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Client for IGEL thin clients
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi all I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have a Xymon client for Linux based IGEL thin clients? Thanks CC

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Blue report for last month
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hi, I need to generate a report that shows all blue for last month with host/test/start-time/end-time Ideally this would be generated by running the Availability report and choosing all or maybe a new entry blue. I played around with running statusreport.cgi but it can't do history. It seems report.cgi takes away all blue. How can I generate a blue report for last month? - Roland

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local mode client
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

One of my co-workers has installed xymon 4.3.7, and wants to use local mode for configuration. The display server is not receiving anything from his machine if things run normally, but when run by hand, xymon can send data from his server (Solaris) to the display server. I enabled xymond_client --debug in xymonclient.sh: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $MSGTMPFILE $XYMONHOME/bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/localclient .cfg <$MSGTMPFILE And now I'm getting this: + ../bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=528383 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Got 161874 bytes 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 ../bin/xymond_client: Got message 1 @client#1|0|127.0.0.1|neptune.lib.iastate.edu|sunos 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Opening file ../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Compiling regex ^/zones.*/ 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Client report from host neptune.lib.iastate.edu 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 neptune.lib.iastate.edu: Duplicate client message at time 0, seq 1, lastseq 0 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 2, startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=366509 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 get_xymond_message: Returning NULL due to EOF + rm -f ../tmp/msg.neptune.lib.iastate.edu.txt I'm not sure where to go from here. Does local mode still work for most people? -Tracy

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acknowledge.c(gi) buffer overrun
by cb＠df7cb.de 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Hi, spotted on 4.3.17 in production: --- a/web/acknowledge.c +++ b/web/acknowledge.c @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) pcre *dummy; char *re; - re = (char *)malloc(8 + strlen(pagename)); + re = (char *)malloc(8 + 2*strlen(pagename)); sprintf(re, "%s$|^%s/.+", pagename, pagename); dummy = compileregex(re); if (dummy) { This might even deserve a CVE number, but as it's a seccgi, it's not widely exposed. Christoph -- cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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Monitor file content (trigger on keyword) on MS Windows
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hi, I would like to know how do you search for keywords in files on Windows (I'm using BBWIN as a Windows XYmon agent). I've tried fsmon BBWIN plugin without any luck. Any advice? Thanks

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errors with custom graphs
by Sheel.Shah＠rd.com 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hello, I set up some custom graphs to monitor my Memcached instances. However, I appear to have run into an issue. I set up my xymonserver.cfg to collect all of my data into one NCV file, as evidenced by my TEST2RRD and my configuration below. I also believe I defined the datatypes appropriately. The issue that I am seeing is in the RRD file itself, when I use the RRDTOOL to dump the file. All of the values for the various datatypes are showing as NaN. Would someone be able to point me in the direction of what I could be doing wrong? Thank you, Sheel TEST2RRD="<other stuff>,memcache-test=ncv,MC-TFH-8K01-11221=ncv,MC-TFH-8K01-11222=ncv,MC-TFH-8K02-11221=ncv,MC-TFH-8K02-11222=ncv" NCV_memcache-test="Hits:GAUGE,Misses:GAUGE,reqs:GAUGE,Gets:GAUGE,Sets:GAUGE,storage:GAUGE,items:GAUGE,hitratio:GAUGE,*:NONE" NCV_MC-TFH-8K01-11111="Hits:DERIVE,Misses:DERIVE,reqs:DERIVE,Gets:DERIVE,Sets:DERIVE,storage:DERIVE,items:DERIVE,hitratio:DERIVE,*:NONE"

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Agent information
by sanjana.ahlawat＠gssltd.co.in 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hi Team I am new to xymon and trying to learn about it. But I am unable to figure out few questions. 1. I run xymon client installation by apt-get. but can you tell me what is actually running or getting installed in my system is it a rpm or what? 2. how my agent works. how does it gains information from the system it is running on. 3. what is the architecture of the xymon. I would really appreciate your help. Please give me the insight of the tool. -- Thanks and Regards *Sanjana *

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Installing pcre2 10.0.0
by raulmoralesf＠yahoo.com.mx 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, May be this is not the correct site to ask about PCRE, however I'm installing thit library in order to set up XYMON, And the configure script of PCRE stops with this message:..... checking for link... link -lib checking the archiver (link -lib) interface... unknown configure: error: could not determine link -lib interface Someone knows what file/etc is missing to PCRE...??? Thanks in advance

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Question on trending using Windows MrBig client - working now, fix unknown
by Mark.Deiss＠xerox.com 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

