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Client hostname on server
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Hi, I run 4.3.10 and the client name for my server has always been the same as the server name (xymon). This is not the hostname of the machine. The server machine is also listed elsewhere in hosts.cfg with just the network tests under its actual hostname. I've decided it would be better to have the client tests (cpu, disk, etc.) under the host's real name as well and keep the xymon stuff under the xymon name. Originally I had the actual hostname in hosts.cfg in a CLIENT: tag. I've since removed that next to the host name xymon and moved it to the real host name. However, even after a restart, nothing has changed -- all client tests are still kept up to date under hostname xymon. The client is launched by the server in tasks.cfg as per usual. Any idea why this is happening? Thanks.

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Xymon 4.3.10 compile issue
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Solaris 8 install here. Had a few other small things that I had to fix, but I can't figure this one out. Can anyone tell me what it is bombing on this? In file included from ares__close_sockets.c:17: ares_setup.h:185:1: warning: "AF_INET6" redefined In file included from ./ares_build.h:96, from ares_setup.h:83, from ares__close_sockets.c:17: /usr/include/sys/socket.h:184:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition In file included from ares_private.h:108, from ares__close_sockets.c:25: ares_writev.h:27: error: redefinition of `struct iovec' make[3]: *** [ares__close_sockets.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/export/home/bb/xymon-4.3.10/xymonnet/c-ares' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/bb/xymon-4.3.10/xymonnet/c-ares' make[1]: *** [c-ares/.libs/libcares.a] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/bb/xymon-4.3.10/xymonnet' make: *** [xymonnet-build] Error 2 Thanks Wes

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Services false positive
by MatthewHarris＠air-watch.com 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it? Matthew Harris DC.Ops O | 404.902.4426 C | 678.357.1505 MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> www.air-watch.com<http://www.air-watch.com/> [AirWatch Connect 2013 - Feb. 25-28 - Learn More]<http://www.air-watch.com/connect/barcelona-2013> This communication is confidential and is intended to be privileged pursuant to applicable law. If you are not a designated recipient of this message, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this message or its attachments. Notify the sender by replying to this message and delete or destroy all copies of this message and attachments in all media. Thank you.

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RRD Graphing Issue
by tlewick＠apsaranetworks.com 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

One of my graphs of data that I am getting from devmon, just stopped graphing. I have other graphs for the same device for devmon, and its still graphing, and the xymon graphs for tests like CONN is still working. And I verified the data is still coming back, and nothing has changed via graph definitions or in xymonserver.cfg. Its like xymon just decided to stop graphing for this test. I've even removed the rrd file for one of the hosts in question, and a new RRD file is being generated, but when I click on the graph in the browser, it still shows the old data. Also, the graph update time is updating, and the current value is within the upper/lower bounds of the graph, just no line being displayed anymore. Anyone have any ideas how to go about resolving/troubleshooting this? I am running xymon 4.3.8 and devmon 0.3.1-beta1

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What tests are coming from a client?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi, all... My boss just walked up and asked me "why all the tests aren't available for this host on Xymon?" I had to confess I didn't know the answer and am hoping you can help. The entry for the host in hosts.cfg is: <ip> <hostname> # ssh ntp TRENDS:*,zonestat:zonestatcpu|zonestatmem|zonestatnproc|zonestatsize|zonersssize What shows on the screen is just the results from ntp, ssh, info and trends. For the life of me, I can't get it to display cpu, memory, mem2, iostat, or any of the other usual column "tests". I've tried using the following configuration variations in hosts.cfg, all with the same results: <ip> <hostname> # and <ip> <hostname> # cpu disk iostat iostat2 mem memory ntp ssh TRENDS:*,zonestat:zonestatcpu|zonestatmem|zonestatnproc|zonestatsize|zonersssize but I can't get more than the original four columns mentioned above to populate. It is painfully obvious to me at this point that I do not fully understand the rules at work as to what causes columns to appear / disappear. Help? / Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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Library Errors on Solaris 9
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi all Encountered an interesting problem installing my Xymon client on Solaris 9. I have solved it, but it's interesting enough that I felt it was worth sharing with the list. And maybe get some feedback on other approaches. The client was compiled on Solaris 10, so I was expecting the Solaris binary compatibility thing to make it all "just work" when I copied the client to Solaris 9. But that would be too easy. :-/ Most of the binaries gave this issue. ld.so.1: /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/msgcache: fatal: *libresolv.so.2*: version `SUNW_2.2.2' not found (required by file /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/msgcache) zsh: killed /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/msgcache Looks like *libresolve.so.2* is missing The library is there # grep libresolv.so.2 /var/sadm/install/contents /usr/lib/libresolv.so=./libresolv.so.2 s none SUNWcsl */usr/lib/libresolv.so.2* f none 0755 root bin 316552 9398 1268771224 SUNWcsl /usr/lib/sparcv9/libresolv.so=libresolv.so.2 s none SUNWcslx /usr/lib/sparcv9/libresolv.so.2 f none 0755 root bin 385952 24889 1268771224 SUNWcslx And we have the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set correctly. % echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/svrexp/dvlpr/2.2/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:*/usr/lib* :/opt/cics/lib:/opt/dcelocal/lib:/opt/encina/lib:. So I checked to see if there was another issue, and it turns out it can see libresolv.so.2, but wants a specific version. # ldd /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/msgcache libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 * libresolv.so.2 (SUNW_2.2.2) => (version not found)* libsocket.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1 libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1 librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 libmp.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmp.so.2 libaio.so.1 => /usr/lib/libaio.so.1 libmd5.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmd5.so.1 /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libc_psr.so.1 /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1 Then I recalled hearing about the LD_NOVERSION parameter you can set, which causes the the runtime linker to ignore version requirements. A bit of reading here also helped. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/819-0690/docinfo.html I added the following 2 lines to the top of the ~/client/runclient.sh script *LD_NOVERSION=1 export LD_NOVERSION* Restarted, and it all worked fine. Maybe some of the programmer types can provide us with some feedback on the correctness of this approach, or even provide a better solution, but for now, it's working. Regards Vernon -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory" - General George Patton

