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who.dll in Windows 8?
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

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Redhat Memory Question
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

I have never monitored any Redhat systems before, all Solaris in the past for the most part. Since top and free always show all the physical memory in use on Redhat, how do people monitor memory usage accurately with Xymon? Currently the Memory tag shows as yellow under this new Redhat server, though in my mind it should be green. Mem: 16435916k total, 16311612k used, 124304k free, 6255112k buffers Swap: 18481144k total, 0k used, 18481144k free, 6391000k cached total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16435916 16311588 124328 0 6255116 6391040 -/+ buffers/cache: 3665432 12770484 Swap: 18481144 0 18481144 Thanks in advance Wes Neal

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Redhat Memory Question
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:25 AM Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > I have never monitored any Redhat systems before, all Solaris in the past > for the most part. Since top and free always show all the physical memory > in use on Redhat, how do people monitor memory usage accurately with Xymon? Xymon tracks swap usage, physical memory usage, and "actual" memory usage. The last of these is what most people care about. In analysis.cfg you can set thresholds on any of these. On my system the thresholds for physical memory usage are 100% for yellow and 101% for red. Under Linux, "actual memory" is obtained from the output of "free" which is recorded in the [free] section of the client data, specifically from the "buffers/cache" line. The value for "actual used" comes from the first number. The "actual total" is the total physical memory and is the first number in the "Mem:" line. Currently the Memory tag shows as yellow under this new Redhat server, > though in my mind it should be green. > For actual memory usage, yes. Mem: 16435916k total, 16311612k used, 124304k free, 6255112k buffers > Swap: 18481144k total, 0k used, 18481144k free, 6391000k cached > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 16435916 16311588 124328 0 6255116 6391040 > -/+ buffers/cache: 3665432 12770484 > Swap: 18481144 0 18481144 > In your case, on your "memory" status page you would see "Actual 3579M 16050M 22%" meaning 3.5GB non-cache/buffer RAM usage used out of 16GB total physical RAM, which is 22%. So actual usage is 22%. If your yellow threshold for MEMACT is the default of 90, then this 22% is well short of triggering a yellow condition. And it must be something else. On your memory status page each line should have its own coloured dot. Which of the lines has a yellow dot? I'm guessing it's the "Physical", and someone has modified the MEMPHYS threshold in analysis.cfg to go yellow at 99% instead of 100%. J

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Dependencies for xymond and xymonnet (with particular reference to JC's terabithia.org RPMs)
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hi JC, This may be off-topic for everyone else as I'm talking about an unofficial RPM (I know), but just to get this into the mailing list archive... I want to install xymon server on a system, but it will be forwarding its results to another xymon server and therefore I have no need for web pages, RRD files, etc. In fact, I think I only need xymond, xymonnet and an add-on monitor. (Plus xymon-client.) When I try and install your RPM, it wants to install all sorts of things I don't want like apache and libX11 (see below). Installing: xymon Installing for dependencies: apr apr-util apr-util-ldap audit-libs-python cairo dejavu-fonts-common dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts fontconfig fontpackages-filesystem fping freetype httpd httpd-tools libX11 libX11-common libXau libXft libXrender libcgroup libselinux-python libsemanage-python libthai libxcb mailcap net-snmp-libs pango pixman policycoreutils-python rrdtool setools-libs setools-libs-python Transaction Summary ============================= Install 33 Package(s) How should I do a minimal install? (I have your repo mirrored, but you can't exclude dependencies with yum AFAIK.) I just did a: # sudo rpm -i fping-3.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm <no errors> # sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm <output below> warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 30: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 31: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 32: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 33: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 34: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 35: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 36: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or directory Realizing that I probably needed /usr/sbin/semanage at least, I did: # sudo rpm -e xymon warning: /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg saved as /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.rpmsave # sudo rm -fR /etc/xymon # sudo yum install setools-libs-python # sudo yum install policycoreutils-python And what the heck, it's just one package that I may use and xymon wants it directly, rather than a dependency of a dependency, so: # sudo yum install net-snmp-libs # sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: group apache does not exist - using root Should I have any problems that you foresee? Thanks and kind regards, SebA

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xymon administrator passwd
by anelkamm＠gmail.com 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Good day I'm having a problem with the xymon administrator password, it keeps on requesting the credentials. Kind Regards Michael

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Redhat Memory Question
by feld＠feld.me 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Honestly, memory usage should never go red unless there is enough memory pressure to generate a lot of swap paging I/O. Maximizing memory usage is a feature of a modern OS. I'm surprised your swap is completely empty on that server. Swap is meant to be used.

