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Install dnsreg on xymon server
by operaciones＠corpresa.com 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hello, We would like to install the dnsreg script on my xymon server, not on client side, should be from server side, somebody can help me?, i have the script and i move to /home/xymon/server/ext, then where i need to fill with this lines?: [dnsreg] ENVFILE $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/dnsreg.sh LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/dnsreg.log INTERVAL 5m By other side, this lines is correct? Thank you very much.

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Xymon Digest, Vol 31, Issue 27
by s.watkins＠nhm.ac.uk 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

> -----Original Message----- > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:09:33 -0600 > From: Shawn Heisey <hobbit at elyograg.org> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] Two hosts, monitor a service that should be running > on only one of them > Message-ID: <5220D1CD.7000200 at elyograg.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I have a pair of machines running BBWin in central mode. Is there any way in > analysis.cfg to indicate that a particular service exists on both of them but > should only be running on one of them? If that service is running on both > servers or neither server, I want to see a red alarm. > > Thanks, > Shawn Hello Shawn, I have pretty much the same requirement for a couple of the hosts I look after (backup client on distributed disk setup). I haven't implemented my solution in analysis.cfg so this may not be of any use to you. As my central BHX[1] server is a linux box I just run a script that looks in the $XYMSRV/data/logs directory for the <hostname>.procs files of the systems involved. Again, if you're not using a linux/unix central server this may not apply. The routine looks in the $XYMSRV/data/logs/ directory for the <hostname>.procs files of the systems involved. The logfiles are plain text so it scans through the first of the logfiles looking for the process name. If the script finds the process listed, the script scores two (add two to a $TEMPVAR). If it doesn't find a match, then nothing is scored. The script does this again for the second system this time score ONE if it gets a match, zero if there is no match. Now working out the service status is easy. If the score is either one or two then everything is "Green, OK". However if the score if either 3 or zero then "Panic!, Red". (Actually, this is a bit of a fib as my version of the script checks for the exclusivity of two separate processes on each system. Both processes have to be running on the same system, but only one system at a time. So I use the scores 1000, 100, 10 and 1 then check for scores of 1100 or 11 for success). The rest of the script composes the output page and then sends it through bin/bb to the server process. To make sure it all fits nicely together the script is defined in tasks.cfg so it is run by the xymon daemon and generates its own column on the webpages. I should imagine that you could do something similar with wsh if you're $XYMSRV is a windows box although the data directory location may be different. Good luck with getting it working, Steff [1] BHX - B(ig brother)/H(_bbit)/X(ymon) ----- Steff Watkins Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London,SW75BD Systems programmer Email: s.watkins at nhm.ac.uk Infrastructure Team Phone: +44 (0)20 7942 6000 opt 2 ======== "Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - HHGTTG

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Netapp Monitoring
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Anyone using Xymon to monitor their filers? I know there's a perl client on deadcat, but I believe is uses RSH, which is a no go for me. I'm hoping there's something out there like Jeremy's rclient before I go and reinvent the wheel. Jamison Maxwell jamison at newasterisk.com<mailto:jamison at newasterisk.com>

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No RRD / graph if test status is 'clear'
by Wim.Nelis＠nlr.nl 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Hello, Recently I've written an external script, reporting tot Xymon 4.3.7, which measures a throughput and conditionally can perform a test. It seems that if the test status is 'clear', the data in the status message is not passed to the RRD, and thus does not appear in the graph going with this test. Is there a parameter setting to get RRD updated even if the test status is 'clear'? (The test is only possible when a specific traffic pattern is found. If the test cannot be performed, I would like to assign the status 'clear' to this test. Currently the test status is 'green' in this case, making it indistinguishable from the case "the test can be performed and the test result is successful".) Regards, Wim Nelis. ****************************************************************************************************************** The NLR disclaimer is valid for NLR e-mail messages. This message is only meant for providing information. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of the sender. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. Sender accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages. ******************************************************************************************************************

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does xymon have any option to monitor a java app
by ciprian.parfon＠gmail.com 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

Hi May I know if there's anything in XYmon which can allow a java app or maybe tomcat to be monitored? -- Cip

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Netapp Monitoring
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

Great tip with SSH, I appreciate that. I'm having trouble getting it running, though. Do I need to apply the patches? There for hobbit and the paths in the diff reference hobbit and not Xymon. I'm on Xymon 4.3.11. Without the patch I get a message from the script saying it's skipping the filer because it's not in bbhost, however, it is in hosts.cfg. If I need to apply the patch, which I probably do as it seems to have fixed this error in 2008, how do I go about converting it for Xymon? Just find and replace? Jamison Maxwell jamison at newasterisk.com ________________________________________ From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Martin Flemming [martin.flemming at desy.de] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:14 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Netapp Monitoring Hmm, i use it with ssh :-) grep -i ssh ../netapp.ini # asisshowrule = [yes|no] default yes rshcommand = /usr/bin/ssh -x -a -l root cheers, martin On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Jamison Maxwell wrote: > I'm adding the list in. > Because RSH is plaintext. > > > Jamison Maxwell > > > > Mario <rower.master at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why not hobbit-perl-client(netapp.pl) and rsh? > It works pretty well for me. > > > Regards, > Mario > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com> wrote: > > Anyone using Xymon to monitor their filers? I know there's a perl client on deadcat, but I believe is uses RSH, which is a no go for me. I'm hoping there's > something out there like Jeremy's rclient before I go and reinvent the wheel. > > > > > > Jamison Maxwell > jamison at newasterisk.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > >

