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[External] Re: Errors after upgrade to 4.3.29
by zak.beck＠accenture.com 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

Hi Japheth Thread resurrection, sorry, but some ~18 months later I think I may have got to the bottom of John's issue (as I have a similar issue). To re-cap, this issue is the error "Checking criteria for host 'whatever', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire". This happens on startup and also if you run xymond_alert. It happens if you use the directory directive in hosts.cfg. Originally it was reported on Ubuntu 16, but I have it on RHEL 7 so OS is not a factor. I've been trying to get to a minimal test case for this, so I can replicate it with a simple hosts.cfg: page SSL_CERT SSL Certificates title SSL Certificates subparent SSL_CERT SSL_CERT_ALL All SSL Certs on one page directory /home/xymon/server/etc/include_ssl/a directory /home/xymon/server/etc/include_ssl/z That's it, that's the entire content of hosts.cfg (apart from comments). I have a couple of files in /home/xymon/server/etc/include_ssl/z but NOT in /a. If I run xymond_alert --test for a host defined in one of the files in /z, I get the error. If I drop a file in the empty /a directory, and re-run xymond_alert --test for a host defined in /z, it works perfectly. If I remove the file in /a and repeat, the error comes back. The file I drop in can be a file with one line (a comment) - provided there is a file, the error does not occur. On my "proper" hosts file, which has several hundred hosts and 30-40 directory statements, I have this issue. I checked the included directories and put a one-line file containing a comment in the empty ones. The issue is resolved. Therefore it seems likely that this error occurs when you have a directory included but it is empty. Thanks Zak -----Original Message----- From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Rothlisberger, John R. via Xymon Sent: 06 September 2019 13:33 To: Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] [External] Re: Errors after upgrade to 4.3.29 _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.xymon.com_mailman… ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. Your privacy is important to us. Accenture uses your personal data only in compliance with data protection laws. For further information on how Accenture processes your personal data, please see our privacy statement at https://www.accenture.com/us-en/privacy-policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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Encryption for xymon client to server
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Are we any closer to getting encryption from client to server? I know there was at least the start of it in the 4.3.99 development branch. Ralph Mitchell

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show RRD Graph based on daily values
by spijkerfestijn＠gmail.com 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

I want to display a graph with values that change only once a day. The check is a clientside script in which te sslstatus of a website is calculated I translate the values (T, U, F, E, D, C, B, A-, A and A+) into a percentage default=0, E=25, D=50, C=75, B=80 and A-=90 A=95 and A+=100 when I run the testsscript every 5 minutes the graph will appear nice. but when I run the script once or twice a day nothing wil appear. Is it possible to get a graph without writing a script that checks every 5 minutes?

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Weird MSGS issue
by solitaryr＠gmail.com 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

You don't have multiple xymon servers configured in xymon or the same hostname in DNS multiple times by any chance? =G= On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:07 PM Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Neal, Jonathan W" <wes.neal at verizon.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:48:42 -0500 > Subject: Weird MSGS issue > Normally a critical message stays "red" for 30 minutes. I have had no > issues with this in using Xymon/Hobbit/BB. I just added some new log > alerts for 6 hosts though and they are clearing after 5 minutes for some > reason. I can't figure out why. Anyone point me in the right direction? > > [image: image.png] > > > Thanks! > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon" <xymon at xymon.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:48:42 -0500 > Subject: [Xymon] Weird MSGS issue > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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Weird MSGS issue
by wes.neal＠verizon.com 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Normally a critical message stays "red" for 30 minutes. I have had no issues with this in using Xymon/Hobbit/BB. I just added some new log alerts for 6 hosts though and they are clearing after 5 minutes for some reason. I can't figure out why. Anyone point me in the right direction? [image: image.png] Thanks!

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ulimits or sysctl.conf settings?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi, Is there any recommendations on different ulimit and sysctl.conf settings for the newest Xymon version? (RH 7.9 for me) Back in the day when I installed Xymon first, I remember setting both to something non-standard, but I cant find any documentation about it now - and the archive-link in "install.html": http://www.xymon.com/archive/2005/08/msg00183.html - doesnt work and I cant find the post on the archive. What OS tweaks do I need to make, to make Xymon happy these days? Regards, Carl

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Xymon 4.3.30-1 memory issues and core dumps
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Hi, After running for 5 hrs on my new installation on a RH 7.9, xymond has already allocated 11.5GB of memory... Last night it core-dumped multiple times, and threw "Cannot allocate memory" in multiple xymon logfiles, ala "newstrbuffer: Attempt to allocate failed (initialsize=1009956863): Cannot allocate memory". Monitoring 1900 hosts currently - on my primary system I do this with only 4 GB of memory with no issues. Any idea where I should start to look - it's a terabithia installation. Heres a couple of the core-dumps gdb'ed: Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/xymon/xymongen...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/libexec/xymon/xymongen.debug...done. done. [New LWP 10035] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `xymongen --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=4 --report --max-eventtime=1440 --max-ac'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007f8bb64aa387 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55 55 return INLINE_SYSCALL (tgkill, 3, pid, selftid, sig); (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f8bb64aa387 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55 #1 0x00007f8bb64aba78 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90 #2 0x0000561f05bf6115 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 strbuf_addtobuffer (buf=0x0, newtext=0x561f0701db60 "extcombo", ' ' <repeats 192 times>..., newlen=2000) at strfunc.c:115 #5 0x0000561f05bf79b5 in addtobufferraw (buf=<optimized out>, newdata=<optimized out>, bytes=<optimized out>) at strfunc.c:184 #6 0x0000561f05c00d32 in combo_start () at sendmsg.c:908 #7 0x0000561f05bd7ccb in main (argc=6, argv=0x7ffe092839a8) at xymongen.c:706 Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/libexec/xymon/xymonnet.debug...done. done. [New LWP 15437] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --dns-timeout=3 --dnslog=/var/log/xymo'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007f96383f0387 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55 55 return INLINE_SYSCALL (tgkill, 3, pid, selftid, sig); (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f96383f0387 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55 #1 0x00007f96383f1a78 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90 #2 0x0000000000422d95 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 strbuf_addtobuffer (buf=0x0, newtext=0x2a99910 "extcombo", ' ' <repeats 192 times>..., newlen=2000) at strfunc.c:115 #5 0x0000000000424635 in addtobufferraw (buf=<optimized out>, newdata=<optimized out>, bytes=<optimized out>) at strfunc.c:184 #6 0x000000000042d9b2 in combo_start () at sendmsg.c:908 #7 0x00000000004064dc in main (argc=6, argv=0x7ffc4e0055d8) at xymonnet.c:2554 Seems like all core-dumps are from xymonnet and xymongen... Where do I start? Regards, Carl Melgaard