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Troubleshooting XymonPS
by rectifier＠gmail.com 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hi all, I'm possibly going to make a fool out of myself here but thought I would pose the question any way. Thanks to all involved in making the PS client, seems like it's going to be a great tool for me but I need to work out what I am doing wrong. I have installed Xymonclient.ps1 on my server (windows server 2012) in c:\program files\xymon. Directory of C:\Program Files\Xymon 18-03-15 17:09 <DIR> . 18-03-15 17:09 <DIR> .. 18-03-15 10:09 <DIR> logs 18-03-15 07:49 331.264 nssm.exe 18-03-15 15:09 107.232 xymonclient.ps1 18-03-15 15:30 380 xymonclient_config.xml 18-03-15 07:49 396.800 XymonPSClient.exe 18-03-15 07:50 1.841 xymonsend.ps1 I have a service running called XymonPSClient. I have log files saying data is being collected and data has been sent: end of log file here: 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Main and optional tests finished. 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Sending to server 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Connecting to host (ip of my server) 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Sent 49192 bytes to server 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Received 0 bytes from server 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Executing RepeatTests 2015-03-18 17:50:52 RepeatTests finished 2015-03-18 17:50:52 Delaying until next run: 295.7656229 seconds But when I check Xymon, no client data is actually being received, no columns are appearing for the host I defined in bb-hosts. I did a ./bb localhost "hobbitdboard host=(my host name)" and there is no client information there other than trends/info/conn which is fetched by the Xymon server. Couple of points: - There are no registry entries for XymonPSClient at the locations listed in the readme - I am using an older version of Xymon (hobbit) which works fine with bbwin. - telnet to hobbit server using port 1984 - all ok. - xymon-lastcollect.txt has all the information inside that I expect. XymonSettings as follows: [XymonConfig] XymonSettings serversList : (my xymon server) wanteddisksList : {3} clientname : (my client host name) clientbbwinmembug : 1 clientsoftware : powershell loopinterval : 300 maxlogage : 60 MaxEvents : 5000 slowscanrate : 72 reportevt : 1 EnableWin32_Product : 0 EnableWin32_QuickFixEngineering : 0 EnableWMISections : 0 ClientProcessPriority : Normal clientlogpath : c:\program files\xymon\logs clientlogretain : 0 servergiflocation : /xymon/gifs/ servers : (my xymon server) clientlogfile : c:\program files\xymon\logs\xymonclient.log clientconfigfile : c:\program files\xymon\clientconfig.cfg clientfqdn : 1 clientlower : 1 clientremotecfgexec : 1 note: clientconfigfile : c:\program files\xymon\clientconfig.cfg this file doesn't exist Any ideas? Many thanks, sorry for long message but wanted to include as much info as possible.

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non-blinking icons (nb-red.gif et al) for Xymon status?
by landrew＠pnnl.gov 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

I went looking through the Xymon mailing list archive, and saw references to "nb" (non-blinking) GIFs in the past, but I don't see any files with "nb" in their names (besides a client for "openbsd" and "xymonbody.css") in the xymon build or installed directories. This is Xymon-4.3.18, built from source on RedHat RHEL-6.6 Linux. Since I often have a Xymon display running either in a VM that's VPN'd to a different project network, or displayed on a remote desktop display, the constant display change from the "blinking", "winking" and "pulsing" icons drive a lot of unnecessary network traffic and/or CPU time. Do I need to dig back into the BigBrother files to find the non-blinkers, am I just looking in the wrong place (or for the wrong names), or do I need to make some new ones? They used to be called "nb-red.gov", "nb-yellow.gif" and "nb-purple.gif", at least on my BigBrother server. Cheers, -Andrew

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possible bug with combostatus when hostnames start with numbers?
by g.stone-tolcher＠its.uq.edu.au 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

I have some devices with names like "01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au". With a combo.cfg entry like this: prndc2.nexus.comboalert.fping = ( 01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping && 01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping ) >=1 The resulting test produces output like so: (01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping&&01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping)>=1 = (01\-0042\-1&&01\-0042\-1)>=1 = 0 clear dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping clear dc2-d8-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping Errors occurred during evaluation: compute((01\-0042\-1&&01\-0042\-1)>=1) returned error 4 It looks like it is having a problem with those names for some reason, truncating the name in the first part of the result "dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au" instead of "01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au" and then compute bit having just "01\-0042\-1"? Whereas simply prefixing the letter "a" to the hostname entries like so "a01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au" : prndc2.nexus.comboalert.fping = ( a01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping && a01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping ) >=1 Produces the expected output: (a01\-0042\-dc2\-c2\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping&&a01\-0042\-dc2\-d8\-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping)>=1 = (1&&1)>=1 = 1 green a01-0042-dc2-c2-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping green a01-0042-dc2-d8-ag01.netman.uq.edu.au.fping Any ideas? It looks like a bug to me. Cheers, Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response Information Technology Services The University of Queensland Level 4, Prentice Building, St Lucia 4072 T: +61 7 334 66645, M: +61 401 140 838 E: g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au<mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au> W: www.its.uq.edu.au<http://www.its.uq.edu.au> ITS: Service. Team. Accountability. Results. IMPORTANT: This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s), contain copyright material and are confidential. We do not waive any legal privilege or rights in respect of copyright or confidentiality. Except as intended addressees are otherwise permitted, you do not have permission to use, disclose, reproduce or communicate any part of this email or its attachments. Statements, opinions and information not related to the official business of The University of Queensland are neither given nor endorsed by us. By using this email (including accessing any attachments or links) you agree we are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising in connection with any electronic defect, virus or other malicious code we did not intentionally include. Please consider the environment before printing this email. CRICOS Code 00025B

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DNS statistics monitor
by Wim.Nelis＠nlr.nl 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Hi, today I've published a xymon monitor on xymonton, named retds (RETreive_Dns_Statistics). It tracks the statistics of BIND DNS servers and/or Windows DNS servers. Regards, Wim Nelis.

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