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analysis.cfg includes
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hey, Does analysis.cfg let you use the "directory" include like many of the other config files? My analysis.cfg is getting a bit unwieldy. thanks =G=

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analysis.cfg, part 2
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

One more...I have some file tests that are testing for file ages and I want them to go yellow at one threshold, red later...I have rules similar to the following: FILE %/localvolume/customer/.*/schedule/.*.xml$ yellow TYPE=FILE MTIME<2700 FILE %/localvolume/customer/.*/schedule/.*.xml$ red TYPE=FILE MTIME<3600 is there a more succinct way to put that in like: FILE %/localvolume/customer/.*/schedule/.*.xml$ yellow TYPE=FILE MTIME<2700 red TYPE=FILE MTIME<3600? I can't see anything helpful in the man pages or analysis.cfg file itself...the entire FILE section is confusing and somewhat contradictory. It would be nice if all the tests were consistent with regards to color...for example: LOG filename match-pattern [COLOR=color] [IGNORE=ignore-pattern] [TEXT=displaytext] vs FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK] Note there is no "color=" component for FILE (and others). I think this was actually causing a false positive with some of the tests that were set up to use "COLOR=YELLOW", for example (these went straight to red since that is the default non-green state). Also, is there really a need for DIR directory [color] [SIZE<maxsize] [SIZE>minsize] [TRACK] since I'm pretty sure FILE /path red TYPE=dir [SIZE<maxsize] [SIZE>minsize] [TRACK] is equivalent. thanks =G=

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proxy issues
by snowolfex＠yahoo.com 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Ok - been trying my BEST to track down this issue, but simple of it is we are upgrading a proxy Going from Centos 5.11 (or 7) and from xymon 4.3.10 to Centos 6.7 and xymon 4.3.21 Should be (you would think) as simple as making sure config files are same, or basically copy the /etx/xymon over, bring down old, bring up new on old ip. What is just absolutely weird, that I have YET to track down as to why or what, suddenly now conn, ntp, http, bbd are no longer updated. Everything else seems to be working and updating from proxy to main. What I need help with is why did THOSE just stop? I've been going through the mailing list archives - I've setup a smaller "test system(s)" at the house (all on vm), can get everything working there, but NOT on this.Just any direction on what I could specifically debug to find this problem would be a help. Thanks Keith Dowell

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API MONITORING
by cleaver＠terabithia.org 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

On Sun, January 3, 2016 10:10 am, eli wrote: > Hello, > Is there any Api monitoring add on for xymon, I have bash script to test > if the API return 200 or not but I am looking if some better script may > indictate the latency like the url test or any other open source app can > do that. > ThanksEli Hi, Can you clarify what you're trying to do? "API monitoring" is pretty generic. If you're referring to an internal web service, then it depends on what the URL that you're hitting is doing and why. If you just want to check that you're getting a 200 response (and, therefore, that you're getting a response in the first place), you don't need an external script to do that. Check out the 'httpstatus' option in hosts.cfg(5) -- xymonnet can do that for you. If you have something more involved, it's common to use xymon to check a specific "health page" on a site that exercises a DB or does whatever site-appropriate backend validation is necessary. You can then use xymonnet to poll that page, possibly paying closer attention to the HTTP response code, and/or looking for a specific string in the body/header, and/or comparing against an MD5 hash of the content... More complicated checks are possible (combo alerts based off of one or more separate checks, or dependency configurations as long as all the components are being checked over TCP by the same xymonnet instance), but depending on your site's needs that might be when it's time to start looking at scripting up a custom xymon test as a solution. HTH, -jc

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API MONITORING
by eliap09＠yahoo.com 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

Hello, Is there any Api monitoring add on for xymon, I have bash script to test if the API return 200 or not but I am looking if some better script may indictate the latency like the url test or any other open source app can do that. ThanksEli Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Adding to subject line of email notice?
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