First off, like to thank Mr. Eriksson for authoring the MrBig package. Really appreciate it. Running older Windows platforms so the powershell clients are not practical and prefer to minimize any Windows registry modifications which some of the other clients require. Created another dummy widget on the Windows box, made xymonserver.cfg updates on the Xymon server. Halted the MrBig service, halted the Xymon services, flushed the Xymon logs, restarted Xymon services then MrBig services --- and of course --- Mr. Johnson's Windows widget started populating the rrd databases on the Xymon server. Arggghh. No clue what cleared the issue. Had Mr. Johnson's widget just updating the web pages and was not working further on it's rrd issue while trying to get dummy widget to generate rrd content. Now, trying to figure out why the NCV_<testname>="blah1:GAUGE,blah2:GAUGE,*:NONE" syntax in the xymonserver.cfg is not suppressing garbage lines that have colon entries (lines with timestamp entries). Running Xymon 4.3.17 - time to see if there is some patch. Looking in the mail archive, see that Mr. Johnson in 2006 was discussing this issue with Mr. Stoerner replying with the NONE syntax. A rrdtool dump and rrdtool info is showing the garbage content being inserted into the rrd file. ________________________________________ From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Deiss, Mark [Mark.Deiss at xerox.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:53 AM To: ulric at siag.nu Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com >> xymon' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question on trending using Windows MrBig client Thank you sir. I looked through the C code and the messaging syntax tracks with what I have been fooling around with. I have some external tests coming from Xymon-based Linux boxes that are generating rrd content so the modifications for those in the xymonserver.cfg and graphs.cfg on the Xymon server are okay. There are rrd updates occurring for the Windows client on the Xymon server from the MrBig internal tests so it's not a perm issue on the Xymon server. The MrBig internals are showing rrd update activity in the Xymon server's rrd-status.log. The dummy external is registering in the rrd-status.log but showing no processing attempt. Have several other MrBig externals running on Windows boxes that are correctly sending messages across to the Xymon server; these are not involved with rrd operations. Mr. Johnson's termuser.pl procedure is the first time attempting rrd generation using data from a Windows box. The module is for a Windows platform using BBWIN; the module message using MrBig is appearing correctly in the Xymon web display. Nuts. Guess next step is to make a another dummy test (quit trying to use the internal citrix definition on the Xymon server), ncv based, single data point, and try again from the Windows client. Then try from a Linux box sending same content over under the ID of the Windows box. Will probably have to go into the xymond_rrd code and add a bunch more debug statements to figure out why the Windows message is not being processed. Try and figure out what check logic there is in front of the rrdcreate operation. ________________________________________ From: ulric at siag.nu [ulric at siag.nu] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 3:14 AM To: Deiss, Mark Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com >> xymon' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question on trending using Windows MrBig client 2015-01-26 21:15 skrev Deiss, Mark: > Has anyone successfully performed rrd trending using data from an > external test from a MrBig Windows client? I am the original author of the MrBig client and yes, it is certainly possible to use it to get trending data. Here is an example, an external test which controls an egg incubator. Not exactly what you're looking for, but the principle is the same. http://siag.nu/Incubator/ Ulric _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Question on trending using Windows MrBig client
by Mark.Deiss＠xerox.com 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Has anyone successfully performed rrd trending using data from an external test from a MrBig Windows client? The MrBig client-internal tests are creating rrd files on the Xymon server. Have a stripped down external test that is staging a file (filename of citrix, no file extension) for delivery using MrBig with the following content: green Fake citrix test users: 49 The "green" is the first line in the file being sent across to the Xymon server and the generated web page looks okay. Also tried messaging using "users 49" in case the Xymon citrix parser was not NCV based. I figure this should process against the stock TEST2RRD definition of citrix on the Xymon server and per the graphs.cfg citrix stanza, looks like the graphing is operating on a users: <number> data set coming in. Not concerned at this point with graphing since the rrd itself is not being created but was concerned that the xymond_rrd code may only be processing against specific citrix value of users I have turned on debugging with the tasks.cfg entry for the rrd-status xymond_rrd to include "--no-cache --debug". I see the windows client delivering the citrix update and the xymond_rrd is reporting seeing the client-citrix message in the rrd-status.log - but nothing else, no creating or updating of a rrd file under <client>/citrix.rrd. The other rrd files are updating and am getting updated web pages for the client citrix message. Have bounced the xymon server ad nauseum, twiddling thumbs for upwards of an hour waiting for rrd file to be created, bouncing the MrBig client too. Are there any additional debug settings for the xymond_rrd channel to get more detail on what is being done with the client-citrix message? What I am after is a using a modified version of Galen Johnson's termuser.pl on Xymonton - wanted to add additional line for tracking disconnected user sessions.

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