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new feature request
by ve2cii＠canasoft.net 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

???? Yep, it is working just fine, no issues, ?? Thank you for your help. On 12/14/20 10:48 AM, Torsten Richter wrote: > I remember that I had to add '--tooltips=never' to the line > XYMONGENOPTS=... in xymonserver.cfg to make it work. > Otherwise the comment was only visible when hovering over the server name. > > I had it working since 4.3.17 but I don't know if IE could be an issue here. > > Just checked my local installation with XYmon 4.3.29 and it is also > displayed next to the server name in IE (11). > Edge should work as it is based on Chromium. > > Regards, > Torsten > > On 14.12.2020 16:26, Frank wrote: >> ?? Hi, >> >> ??? I checked the man page and what you say is "supposed" to work, however >> I see no comment that I put in the hosts file on the display page. IE >> does not >> seem to work. I tried both with quotes and then no white spaces,,, without >> quotes. >> ?? I am using version 4.3.28 >> >> On 12/14/20 9:43 AM, Torsten Richter wrote: >>> Hi Frank, >>> >>> you might want to take a look at "COMMENT" which might already do what >>> you want. >>> >>> A line in your hosts.cfg would then look like this: >>> >>> 208.145.18.16?? frank.cronomagic.biz # COMMENT:"for_my_machine" >>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info >>> >>> and then your server would be displayed like this: >>> >>> frank.cronomagic.biz (for_my_machine) Test1 Test2 etc. >>> >>> HTH >>> Torsten >>> >>> On 14.12.2020 15:30, Frank wrote: >>>> ???? Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> ??????? I have a request for a new feature: >>>> >>>> On the hosts,cfg page, there should be a place to the right of the FQDN >>>> for a description field. >>>> This field should show up on the main xymon page. >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> >>>> ??????? IP????????????????????? FQDN Description >>>> 208.145.18.16 ? frank.cronomagic.biz??? for_my_machine?? # >>>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info >>>> >>>> And this should display on the main page. >>>> -- sysadm cronomagic.com e-mail ve2cii at canasoft.net POWERED BY LINUX

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new feature request
by bb4＠richter-it.net 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

resending to list On 14.12.2020 16:48, Torsten Richter wrote: > I remember that I had to add '--tooltips=never' to the line > XYMONGENOPTS=... in xymonserver.cfg to make it work. > Otherwise the comment was only visible when hovering over the server name. > > I had it working since 4.3.17 but I don't know if IE could be an issue here. > > Just checked my local installation with XYmon 4.3.29 and it is also > displayed next to the server name in IE (11). > Edge should work as it is based on Chromium. > > Regards, > Torsten > > On 14.12.2020 16:26, Frank wrote: >> ?? Hi, >> >> ??? I checked the man page and what you say is "supposed" to work, however >> I see no comment that I put in the hosts file on the display page. IE >> does not >> seem to work. I tried both with quotes and then no white spaces,,, without >> quotes. >> ?? I am using version 4.3.28 >> >> On 12/14/20 9:43 AM, Torsten Richter wrote: >>> Hi Frank, >>> >>> you might want to take a look at "COMMENT" which might already do what >>> you want. >>> >>> A line in your hosts.cfg would then look like this: >>> >>> 208.145.18.16?? frank.cronomagic.biz # COMMENT:"for_my_machine" >>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info >>> >>> and then your server would be displayed like this: >>> >>> frank.cronomagic.biz (for_my_machine) Test1 Test2 etc. >>> >>> HTH >>> Torsten >>> >>> On 14.12.2020 15:30, Frank wrote: >>>> ???? Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> ??????? I have a request for a new feature: >>>> >>>> On the hosts,cfg page, there should be a place to the right of the FQDN >>>> for a description field. >>>> This field should show up on the main xymon page. >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> >>>> ??????? IP????????????????????? FQDN Description >>>> 208.145.18.16 ? frank.cronomagic.biz??? for_my_machine?? # >>>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info >>>> >>>> And this should display on the main page. >>>> >> > -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?search=0x899093AC&op=get

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new feature request
by ve2cii＠canasoft.net 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

??? Hi everyone, ?????? I have a request for a new feature: On the hosts,cfg page, there should be a place to the right of the FQDN for a description field. This field should show up on the main xymon page. Example: ?????? IP????????????????????? FQDN Description 208.145.18.16 ? frank.cronomagic.biz??? for_my_machine?? # NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info And this should display on the main page. -- sysadm cronomagic.com e-mail ve2cii at canasoft.net POWERED BY LINUX

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