By using a SCRIPT alert you can display whatever you like. As long as you can get it. In this case, the only tricky but is finding the name of the subpage. The "subpage" config directive is intended for web page display and is parsed only by xymongen. The page tags are not actually assigned to each host and so there is no mechanism to query what page a host is on. However you could find a host's subpage by using GNU grep context on the output of the xymoncfg command. Something like this (untested): SUBPAGE=`xymoncfg | egrep "^[.0-9]*[[:blank:]]*$BBHOSTNAME|^subpage" | egrep -B1 "^[.0-9]*[[:blank:]]*$BBHOSTNAME" | { read A B C; echo "$C" }` Cheers Jeremy On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 02:29 Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > Is there a way to include the subpage as part of the subject AND the body > of the email alert that Xymon sends. > > > > So if your hosts.cfg had something like this in it: > > > > subpage chicken Chicken Servers > > > > I get a CPU alert via email and the subject says: > > > > Xymon [120954] server01:cpu CRITICAL (RED) > > > > I would like the subject to say instead: > > > > Xymon [120954] server01:cpu CRITICAL (RED) Chicken Servers > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon" <xymon at xymon.com> > To: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> > Cc: > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:29:43 +0100 (CET) > Subject: [Xymon] Adding to subject line of email notice? > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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Adding to subject line of email notice?
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

Is there a way to include the subpage as part of the subject AND the body of the email alert that Xymon sends. So if your hosts.cfg had something like this in it: subpage chicken Chicken Servers I get a CPU alert via email and the subject says: Xymon [120954] server01:cpu CRITICAL (RED) I would like the subject to say instead: Xymon [120954] server01:cpu CRITICAL (RED) Chicken Servers Thanks in advance!

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Xymon and Oracle ASM?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Anyone got any good scripts for xymon and Oracle ASM?

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xymonnet crashes adding a https test
by thomleavitt＠gmail.com 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

I think I've just run into this same https / RHEV SSL certificate crashing Xymonnet issue. I've emailed everyone offline, but I thought I'd also drop a message here, in case anyone else has run into it, or I missed something about a resolution. I've confirmed that this problem is not triggered on non-RHEV sites. I'm using the terabithia RPMs on Scientific Linux. Regards, Thomas Leavitt file core.4818 core.4818: ELF 64-bit LSB core file x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse' gdb /usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet core.4818 GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-64.el7 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet...Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (no debugging symbols found)...done. [New LWP 4818] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007f9942cf65f7 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install xymon-4.3.24-3.el7.x86_64 On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote: > On 17 July 2014 19:57, Ing. Mario De Chenno <mario.dechenno at unina2.it> > wrote: > >> 4.3.17 >> > > OK, I think it's a bug caused by a malformed certificate. In this line: > > certstart = strdup(xymon_ASN1_UTCTIME(X509_get_notBefore(peercert))); > > strdup() will segfault if it gets a null parameter. xymon_ASN1_UTCTIME() > returns a null parameter if X509_get_notBefore() returns a value that's too > small in size, and perhaps if it returns null. > > I think something like this would be better: > > certstart_p = xymon_ASN1_UTCTIME(X509_get_notBefore(peercert)); > if (certstart_p == NULL){ > errprintf("Invalid certificate\n"); > return NULL; > } > certstart = strdup(certstart_p); > > In fact probably better to use strndup() to reduce the risk of buffer > overflows. > > Please note: I'm not a programmer, and the above code is untested, > probably contains bugs, and may cause your house to burn down and other > nasty things. > > Cheers > Jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > >

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Monitoring process with regex - fails with 4.3.4 and BBWin 0.13
by sirusirus14＠gmail.com 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hello I will use the BBWin 0.13 in Windows Server 2012, the Xymon 4.3.4 on CentOS I use. In order to monitor the regular expression to the Windows process, we set as follows in the BBWin.cfg of Windows Server. <procs> <setting name "notepad" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" /> <setting name "% notepad C: \ Users \ Administrator \ Desktop \ test.txt" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" /> <setting name "% notepad *" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" /> <setting name "% ^ notepad *" rule = "= 2" alarmcolor = "red" /> </ procs> The first line "notepad" only I've correctly match, the rest regular expression does not match. Please tell me if there is a mistake. Thank you very much.

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