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Parsing problems with client reports
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Hello list, Has anyone been working on the problem where reports from clients are getting confused on the server? I am getting multiple false alerts daily now where it will turn back to green at the next test, and when I go to look at the test in xymon it's because it's only got partial information. In multiple instances now I've been able to see the report from another client, in part or in full, in one clients page. In the most recent incident last week I could see the beginning client line from another windows client report halfway down in the ports test for a Linux client. All the false reports are really damaging the trust we place in Xymon to monitor our systems, and people are starting to just delete the warning emails without looking at them because we get so many false reports now. 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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Discarding Powershell client CPU negative values
by Scot.Kreienkamp＠la-z-boy.com 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Hi list, I have a powershell client that is occasionally reporting negative values for CPU usage. Since that's not possible I wanted to pass along this easy modification for load average in the graphs.cfg for any clients that want to get rid of the negative values on their graphs. This doesn't remove them from the RRD, just discards values below 0 and above 1000 when generating the graph. Load cannot be negative so this may be something to include in the base configuration. Here's a diff: 36,37c36 < CDEF:la_min0=avg,100,/ < CDEF:la=la_min0,0,1000,LIMIT --- > CDEF:la=avg,100,/ And here's what my graphs.cfg looks like now: [la] TITLE CPU Load YAXIS Load DEF:avg=la.rrd:la:AVERAGE CDEF:la_min0=avg,100,/ CDEF:la=la_min0,0,1000,LIMIT AREA:la#00CC00:CPU Load Average -u 1.0 GPRINT:la:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:la:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:la:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:la:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n 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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does alert "recover" if you blue and already alerted test
by bakgat8＠hotmail.com 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

If I have a conn that is red - and I have gotten the alert. Then somebody sets the host to blue - will the conn send a recovered alert? Same senario except the test is comething like disk - not conn that runs from the Xymon server (not the client) - same question - will I get a recover alert ? Version 4.3.10: subversion 23

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monitor an RDP user
by dito74＠gmail.com 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

I need to monitor and make sure the user is always logged on, it's obviously windows. I am using the bbwin client still, it has the who.dll external builtin but you can't specify any parameters for it. I am mainly looking for idea, I can manage a batch file or a powershell to pass it to, search current session, find the user and "green if it's loggedin" or "purple". I need a little more help with linux however, so my question to you guys is: should I instead do this on the xymon server? grep the existing "who" report maybe and then spit out a new report name "useron" or something like that? If that's possible, should I look at analysis.cfg or should I play with xmongrep ? Thank you in advance. Gab

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xymon alert noise
by bakgat8＠hotmail.com 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

________________________________ No idea what you mean by sound - but I'll share my version of sound I have a special page set that the operators see - opsnongreen_header - and I put a bgsound src= in that html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Sat, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=&XYMWEBPAGEPATH; path=/"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/"> <TITLE>&XYMWEBBACKGROUND : Xymon - Status @ &XYMWEBDATE</TITLE>  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&XYMONBODYCSSOPS">  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&XYMONBODYMENUCSSOPS">  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="&XYMONSKIN/favicon-&XYMWEBBACKGROUND.ico"> </HEAD> <BODY class="&XYMWEBBACKGROUND"> <bgsound src="&XYMONSKIN/../sounds/&XYMWEBBACKGROUND.wav" loop="0"> --- snip ---- the fun thing is it only works in windows explorer and I don't use explorer - so when I go to the operators page (using firefox) - I do not have an obnoxious sound YMMV ________________________________ From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Ulric Eriksson <ulric at siag.nu> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:40 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Fwd: xymon alert Den 2016-12-08 kl. 22:34, skrev John Thurston: > On 12/8/2016 6:00 AM, venkat v wrote: >> Hi Team, >> >> i want to set alaram sound to my xymon alerts if it is possible. > > If you want a meaningful response, you need to give us more to work with. > > Do you want audible alarms on your xymon server? On a specific client? > > Maybe you want your phone to go "beep"? > > Maybe it is as simple as sending a CTRL-G to your Teletype. I don't > know. Your question is too vague to answer correctly. > I would start by typing "man alerts.cfg" and marvel at the possibilities offered by the SCRIPT recipient. Then the challenge is to write a script that beeps, which is left as an exercise for the OP. Ulric _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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xymon and IPv6
by df＠14v.de 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi List, I'm currently wondering about the development of IPv6 Tests in xymon. The only hints about planned development I could find on the web are from 2012/2013. In the hosts.cfg I tried to define an IPv6 address with brackets [] and without, but xymon just ignores those lines. Does anyone know if xymon can maybe do some basic tests like ping to an IPv6 address or if there are any plans for IPv6 monitoring in the future ? Thanks a lot in advance ! Bye, Dirk