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Repeat HTTP-Test for HTTP Response Time ?
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

You could probably do this by adding an alternative HTTP check such as "cont" or "post" or "httpstatus" with the same URL as for the HTTP check. J On 21 February 2013 02:30, Werner Maier <werner at maiers.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a test for HTTP Response Time. > This works ok for most things out of the box. > > Now the problem: > I have a page that will be generated and then cached > into memcache by the application on the webserver. > > I now want to record both - cached and uncached - http response times. > > I can fetch an uncached result with a special get parameter like this: > http://server/?nocache > so that is not a problem. > But for the cached content, I need to ensure that the page is > fetched two times and only record the second request response time. > (the first one might be the one that generates the page and stores > it into the cache so it might have wrong timings). > > Is there a possibility to do this with the onboard xymonnet things > or do I have to write my own test for this? > > kind regards > > Werner Maier > -- > Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Werner Maier > http://www.maiers.de/ > ______________________________**_________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/**mailman/listinfo/xymon<http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon> >

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Date issue with enable/disable page on 4.3.8
by tlewick＠apsaranetworks.com 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

I'm running xymon 4.3.8. Recently I disabled a couple of alerts via the web-page. Two issues, first it works for a while, but then some random and pretty short time later, the page shows red again. Also, the second or third time, I just set the alert out quite a ways, like disable until February 2014, and I noticed xymon reports funky dates like the one below. Disabled until Tue Oct 19 07:48:44 1926 Is this a known bug with xymon in this verison? Thanks, T

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Repeat HTTP-Test for HTTP Response Time ?
by werner＠maiers.de 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi, I'm trying to set up a test for HTTP Response Time. This works ok for most things out of the box. Now the problem: I have a page that will be generated and then cached into memcache by the application on the webserver. I now want to record both - cached and uncached - http response times. I can fetch an uncached result with a special get parameter like this: http://server/?nocache so that is not a problem. But for the cached content, I need to ensure that the page is fetched two times and only record the second request response time. (the first one might be the one that generates the page and stores it into the cache so it might have wrong timings). Is there a possibility to do this with the onboard xymonnet things or do I have to write my own test for this? kind regards Werner Maier -- Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Werner Maier http://www.maiers.de/

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sepparated disk alerts
by aiqueneldar＠gmail.com 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Greetings I don't know if this is the correct forum for this question or more like it, new feature request. How ever I'm gonna post here and hope someone will point me right if this is the wrong place. For the issue at hand. At my company we use Xymon to monitor thousands of servers. And sometimes disks gets filled and thus generates an alert. Sometimes this won't get looked into for a couple of days since our clients have specified that they want to remove data themselves (and not buy more storage). And as several servers have 3 - 8 disk and/or partitions we sometimes have trouble monitoring the other disks since one is already sending an alert. Example: Server1 has 3 monitored partitions of a disk: / /srv/important/data /srv/database with the same limits on all three: 80% -> yellow alert; 90% -> red alert Then if /srv/important/data reaches 82% the client wants us to notify them and they will free up space. This normaly takes around 3 - 5 working days. But they also wants us to monitor /srv/database. And say that 1 day after /srv/important/data gets filled, /srv/database reaches 84%. That will not trigger a new alert in the non-green status view which is what we monitor. The question/request is then as this: Is there a way to get the client to report each disk/partition as a separate alert, so we can disable the alert for one disk while receiving alerts for the other disks/partions. To use the example I want to be able to temporarily set /srv/important/data in disabled mode while still getting alerts from /srv/database I know this could be solved by writing my own script for the client, but that was disapproved of from management as they want as few custom scripts to maintain as possible (we already have dozens of custom scripts). All help and feedback is appreciated, thanks. Kind regards Calle Lejdbrandt

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