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custom hostnames problem
by deepakdeore2004＠gmail.com 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

I have xymon clients with the weird name, i tried adding CLIENT:name as mentioned in http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2005/07/msg00362.html, but still the new name is not appearing. 10.x.x.x diff-host-name-app01.example.com # noconn nofiles nobbd NOCOLUMNS:files CLASS:STG CLIENT:app01-stg but the new hostname is not coming. I know we can use MACHINEDOTS but that i dont want because for ping test we use custom script which fails if hostname after 10.x.x.x is changes as per MACHINEDOTS variable.

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root login script
by massimo.morsiani＠gilbarco.com 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi all, is there anyone that is using one script to check if root user is logged on Unix/Linux machines? Or is there anyone that is using "xymond_rootlogin.pl" and can explain me how to use it? Thanks in advance for the support. Regards. Massimo Morsiani Information Technology Dept. ------ Gilbarco S.r.l. via de' Cattani, 220/G 50145 Firenze, Italy tel: +39-055-30941 fax: +39-055-318603 email: massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com web: http://www.gilbarco.it  Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and delete this message. The sender disclaims that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any agreement; provided that the foregoing does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment.

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differentiating host types in analysis.cfg
by sholmes42＠mac.com 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I want to be able to differentiate in analysis.cfg between debian servers and debian containers (not being a debian familiar I don't know what the non container version would be called). I looked at CLASS: in the hosts.cfg man page and it says that is used for log-file monitoring, however, in the analysis.cfg man page it talks about using CLASS= as a host selector. Will it work? I haven't tried it, but will be doing so unless someone here says not to. Specifically I want to check for PROC ntpd on regular debian servers and on redhat, but not check for it on debian containers since it can't run on them. Debian servers and redhat servers both report their class as linux so If I can override that on the containers and make it something else I think I can do what I want. Thanks for any insight. Steve Purdue University

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Server side external scripts not working
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

The server has the hosts.cfg file, clients do not. It’s trying to access it. Without knowing what the script is doing, I can’t guess what’s happening. Don’t take the list out of your emails. I don’t know all the answers. Others might. From: Payal Gupta [mailto:payalg at cdac.in] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:47 AM To: Root, Paul T Subject: RE: [Xymon] Server side external scripts not working Also for the local xymon client running on xymon server, the test is running fine. But not for the rest of the xymon clients. Not able to understand why? On April 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>> wrote: Probably something in the xymonserver.cfg file. From: Payal Gupta [mailto:payalg at cdac.in] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:43 AM To: Root, Paul T Subject: RE: [Xymon] Server side external scripts not working No, but i have not used any email address anywhere in my script. On April 18, 2013 at 1:58 PM "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>> wrote: Looks like you have an email address where a hostname/ip address should be. The “Could not connect to Xymon daemon at xymon-server-ip:1984 (Connection refused)” is kind of the giveaway. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Payal Gupta Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:01 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] Server side external scripts not working Hi All, I am using xymon 4.3.10. I have a server side external script in ~xymon/server/ext/. I have added an entry for the script in ~xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg as follows: [test] ENVFILE $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/test LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/test.log INTERVAL 6m I have made an entry for the same in hosts.cfg as well. In browser, a new column is updated with this test name but nothing is being shown other than a horizontal line. When i restarted the xymon server, i got this in my LOGFILE : 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed) 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> Could not connect to Xymon daemon at xymon-server-ip:1984 (Connection refused) 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> Recipient 'xymon-server-ip', timeout 15 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> 1st line: 'config hosts.cfg' 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 5 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load I am not able to understand the problem. Is there anything I had left? Thanks and Regards, Payal Gupta Project Engineer National PARAM Supercomputing Facility CDAC Pune Maharashtra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Server side external scripts not working
by payalg＠cdac.in 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi All, I am using xymon 4.3.10. I have a server side external script in ~xymon/server/ext/. I have added an entry for the script in ~xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg as follows: [test] ENVFILE $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/test LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/test.log INTERVAL 6m I have made an entry for the same in hosts.cfg as well. In browser, a new column is updated with this test name but nothing is being shown other than a horizontal line. When i restarted the xymon server, i got this in my LOGFILE : 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed) 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> Could not connect to Xymon daemon at xymon-server-ip:1984 (Connection refused) 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> Recipient 'xymon-server-ip', timeout 15 2013-04-17 16:14:02 -> 1st line: 'config hosts.cfg' 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 5 2013-04-17 16:14:02 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load I am not able to understand the problem. Is there anything I had left? Thanks and Regards, Payal Gupta Project Engineer National PARAM Supercomputing Facility CDAC Pune Maharashtra ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies and the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited and appropriate legal action will be taken. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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graphing problem
by Phil.Crooker＠orix.com.au 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I'm a graphing newbie and can't get the graph to work. Could anyone please help? This is to measure internet latency, the test is called "internet". This is running over four hosts, so we should be getting four sets of graphs. The rrd file is created, but I just see NaN values, no data is being recorded. many thanks, Phil I've got the following data coming in from an ext script every 10 mintues: google : 0.15 businessspectator : 1.28 bloomberg : 0.05 ------------------------------------- I set this up as a gauge graph. Here is one of the entries: <ds> <name> google </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> NaN </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> U </last_ds> <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 172 </unknown_sec> </ds> ---------------------------------------------------- Here are the config files. in xymonserver.cfg: I added this to the GRAPHS string: internet=ncv and put in this line after that NCV_internet="google:GAUGE,businessspectator:GAUGE,bloomberg:GAUGE" ------------------------------------- graphs.cfg: [internet] TITLE Internet Latency YAXIS Seconds DEF:google=internet.rrd:google:GAUGE DEF:businessspectator=internet.rrd:businessspectator:GAUGE DEF:bloomberg=internet.rrd:bloomberg:GAUGE LINE2:google#00CCCC:Inode cache LINE2:businessspectator#FF0000:Dentry cache LINE2:bloomberg#00FF00:In COMMENT:Time to load home page in seconds.\n