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MRTG SNMP settings on Windows
by kspringer＠innovateteam.com 31 Aug '13

31 Aug '13

I'm trying to have xymon and MRTG show the network traffic graph for our Windows servers. I've got Xymon with MRTG functioning on an Ubuntu box and it's able to make MRTG graphs for our router network traffic, but when I try to monitor our Windows servers it shows no data in the graphs. I've got the SNMP service running in Windows and I've set the community name, but no data. I've opened up ports 161 & 162 on the firewall too. Here's the error I get in the mrtg log on my xymon box. 2013-08-31 16:40:32: ERROR: Target[mrtg.vm-buzzard.lan][_IN_] ' $target->[3]{$mode} ' did not eval into defined data 2013-08-31 16:40:32: ERROR: Target[mrtg.vm-buzzard.lan][_OUT_] ' $target->[3]{$mode} ' did not eval into defined data I'm sure it's something simple. Please advise. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------ *Kris Springer*

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Bug in Xymon when devmon doesnt pass a virutal name but does pass brackets
by vachon＠sessionm.com 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Given GigabitEthernet #/# which has no alias, xymon will blow up when rendering the html on the first occurrence of: GigiabitEthernet #/# [ Since we didn't have an alias defined, it would bomb out and fail to render the rest of the page from svcstatus.cgi -- Thomas Vachon Principal Operations Architect vachon at sessionm.com

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Serial alarm feeds
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

On 27 August 2013 13:31, KING, KEVIN <KK1051 at att.com> wrote: > No no snmp. It is a very closed system. The messages we get are out of a > serial port to a term server. :-( > I guess I do not know the client tool then. How can I save the files on my > xymon server and use entries in the client config and alert rules to make > if show up under the correct server? Maybe I am getting myself stuck in > the mud, but if the file is on the xymon host how can I process it like it > was on the client? A server is almost always also a client. You should have the Xymon server name in hosts.cfg, yes? Also, the Xymon server can be listed in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg. Just create appropriate entries in those two files for the server and the logfile, and it will report the errors as they appear. The down-side to this is that the errors are assigned to the Xymon server. If you want them assigned to the device name instead, then you will probably have to do something a bit more complex, such as writing a custom script on the Xymon server to do the log analysis and reporting. I don't see a way that you can do this with the built-in log monitoring features. Hmm, here's an idea. You could create a script that simply replicates the log file into a client message, which would be a substitute for the client-local.cfg entry. So then you'd be able to use the standard "LOG" definitions in analysis.cfg to match whatever you want. The easiest way to do this, I think, would be to run a second copy of logfetch on the Xymon server (the standard one is usually run from xymonclient.sh, from the [xymonclient] section of tasks.cfg). The logfetch tool requires a configuration file and a state file as parameters. Normally the config file is simply extracted from client-local.cfg and pushed to the client during the client message interaction, but you can simply create your own. For example (untested), create in $XYMONTMP the file logfetch-special.cfg, containing the following: log:/var/log/mylogfile:10240 ignore THIS ignore THAT Then add the following into tasks.cfg or a new file in tasks.d: [xymonclient-special] NEEDS xymond ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonclient-special.log INTERVAL 5m CMD sh -c '( printf "eagle.example.com.eagle eagle\n[msgs:/var/log/mylogfile]\n"; $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/logfetch $XYMONTMP/logfetch-special.cfg $XYMONTMP/logfetch-special.status ) | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"' This creates a header, using the device's hostname, and a [msgs:] section for the logfile being monitored. Then it uses logfetch to get the latest bunch of lines from the logfile, and filter out any "ignore" entries from the config file logfetch-special.cfg. Finally, all of this is piped into an instance of xymon that creates a client message and sends it to the server. The end result is a client message that should start to generate a "msgs" dot against the device name (assuming you added the device name into hosts.cfg - probably with a "noping" tag). If this works, you can then start using analysis.cfg to have the Xymon server parse the log file from the client data. This is all a bit kludgy. You might prefer to extract the CMD bit into a separate script, and just put the script name after the CMD keyword. J

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Solaris 10 swap not showing on memory alert correctly?
by david.gore＠verizon.com 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Wed Jun 26 16:26:48 GMT 2013 - Memory low Memory Used Total Percentage yellow Physical 23355M 24576M 95% green Swap 106M 35913M 0% >From the client data: [swap] total: 18459352k bytes allocated + 3036456k reserved = 21495808k used, 32308920k available I would expect to see the 21495808k used number? Where is it getting the 106M number? Anyone else seen this on Solaris? ~David

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