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Updated SSL cert expiration date not refreshing
by support＠innovateteam.com 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

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xymond not accepting connections
by David.Mills＠hhsc.state.tx.us 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hi, all! We have a rather murky situation. A colleague accidentally completely removed the Xymon (4.3.3 / Solaris) server home directory recently. It was restored from backups, but since then that server has not been completely functioning. ('Don't know if our symptoms are related to the home dir "zap" or what...) We periodically run the ghostlist.cgi app from cron and now these instances sometimes don't exit. When I run truss on them, I see they are almost continuously calling brk(): allocating anonymous memory for that instance's heap. It's gotten so bad that we've had this server's resources completely depleted and now have had to turn off the cron jobs The xymond daemon is no longer accepting connections, despite the fact that this server has been stable for years. The system was rebooted last night and seemed to be functioning throughout the night but stopped updating around 7:30 AM Confirmed xymond is no longer accepting connections via: 17:03:49 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> telnet 127.0.0.1 1984 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused 17:02:53 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> ps -u hobbit -f UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD hobbit 4132 4131 1 17:02:36 ? 0:26 xymond --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/xymond.pid --restart=/export/xymon/server/tmp/x hobbit 4288 4279 0 17:03:01 ? 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 12895 12867 0 10:54:01 pts/5 0:00 -bash hobbit 4278 1908 0 17:03:00 ? 0:00 sh -c /usr/local/devmon/bin/restart.devmon> /dev/null 2>&1 hobbit 12491 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12490 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12487 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 15958 5466 0 11:20:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 15612 5466 0 11:17:01 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 17158 5466 0 03:45:03 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12488 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 12489 5466 0 03:10:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 4290 4289 0 17:03:01 ? 0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 4257 4143 0 17:02:46 ? 0:00 /home/hobbit/xymon/client/bin/xymon 0.0.0.0 @ hobbit 15776 5466 0 11:18:51 ? 0:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start hobbit 4148 4141 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 /export/xymon/server/bin/xymonnet --ping --checkresponse --timeout=10 --dns-tim hobbit 4279 4278 0 17:03:01 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /usr/local/devmon/bin/restart.devmon hobbit 4135 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/xymon/clientdata.log xymond_clie hobbit 4140 4131 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timeout=10 --dns-timeout=2 --dnslog= hobbit 4141 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /export/xymon/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh hobbit 4137 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-data.log xymond_rrd --rr hobbit 4144 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/data.log xymond_filestore -- hobbit 4131 1 0 17:02:36 ? 0:00 /export/xymon-4.3.3/server/bin/xymonlaunch --config=/export/xymon-4.3.3/server/ hobbit 4136 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-status.log xymond_rrd hobbit 4133 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/xymon/history.log xymond_history hobbit 12912 12885 0 10:54:09 pts/7 0:00 -bash hobbit 4143 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /export/xymon-4.3.3/client/bin/xymonclient.sh hobbit 4289 4288 0 17:03:01 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/devmon/devmon hobbit 4139 4131 1 17:02:41 ? 0:21 xymongen --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=2 --ignorecolumns=files --tooltips=never hobbit 4134 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/xymon/alert.log xymond_alert --che hobbit 4138 4131 0 17:02:41 ? 0:00 xymond_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/xymon/hostdata.log xymond_hostda The only other clue I've been able to find is this note in the xymonlaunch.log file: 15:29:24 pwsu020:/var/log/xymon> tail -50f xymonlaunch.log ... 2016-11-17 13:54:36 xymonlaunch starting 2016-11-17 13:54:36 Loading tasklist configuration from /export/xymon-4.3.3/server/etc/tasks.cfg 2016-11-17 13:54:36 Loading hostnames 2016-11-17 13:54:41 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME 2016-11-17 13:57:44 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME 2016-11-17 14:00:46 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOME Yet, when I tried this, as well as grep'ing through xymonlaunch "truss" output for HOME, I see valid home directory values: 13:58:35 pwsu020:~> echo 'echo HOME=$HOME XYMSRV=$XYMSRV XYMSERVERS=$XYMSERVERS XYMONDPORT=$XYMONDPORT' | /home/hobbit/xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd 2016-11-17 13:58:38 Using default environment file /export/xymon-4.3.3/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg HOME=/home/hobbit XYMSRV=0.0.0.0 XYMSERVERS=10.235.57.11 10.235.157.56 XYMONDPORT=1984 Help! david ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman (512) 595-1238 (mobile)

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SSL cert expiration date not refreshing
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

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xymon alert
by velpulavenkat6＠gmail.com 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi Team, i want to set alaram sound to my xymon alerts if it is possible. regards venkat yadav

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