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good or bad html "tags" not showing in web page "msgs" report
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

I have a log entry that looks like this: [2015-03-02 13:32:43.011110] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/ZUMA/zumaamericaseight/docs/364/090 :<gfid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> failed (Invalid argument) This is in the gluster NFS log. I wanted to stop getting alarms on this log entry, so I looked at what I get when I click on the red icon under "msgs" in my browser ... only that shows up like this (not exactly the same log entry, but the format is the same): .2015-03-13 22:48:18.447034] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/IS/isphotos/docs/056/515 : failed (Invalid argument) The problem is that the browser interpreted the part starting with "<gfid:" and ending with ">" as an HTML tag, so it didn't display it. I did not realize this was happening, so I built an "ignore" line for client-local.cfg that did not include that part, and I was really scratching my head as to why my ignore did not work. Would it be possible to automatically convert characters in log entries that are special to HTML into their HTML equivalents for display in a browser? In this case, < would become < ... > would be %gt; ... and so on. Thanks, Shawn

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Acknowledge log report anyone?
by abs＠shadymint.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Hi, Has anyone got anything that will search and report on the acknowledge log in the manner that notifications.cgi will do for the notification log? Thanks -- Andy

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Externals Issues
by john＠executech.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I've been trying to use bbwin to send a status message to our hobbit server (we haven't upgraded to Xymon yet). BBWin is generating the file and putting it in the tmp folder and it disappears after a few seconds. And that's the last I see of the message. Nothing shows up on the server. Is there any way to see incoming messages to the server or a log that might tell me why it didn't take the message? My script checks the diskpart and then reports the status of a Windows raid to hobbit in this format: status server,group.raid green Thu 03/12/2015 13:05:13.16 RAID is Okay Volume 0 C NTFS Mirror 931 GB Healthy Boot Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Mirror 100 MB Healthy System Any direction would be very helpful. John Tullis Executech Cell: 801.857.4572 Office: 801.253.4541

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No Interface graphs for hosts on CentOS 7..
by rolf＠glptrading.com 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I googled, and couldn't find anything regarding this, but I'm not seeing any interface graphs for hosts with CentOS7 / RedHat 7, and I'm trying to understand why. RPMs freshly built from 4.3.18 for CentOS7, the client is running 4.3.18, and the server is 4.3.9. Is there some sort of incompatability here with the output from ifconfig or ifstat? Best regards, Rolf Brusletto Senior Network And Systems Admin Global Liquidity Partners, LLC rolf at glptrading.com 720-763-8163 office 303-638-8013 mobile -- *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, may include non-public, proprietary, confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized agent of an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of the information contained in or transmitted with this e-mail is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and permanently delete this e-mail, its attachments, and any copies of it immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this e-mail or any attachment for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of the contents to any other person.*

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Postfix queue monitor - no graphs
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

I'm setting up this client-side monitor: https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:postfix I ran into a number of issues, and I've fixed all but one of them. The graphs aren't working. I followed all the instructions on that page, except that the config files I edited did not have "hobbit" in the name because I'm running 4.3.14 on the server and 4.3.7 on the client. What troubleshooting steps do I need to follow to figure out if I did something wrong with the graphing config and what to change? The major problem I encountered and fixed was permission related. The xymon user cannot read postfix queues, and the postfix user cannot write to the xymon client tmp directory. I solved this with these changes to the client system: In /etc/sudoers.d/xymon: xymon ALL=(postfix : xymon) SETENV:NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/xymon/client/ext/postfix.sh In /etc/xymon/clientlaunch.d/xymon/postfix.cfg: CMD /usr/bin/sudo -E -u postfix -g xymon $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/postfix.sh In /var/lib/xymon/tmp: chmod g+w -R . Is that a reasonable permission fix, or should I have done it a different way? Separate issue, more annoying than a real problem: Both xymonton and the download site for the postfix queue monitor script are using self-signed certificates. It is not difficult to obtain zero-cost publicly-signed certificates that work in all modern browsers, so I think this should be fixed. Thanks, Shawn

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Client Side Scripts
by dallas＠ekkysoftware.com 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Hello Xymon, What I was looking to do, was to monitor a remote server with a custom script and run a 'http' web-server test. I was thinking along the lines of a script forming an alert. So the monitored server will have http://remote.server.com/cgi-bin/test-server.pl for example, and it returns:- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"> <alert> <code>1002</code> <message>MySQL connection refused</message> </alert> When Xymon would receive the xml output and process the message accordingly. Can this be done? Thanks, Dallas.