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CLI Event Report
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi guys I know this has been asked before, and probably answered, but I can't seem to find it on the list. I would like to pull a list of past events for the last 24 hours (or 72 for Monday) of events using the CLI. Management is looking for the incident list, and pulling it out manually from the GUI every day offends my sense of laziness. (I believe it is morally wrong for you to do any repetitive task the computer is perfectly capable of doing for itself.) Thanks Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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graphing problem
by Phil.Crooker＠orix.com.au 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

>> should be getting four sets of graphs. The rrd file is created, but I just see NaN values, no data is being recorded. > First, it sometimes takes a few cycles for RRD entries to show up. Although I suspect this is normally for non-GAUGE data sources. This has been running for several days. > Check your RRD file permissions and make sure that Xymon can write to them. If they contain nothing but NaNs, you could delete them and see if they get recreated. Yes they are recreated. >> in xymonserver.cfg: >> I added this to the GRAPHS string: internet=ncv >> and put in this line after that >> NCV_internet="google:GAUGE,businessspectator:GAUGE,bloomberg:GAUGE" > Good. Also, you might need to add "internet=ncv" to TEST2RRD. It is now in both GRAPHS and TEST2RRD and has gone through several cycles... Probably something simple I missed out. thanks.

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clustered xymonserver using XYMONSERVERS
by Rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi, Just want to let anyone out there know how I worked out a cheap and easy xymon server "cluster" I really have no idea if this is the correct way of doing this but it works flawlessly for me. I had 1 xymon server, pxym01, running Solaris 10 and xymon 4.3.10 I wanted to get another "backup server" if this one fails. (it has some disk issues which resolves in recoverable errors at the moment) This is a brief step by step how I configured a second xymon server. * Install Solaris 10 on new server (pxym02) * Install all pre-requisite for running a Xymon server, this should be the same as the existing pxym01. * Change ALL xymon-clients to use XYMONSERVERS Vi /usr/local/xymon/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg XYMSRV="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Xymon server XYMSERVERS="192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2" # IP of multiple Xymon servers. XYMSRV must be "0.0.0.0". * copy /etc/apache2/httpd.conf from pxym01 to pxym02 and change it to suit pxym02, you need f.ex. change the port and ip-address * copy /usr/local/xymon directory from pxym01 to pxym02 (this obviously requires same arch and OS on both servers) * change /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/hosts on both xymon servers 192.168.1.1 pxym01 # bbd http://pxym01:8082/xymon/xymon.html 192.168.1.2 pxym02 # bbd http://pxym02:8083/xymon/xymon.html * change /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg on pxym02, change ip and xymonserver name * start apache2 * start xymon on pxym02 As we copied the whole xymon directory all history is there, graphs and the lot. One funny thing I noticed, is it a bug? The CPU test also checks the time difference and if the time diffs more than 10secs between xymonserver and xymonclient the test goes yellow. In the list of XYMSERVERS="192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2" it will check with the first one in the list not the second?? In this example if I take down 192.168.1.1 the cpu time diff test goes yellow on 192.168.1.2. If I swap them around XYMSERVERS="192.168.1.2 192.168.1.1" it works again. Have fun. - Roland Soderstrom

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client-local.cfg backticks expression help
by spah＠syntec.co.uk 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Using Jeremy's amazing example here http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2013-January/036615.html I'm trying to do something a little simpler... Basically, if the line contains "debug:" replace it and the rest of the line with "DEBUG LINE DETECTED AND REPLACED". Otherwise just output the log normally. Here is what I have tried and the part within the backticks works fine (if I exclude the exec part that hangs my bash session) from a command line to produce the name of the file: log:`exec 2>/dev/null; F=/path/to/file/log.log; T=/tmp/substitutedlog.log; C=$(sed 's/debug:.*/DEBUG LINE DETECTED AND REPLACED/' $F > $T); echo $T`:1024 log:`exec 2>/dev/null; F=/path/to/file/log.log; T=/tmp/substitutedlog.log; sed 's/debug:.*/DEBUG LINE DETECTED AND REPLACED/' $F > $T; echo $T`:1024 log:`exec 2>/dev/null; F=/path/to/file/log.log; T=/tmp/substitutedlog.log; sed "s/debug:.*/DEBUG LINE DETECTED AND REPLACED/" $F > $T; echo $T`:1024 log:`F=/path/to/file/log.log; T=/tmp/substitutedlog.log; sed "s/debug:.*/DEBUG LINE DETECTED AND REPLACED/" $F > $T; echo $T`:1024 But /usr/share/xymon-client/logs/xymonclient.log gets this: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file Or this: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file ...depending on whether I use single or double quotes in the sed expression. Kind regards, SebA

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