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bug report
by lebarber＠gmail.com 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

I've been having a problem when different subpages and subparents share an identifier (under different parents, of course). It seems the pages all render correctly, but the search capability doesn't work correctly. The search will always go to the first page in hosts.cfg that has the duplicate name. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to occur when the duplicate name is the last in the chain. There is, of course, an easy work around for this, but it is rather difficult not to reuse page names in a large installation (production, development, test, etc.). Thanks, Larry Barber

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Uuencoded file atached to xymon status update message
by klaas.eenkhoorn＠vtspn.nl 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Dear All, Is it possible to add a uuencoded file to the status message? Will the file appear as a clickable object in xymon ? Greetingz, Klaas D. Eenkhoorn Senior Beheerder UNIX -------------------------Disclaimer------------------------------- De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n) en zij die van de geadresseerde(n) toestemming kregen dit bericht te lezen. Gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerde(n) is verboden. De informatie in dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) kan vertrouwelijk van aard zijn en kan binnen het bereik vallen van een geheimhoudingsplicht en een verschoningsrecht. -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Xymon client and clientupdate Issue
by alex＠bakarasse.de 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Hello Henrik, thank you for the new client /local/ directory for custom scripts. It is a lot more comfortable to manage many xymon-clients from central now. Clientupdate pulls our scripts to this directory. They pull hosts.cfg, protocols.cfg and other configfiles and generate configfiles with varios variables (XYMONNETWORK,CONFIGCLASS, etc) and write it to xymoncient.d directory. I just had to change some small details to make it work: - client/clientupdate.c symbolic link $XYMONHOME/etc get overwritten and recreated as a directory. Occured on ubuntu 11.04 and newer. -> Change the tar option from "xf -" to "xfh -" helps me. - debian/init-common.sh make directories /etc/xymon and /usr/lib/xymon writabe for xymon user. - add line "directory /etc/xymon/xymonclient.d" to client/xymonclient.cfg. - add line "directory /etc/xymon/clientlaunch.d" to client/clientlaunch.cfg. - add the xymonnet binary to $XYMONHOME/bin directory. We use this to distribute/move network tests to clients just by setting XYMONNETWORK: tags in hosts.cfg on xymon-server. - and a few others... Attatchement: diff to xymon 4.3.7 revision 6803. Is it possible to add these changes into the main branch? Greetings Alex

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Quick Question about log Monitoring
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Does anyone happen to know if there is any behavior I might not be accounting for that would cause a logfile that is configured in hobbit-clients.cfg to alert as yellow to later turn red after some specified time/incidents threshold? This is something that should have been going between green and yellow a number of times. Instead, it eventually ended up red after what looks like 15 mins at yellow. If not, I guess I have to look elsewhere (might be another keyword or something is subsequently picking it up as red or who knows). This is 4.2.3 so no flapping detection or any of that. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk80OIkACgkQmb+gadEcsb7AvQCg3tHVHHRwIZYPZnXqIr7a9l37 iTMAn1jbkGCZJgLvA3wycWKeTvjYqDED =sYZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Feature request: CLIENT-LOCAL.CFG - combine hosts and ostype definitions
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

In CLIENT-LOCAL.CFG told: "When deciding which section to send to a client, Xymon will first look for a section named after the hostname of the client; if such a section does not exist, it will look for a section named by the operating system of the client. So you can configure special configurations for individual hosts, and have a default configuration for all other hosts of a certain type." It would be very usefull to be possible to merge both host and OS type log files, etc definitions. There are files present on any host of each type such as OS logs: /var/log/messages etc. And in most cases we need to monitor them. And there are also host-specific files, for example DB/APP logs - that we define for each host. Since I had added per-host entry - my log files defined by OS type - not checked anymore. But we need it!. I know - it is easy to just add another lne to host definition, but it would be nice possibility to merge definitions already done for OS-type.

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DB Monitoring scipt
by Venkatesh_S04＠infosys.com 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi All , We are trying to write some custom scripts to monitor databases .The dbcheck script is great but is also quite complex to understand .Is there a simple script that monitors a single metric or couple of them which is well documented . We would like to use that script to understand and customize as per our requirement . Thanks a lot for your help , Regards, Venkatesh **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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XyMon msg metric - how to check log entries only since last check?
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

One my friend using old Hobbit 4.x version told that it always check new entries only. I am using XyMon 4.3.4. Can anyone test your versions/installation for this behaviour? In clientclient-local.cfg I has found: # The following configuration items are currently possible: # "log:FILENAME:MAXDATA" # Monitor the text-based logfile FILENAME, and report back at most MAXDATA bytes. The Xymon client will # only report back entries generated during the past 30 minutes, so MAXDATA is an upper limit. But my exprience show - it just reads up to MAXDATA and analyse and show all, not just last 30 min. Or may be it expected timestamp in file in some known format? If yes, then more questions: a) Is it possible to define ather timestamp formats xymon can understand? b) is it possible to change check interval 30 min to some other - for ALL logs/hosts or just some? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- http://www.cominder.eu/ On 05.02.2012 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: > Is it possible to setup xymon to check log-file (msg metric) only for > new entries since last check (or 5 min)? > For now I see it is only possible to specify how much data in log-file > xymon will parse. > But, depending on activities it can be big or small - so the same bad > entry can be reported for 2 or more check intervals and some (when quite > much activities in log-file) can be missed. > > Really I do not realise how it can be implemented w/o writing timestamp > tags to that log-file, > but may be You know some secret? > > -- > Best regards, > > Andrey Chervonets > ------------------------- > SIA CoMinder > www:http://www.cominder.eu/

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FW: DB Monitoring scipt
by Venkatesh_S04＠infosys.com 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi All , We are trying to write some custom scripts to monitor databases .The dbcheck script is great but is also quite complex to understand .Is there a simple script that monitors a single metric or couple of them which is well documented . We would like to use that script to understand and customize as per our requirement . Thanks a lot for your help , Regards, Venkatesh **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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Disable one service on all machines
by schritte＠hebis.uni-frankfurt.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi Michael, that is possible, of course, I was just curious if there is a build-in solution. And it is, even within the web interface, Malcolm showed me (thanks) Rolf > Write a script that reads bb-hosts to generate a list of hostnames, > and loop through them calling your disable > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Rolf Schrittenlocher > <schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to disable one service on all machines temporarily. For > one machine I use > ./bb $BBDISP "disable `hostname`.<service> some text like 12h > night an weekend no test" > Of course I can do this for every host but I wonder if there is a > one-liner for disabling the service on all machines. I read in an > older posting that the web-interface hobbit-enadis.sh should show > "ALL" as an option both for hosts and tests, but in our case > (xymon 4.3.0) it doesn't show an option "ALL" in the field > "hosts" but only in "tests", > > thanks for hints > > Rolf > > -- > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > Rolf Schrittenlocher > > HeBIS-IT, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt > Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 28817 > LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de> > Persoenlich: schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de > <mailto:schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de> > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com <mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Rolf Schrittenlocher HeBIS-IT, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 28817 LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de Persoenlich: schritte at hebis.uni-frankfurt.de

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Blog entry about Big Brother
by sean＠maclawran.ca 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Guys: I'm no longer with Quest, and for those who don't know me, I'm the guy that wrote the original Big Brother. If you were an old brother, you can see what happened in the blog entry here: http://blog.maclawran.ca/what-next And a great big thanks to Henrik for keeping the community going. Ironic - I may end up having to use *your* software :) Take care guys! -- Sean MacGuire sean at maclawran.ca Key West +1 305 390 0888 The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay

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