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Xymon Powershell Windows client
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Hi all, Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN (in sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing these changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now for around 8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of benefit to everyone! Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving reliability and most importantly improving performance. In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now takes around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load) servers, the script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this has been reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit. We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house requirements but hopefully useful to others: * Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has been implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime. * Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services sessions test * Ability to restart any stopped Windows service * Client self-update * Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external scripts) Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration which was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry settings if you prefer). In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word document which describes how to install and the configuration options. I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history of development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes and improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as such we are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix, branch or whatever, please do so! Zak Beck Accenture

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Xymon / Devmon Graphs only on trends
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

I am trying to setup Devmon 0.3.1-beta1 with Xymon 4.3.17. I am currently testing with the generic ups template. I can't work out how to make the graphs appear on the same page as the test. I think I have Devmon setup correctly and I have .rrd files being generated for the tests. If I add the tests to "GRAPHs=.." in xymonserver.cfg they appear on the trends page: GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JMS,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,snapmirr,snaplist,snapshot,devmon::1,if_load::1,temp,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond,battery,power,powerin" The problem is if I add them to TEST2RRD using "devmon" syntax like below they do not display on the test page. TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JMS,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,snapmirr,snaplist,snapshot,if_load=devmon,temp=devmon,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond,battery=devmon,power=devmon,powerin=devmon" If I remove "=devmon" like below they appear but the .rrd files stop updating. TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JMS,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,snapmirr,snaplist,snapshot,if_load=devmon,temp=devmon,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond,battery,power,powerin " I cannot work out what I am doing wrong. Is there something in xymon I need to do to make this work? Separate Question - Is devmon still the best way to do SNMP monitoring with xymon? I can see there is a file called snmpmibs.cfg but a quick google and it looks like this was never fully developed? Regards, Brandon

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DOWNTIME accross multiple days
by BDale＠kitchengroup.com.au 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

I can't work out if I can use DOWNTIME and span the downtime period across multiple days. I need to not alert on a column from 11:00pm on Fridays to 4:00am on Mondays This is what I have come up with: DOWNTIME=column:51:2300:0400:"offline during this period" The Config report shows: Planned downtime: Fri/Mon:2300:0400 (status:column) (cause:copy offline during this period) I think this is actually saying 2300-0400 on Friday and Monday which is not what I want. Is what I want to do possible and what is the correct syntax? Regards, Brandon

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Ways to graph stats from BIND
by john.thurston＠alaska.gov 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

In an effort to get some performance and utilization information from our BIND servers, I've been exploring ways to get that data into rrds and graphed in Xymon. I am aware of two mechanisms for extracting statistical data from BIND. A) In the "old" way, BIND appends lines to a statically named text file. This is done by inserting lines like the following into the BIND configuration file: > zone-statistics yes; > statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats"; And then asking BIND to add new information to that file by using the "rndc stats" command. B) The "new" way is to publish statistics in an XML file over HTTP on a specific network port. This is done by inserting lines like the following into the BIND configuration file: > statistics-channels { > inet * port 8888 ; > }; And then querying http://localhost:8888/xml/v2 to receive a whole bunch of information in an XML file. Jeremy Laidman shared his script "xymon-rnamedstats" (thank you for sharing, Jeremy!) http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rnamedstats/xymon-rnamedstats.sh which depends on Method-A. I've adjusted his script just enough to get it running on Solaris, and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to adjust it further to handle the counters and fields I want to have graphed. But before I invest more time customizing a solution dependent on Method-A, I'd like to explore Method-B. Has anyone already explored parsing the BIND-statistics XML file into RRDs? Do you have any comments or suggestions? How about generically parsing and selecting data from XML files and using it to add information to RRDs? Do you have suggestions of tools or techniques? -- Do things because you should, not just because you can. John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska

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