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by usaims＠yahoo.com 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hi, I need to monitor multiple ip addresses per node. According to the man pages, it says: conn={best,|worst,}IP1[,IP2...] This adds additional IP-adresses that are pinged during the normal "conn" test. So the normal "conn" test must be enabled (the default) before this tag has any effect. The IP-adresses listed here are pinged in addition to the main IP-address. So I have one host in my bb-hosts that has multiple ip address to test: 10.xxx.xxx.100 www.example.com #CustomTest conn=worst 10.xxx.xxx.123 10.xxx.xxx.124 But I don't see the additional ip(s) being monitored on the web page. Any help will be greatly appreciated. usaims

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Hobbit server is not sending email notifications
by usaims＠yahoo.com 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hobbit server is not sending email notifications. I have verified that mail is working on the ubuntu server by sending a test email from the command line. It was working but I made a change in the hobbit-alerts.cfg and it hasn't worked since even if I revert back to the old configuration. This is what I have in the 'hobbit-alerts.cfg': HOST=xxxx.corp.local SERVICE=http MAIL email at xxxxxxx.com REPEAT=2 Even if I change the mail address to my google address, it won't work. Will somebody point out other stuff to troubleshoot, thanks. usaims

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notifications sent with no alert settings
by sys1002＠yahoo.com 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

I have 3 xymon servers at different locations.. I just turned on CLock ( NTP ) tests in the analysis.cfg for some DB servers. I only have alerts for RED and purple on 1 xymon server. the other 2 have no alerts set up for this page. xymon ver 4.3.11 - I received yellow notifications from 2 different xymon servers for CPU ( CLock - NTP ) . How is that possible ?

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precedence of rules in analysis.cfg
by jfische2＠csc.com 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Please can someone help me regarding the precedence of rules in analysis.cfg? analysis.cfg example to illustrate my questions: #----------------------------------------------------------- HOST=Win32Server DISK C 85 90 DEFAULT DISK * 90 95 CLASS=win32 DISK C 80 90 LOG %.* %error COLOR=yellow LOG eventlog:Application %warning COLOR=yellow IGNORE="%warning .* Symantec AntiVirus .* Could not scan .* files inside .* due to extraction errors encountered by the Decomposer Engines\.Application has encountered an error" #----------------------------------------------------------- Assumption: Host 'Win32Server' is a CLASS=win32 server running in central mode DISK questions: 1. Does Win32Server's C disk go yellow at 85, 90 or 95% ? 2. Is this because of the ORDER of the applying rules (first HOST, then DEFAULT, then CLASS) or is it because HOST is more specific then CLASS and CLASS is more specific then DEFAULT? 3. Does Xymon at all try to find further possibly matching DISK rules after the first matching rule - underneath HOST in this example - has been encountered? LOG questions: 1. If an eventlog message happens to match the 1st of the above listed LOG rules (because it contains 'error'), will the second rule be evaluated at all? 2. And if the 2nd rule should get evaluated, which of the 2 rules would take precedence? (Assuming both rules logically match, but have conflicting effects because of the IGNORE - i.e. a line that matches the IGNORE and hence has also the word 'error' in it. Will it be ignored, because the 2nd rule applies? Or will it show yellow, because the 1st rule applies? And why is this so? 3. The answers to the 2 prior questions will probably already have answered this one: Should specific LOG rules appear before or after the more general ones to give to give the first match precedence? Many thanks Jürgen

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Setting up custom graph to monitor mail queue on postfix
by hobbit＠weiser.dk 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Hi, I using Xymon to monitor a postfix mail server, and want to monitor the different mail queues on it. I have found this script: https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:postfix I have the data comming from the mail server to Xymon server: Mails active: 3 amount equal to last measure. Mails bouncing: 0 amount equal to last measure. Mails in deferred State: 63 amount equal to last measure. Corrupt Mails: 0 amount equal to last measure. Incoming Mails: 0 amount equal to last measure. But I have not succeded in getting the graph to work, I have follow the steps on the wiki site above, and I have also gone though the help file, about costum graphs, in Xymon web site. In xymonserver.cfg have I added: - 'postfix=ncv' to the TEST2RRD string - NCV_postfix="*:GAUGE" Also in graph.cfg have I added: [postfix] FNPATTERN postfix,(.*).rrd TITLE Postfix statistics YAXIS Mail(s) DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:lambda:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %8.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %8.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %8.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %8.1lf (avg)\n But it do not generate the rrd files, I think I have missed something, but I can't figure it out, I hope You can... Regards, Kim

