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Dropping an entire Host from Xymon
by Pierre.Lalonde＠ca.ebarrette.com 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

I know that the command to get rid of an host in Xymon is... ~/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME" But i dont seem able to do it or adapt it for my Xymon. I get this error message : -bash: /home/it/server/bin/xymon: No such file or directory I made a ls of the home/it directory and got libpng-1.5.2 libxml2-2.6.32 openssl-1.0.0d pango-1.17.5 pcre-8.02 rrdtool-1.4.3 web xymon-4.3.3.tar.gz xymon-4.3.4.tar.gz libpng-1.5.2.tar.gz libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz openssl-1.0.0d.tar.gz pango-1.17.5.tar.gz pcre-8.02.tar.gz rrdtool_1.4.3.orig.tar.gz xymon-4.3.3 xymon-4.3.4 So no server directory.... What i want to do is to remove the history for an host so i can reload it.... It seem to stay purple all the time even if i have restart the BBwin service... reinstall the client... rebooted my Xymon server... Thank you Pierre Lalonde Technicien réseautique Barrette-Chapais Ltée C.P. 248, KM 346 Route 113, Chapais, Qc, CA, G0W 1H0 D: 418.745.2545 F: 418.745.3518 www.batiparbarrette.com<http://www.batiparbarrette.com> [Description : Logo Barrette]

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how to configure xymon server receiving summary info from another xymon server?
by rlhamil2＠gmail.com 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Let's say server a has in its hosts.cfg summary a.All 12.34.56.78 https://a.foo.com/xymon/ How will server b (12.34.56.78) have to be set up to display that overall status? Am I correct in thinking that would that appear as a line with one dot if that's the only summary from "a" being sent to it?

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Auto Acknowledge alert
by Russell.Blumenthal＠stonybrookmedicine.edu 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Is there a way to get a link that when clicked it will auto acknowledge an alert (after the login) with a preset message/time? What I would like to do, ideally, is have a script that emails out the information but also includes a link so that anyone that gets the email can acknowledge the alert just by clicking it. Thanks

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Xymon pull client data setup
by thomas.eckert＠IT-Eckert.de 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Depending on the extent of the security requirements 'ssh-tunnel' may be an alternative. In a nutshell it provides a convenient way to manage an ssh tunnel to clients (opening port 1984 there). Upstream: https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons:ssh_tunnel?s[]=ssh&s[]=tunnel Bashified-version with a few tweaks: http://www.it-eckert.com/software/patches/ssh-tunnel/ More background info on usage (incl. combining 1 tunnel with xymonproxy to provide a "hub" for a bunch of EC2 instances): http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/remote-site-monitoring-with-ssh-tunnel/ http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/combine-ssh-tunnel-with-xymonproxy/ Thomas Am 08.10.2014 02:22 schrieb Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com>: > > also, did you add "pulldata" to the clients in your xymon hosts file. > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote: >> >> I have this working for all my EC2 servers (same issue with security and opening firewall ports back inside). Do you have port open and verified the msgcache service is running on the clients? Also, check the xymon server logs...that's where I found the most helpful info. >> >> >> =G= >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Blake <scuba.blake at gmail.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:17 PM >> To: xymon at xymon.com >> Subject: [Xymon] Xymon pull client data setup >> >> After getting the "piss off" response from security in regards to monitoring systems in the DMZ I need to configure about two dozen systems for pull vs the standard push. >> >> While I have gone through the documentation I am still having a few issues and needed some help. >> >> *Server Changes >> =>updated server/etc/tasks.cfg >> >> [xymonfetch] >> ENABLED >> ENVFILE /app/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg >> CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonfetch --server=10.1.1.73 --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.pid --interval=60 --log-interval=600 --debug >> LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.log >> >> *Client Changes >> =>updated server/etc/clientlaunch.cfg >> >> [msgcache] >> ENABLED >> ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg >> CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.pid --debug --logfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcachedaemon.log --max-age=1200 >> LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.log >> >> # The main client task >> [client] >> ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg >> CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymonclient.sh >> LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonclient.log >> INTERVAL 5m >> >> =>updated server/etc/xymonclient.cfg >> XYMSRV="127.0.0.1" >> >> Any help to get this working is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Blake >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xymon mailing list >> Xymon at xymon.com >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >> >

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Xymon pull client data setup
by scuba.blake＠gmail.com 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

After getting the "piss off" response from security in regards to monitoring systems in the DMZ I need to configure about two dozen systems for pull vs the standard push. While I have gone through the documentation I am still having a few issues and needed some help. *Server Changes =>updated server/etc/tasks.cfg [xymonfetch] ENABLED ENVFILE /app/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonfetch --server=10.1.1.73 --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.pid --interval=60 --log-interval=600 --debug LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.log *Client Changes =>updated server/etc/clientlaunch.cfg [msgcache] ENABLED ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.pid --debug --logfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcachedaemon.log --max-age=1200 LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.log # The main client task [client] ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymonclient.sh LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonclient.log INTERVAL 5m =>updated server/etc/xymonclient.cfg XYMSRV="127.0.0.1" Any help to get this working is greatly appreciated. Thanks Blake

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Solaris 11 Zones iostat problem
by Nick＠pettefar.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Thanks for all your input. Appreciated. Incidentally, zonename produces either "global" or a zone name so not sure what all the scripting argument is all about. Maybe I lost the plot somewhere or other. [ $(zonename) != "global" ] && [ $(uname -r) = "5.11" ] && echo "Solaris 11 zone, best not use iostat and vmstat." Oracle are looking into why Solaris 11 zones go funny with iostat and vmstat. Nick Dublin

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only to alert after 3 failed tries
by rsimion＠transunion.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hi, Is there a way to have Xymon to only alert after the same test failed on a particular node 3 times within a time period? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Rod

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Solaris 11 Zones iostat problem
by Nick＠pettefar.com 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

We are having problems with our Solaris 11 zones; iostat takes a long time and uses considerable CPU when run on the zones so for the interim we want to disable it. What is the best/easiest way to do this please? (iostat on the global behaves normally.) Regards, Nick Pettefar

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Double, triple notifications
by A.Chervonets＠cominder.eu 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

For some tests and hosts I receive several notification copies (identical) - sometimes two, sometimes three. I had reviewed the configuration, but can not detect where is the problem. 1) How can I debug which rule worked out for each copy? 2) Feature request - I suppose it should be quite easy to avoid redundant notification copies before sending, for example using cat (rows-list of recepients) | sort | uniq P.S. XyMon version 4.3.17 on CentOS (64-bit) if this makes sense. Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- SIA CoMinder http://www.cominder.eu/

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Not able to start/stop xymon.sh
by aaronrobinson67＠gmail.com 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

Forgive me if this is a stupid question and for my poor linux skills - I'm learning. I have installed xymon on ubuntu using apt-get install xymon and it has started a bunch of process for me as part of the install. It's created a xymon user. When I try and stop the service using xymon.sh stop it tells me I have to do it as the xymon user. As there is no password assigned to the user I can't su as xymon to start and stop the script. I am able to start and stop it using /etc/init.d/xymon start/stop but not sure if I should be doing it this way. Should I be setting my own password on the xymon account and using it to stop and start? Thanks

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