. If I run "nm /path/to/xymonnet | grep gethostby" it returns "ares_gethostbyname". Just for fun, I compiled Xymon v4.3.21 and ran the xymonnet binary from there, with no change in behaviour. I also tried removing the "--dns-timeout" option so that it defaults to 30 seconds, but still no change - 26 seconds for two DNS tests. So, I'm not really sure what the problem is, but xymonnet certainly isn't behaving as I would expect. Cheers Jeremy

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