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cleint not reporting to hobbit server
by usaims＠yahoo.com 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Greetings, I have this one linux client that is not reporting 'disk', 'cpu', 'ssh' and the custom external script raid-monitor to the hobbit server. What is reporting is 'conn', 'info', and 'trends'. I installed the client with 'apt-get install hobbit-client' on a ubuntu server. On the hobbitclient.log, it indicates: 2014-08-12 09:16:27 Cannot determine IP address of message recipient 10.218.275.25 2014-08-12 09:16:27 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Cannot resolve hostname /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh: 43: who: Permission denied /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh: 55: /sbin/ifconfig: Permission denied /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh: 64: /sbin/ifconfig: Permission denied 2014-08-12 09:21:27 Cannot determine IP address of message recipient 10.218.275.25 2014-08-12 09:21:27 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Cannot resolve hostname On the clientlaunch.log, it indicates, 2014-08-12 08:51:18 hobbitlaunch starting 2014-08-12 08:51:18 Loading tasklist configuration from /etc/hobbit/clientlaunch.cfg 2014-08-12 08:51:18 Task raid-monitor terminated, status 2 On the hobbit server in the /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts, it indicates: xxx..xxx.xxx.xxx server01 #raid Will somebody lead me in the right direction, thanks in advance. usaims

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Help: how to make testip default behavior?
by feld＠feld.me 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hello, We recently moved our DNS hosting infrastructure to DNS Made Easy. The price is great, the DNS resolution speed is amazing, and it has all the features one could hope for. Except one feature that happens to be a big bug in my opinion: Any query that would normally return an NXDOMAIN instead returns 54.235.159.97 and they direct you to a webpage to tell you that the domain doesn't exist. This was not discovered in our testing. I'm extremely unsettled by this. Turns out we have thousands of entries in hosts.cfg that don't resolve to real hostnames. This is mostly intentional; it's RFC1918 stuff on management VLANs. Unfortunately due to the lack of a "testip" entry Xymon is following this wildcard that is being injected by DNS Made Easy. I've started adding it in batches but this is very tedious. Can I tell xymon globally to behave as if "testip" was set everywhere? Thanks

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new install issue
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

I've got a stable server hosted on AWS and I'm trying to build a new server on my ESXi VM server hosted elsewhere. Both are using Xymon 4.3.17 and both are build on Ubuntu 14.04. I've got Xymon2 up and supposedly configured the same as Xymon1. It's displaying the basic colored webpage with alerts functioning. My problem is that when I click any colored icon to view the drilldown info I get this message. #!/bin/sh # This is a wrapper for the Xymon svcstatus.cgi script . /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/cgioptions.cfg exec /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/svcstatus.cgi $CGI_SVC_OPTS Signature - Kris I tend to think this is an apache2 issue but I can't figure out what it is. I'm comparing Xymon1 and Xymon2 config files and I'm not seeing anything wrong. Anybody have a clue for me? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer

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extend http timeout
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Where and how do I adjust the http timeout? I have some content tests that take a while to respond and I need to extend the time to around 30 seconds. Signature - Kris Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ Kris Springer

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graph with secondary ordinate
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Hi ! I know, it's more a rrd-question, but how could i implement a second ordinate on the right side of the graph e.g. the values of my Check are Waiting: 6369 Running: 4114 Available: 5788 Slot Usage: 71.0780926053905 % and i want to have on the right side the Slot-Usage with percent my graph definition looks like [sges] TITLE BIRD JOBS YAXIS Jobs DEF:running=sges.rrd:Running:AVERAGE LINE2:running#FFCCCC:Number of running jobs COMMENT:\n GPRINT:running:LAST:running Jobs \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:running:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:running:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:running:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n DEF:available=sges.rrd:Available:AVERAGE LINE2:available#000099:Number of available Slots COMMENT:\n GPRINT:available:LAST:available Slots \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:available:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:available:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:available:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n DEF:usage=sges.rrd:SlotUsage:AVERAGE LINE2:usage#8C1717:Usage in % COMMENT:\n GPRINT:usage:LAST:Usage \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:usage:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:usage:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:usage:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n Thanks & cheers martin

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