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Android 2.2 App on 2.3.3
by Munsch＠phillycarshare.org 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Rob Munsch <Munsch at phillycarshare.org> wrote: Forking the Android thread as this is a different direction :) I've Android 2.3.3 on a Motorola Droid 2 Global and figured, what the hey, let's try it: it installs from the market, and while the first version crashed on startup, it accepts settings and runs. But when I open it (with my settings), it detects my Xymon version correctly but gives only STATUS: UNKNOWN. I think it's hitting my site - I see at the top above Status xymon.mydoma.in:8080 (4.3.0) And I am indeed running 4.3.0. I can also hit the site from the phone's browser with no issues. - What could be so different from .2 to .3.3 that could break it like this..? - Is there anything I can do or info I could send you that would help? The app works just fine on my Atrix with Android 2.3.4. Can you see your web server logs?? Anything in the error log?? What page request shows in the access log?? Ralph Mitchell Hmm, no entries except maybe Apache doesn't like how the app is trying to access things... this is in error.log: Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/ That's the only log entry remotely near my hitting Refresh in the app. Nothing in the Xymon logs, nothing in Access either (which fits with the app being negged).

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critical systems page
by scerydog＠gmail.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

We are running xymon 4.2.3 on Solaris 10 within a data center of about 1000 servers. Would like to create a custom non-green screen that has only certain servers on it. So that the all windows servers are on one critical systems page and then all the unix servers will be on another page. I found a previous email about it, but it doesn't explain it fully. Wondering what steps I am missing! I have add this script to the cgi-bin directory, but not seeing any on the web page. #!/bin/sh # Pick only hosts on the "windows" page PAGE="windows" # Get red ones as priority 1 xymon 127.0.0.1 \ "xymondboard color=red fields=hostname,testname page=$PAGE" | \ awk '{ print $1 "||||1|||" }' > /tmp/crit_$$.cfg # Yellow ones get priority 2 xymon 127.0.0.1 \ "xymondboard color=yellow fields=hostname,testname page=$PAGE" | \ awk '{ print $1 "||||2|||" }' >> /tmp/crit_$$.cfg # Build the webpage . /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/cgioptions.cfg $XYMONHOME/bin/criticalview.cgi $CGI_CRITVIEW_OPTS \ --config=/tmp/crit_$$.cfg rm -f /tmp/crit_$$.cfg exit 0 Thanks -Scott Hanson

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Active Directory monitoring
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I would like to know the best way to monitoring the Microsoft Active Directory, I've found BBdcdiags.vbs for BBWin, anything else around ? Thanks

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compilation error of xymon on solaris 10 sparc
by sailesh.mohabeer＠mns.intnet.mu 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I am compiling xymon 4.3.5 on solaris 10 sparc. Please see error below. bash-3.00# gmake CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DSunOS" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="-I/usr/local/include" SSLFLAGS="-DHAVE_OPENSSL=1" SSLINCDIR="-I/usr/local/ssl/include " SSLLIBS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" LIBRTDEF="-lrt" XYMONTOPDIR="/xymon/hobbit" XYMONLOGDIR="/var/log/xymon" XYMONHOSTNAME="T1000" XYMONHOSTIP="192.168.10.128" XYMONHOSTOS="sunos" gmake -C lib all gmake[1]: Entering directory `/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -c -o loadhosts.o loadhosts.c loadhosts_file.c: In function `load_hostnames': loadhosts_file.c:126: warning: 'insavchar' might be used uninitialized in this function ar cr libxymon.a osdefs.o acklog.o availability.o calc.o cgi.o cgiurls.o clientlocal.o color.o crondate.o digest.o encoding.o environ.o errormsg.o eventlog.o files.o headfoot.o xymonrrd.o holidays.o htmllog.o ipaccess.o loadalerts.o loadhosts.o loadcriticalconf.o locator.o links.o matching.o md5.o memory.o misc.o msort.o netservices.o notifylog.o readmib.o reportlog.o rmd160c.o sendmsg.o sha1.o sha2.o sig.o stackio.o strfunc.o suid.o timefunc.o timing.o tree.o url.o ranlib libxymon.a || echo "" ar cr xymonclient.a osdefs.o cgiurls.o color-client.o crondate.o digest.o encoding.o environ-client.o errormsg.o holidays.o ipaccess.o loadhosts.o md5.o memory.o misc.o msort.o rmd160c.o sendmsg.o sha1.o sha2.o sig.o stackio.o strfunc.o suid.o timefunc-client.o tree.o locator.o ranlib xymonclient.a || echo "" gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -DSTANDALONE -o loadhosts loadhosts.c ./libxymon.a -lrt loadhosts_file.c: In function `load_hostnames': loadhosts_file.c:126: warning: 'insavchar' might be used uninitialized in this function Undefined first referenced symbol in file recv ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) getservbyname ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) gethostbyname ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) socket ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) getsockopt ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) connect ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) inet_aton ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) inet_ntoa ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) shutdown ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to loadhosts collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[1]: *** [loadhosts] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/lib' gmake: *** [lib-build] Error 2 Regards, Sailesh

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Listening on Multiple IPs
by chris.ahrens＠macys.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, My Xymon server has 3 IP addresses that I want to spread out my incoming status messages on. I did not use the --listen so that xymond would come up to use 0.0.0.0:1984 and netstat shows it listening on 0.0.0.0:1984, but when I look at the network traffic 99.9% of it is on eth0. My client servers are using the dns entry of the Xymon server and dns has all 3 IP addresses of the Xymon server associated correctly. Any suggestions of what I may be doing wrong on the client or server? Christopher Ahrens Macy's Systems & Technology Off: (440) 233-7162 x3122 chris.ahrens at macys.com

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Anyone using Xymon to monitor Linux LVM volumes?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Before I invent the wheel, wondering if anyone's got a test going for linux LVM volumes? Perhaps using lvdisplay --all, or vgs/vgdisplay ? (I am not so familiar with LVM, have used Solaris SVM and Veritas and zfs and assorted storage devices) thanks Betsy

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Android 2.2 App
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi there, nice to see there's a discussion starting about an API. I wasn't aware of the [hobbit|xymon]dboard command, but after a few tests, I found an hobbitdxboard on my (obviously) older hobbit/xymon server. I don't know if that xboard command made it into newer xymon, it returns a self-explanatory XML structure, which could be easily parsed. Put an additional XML Header, add a DTD and you're finally done Inspired by your scriptlet, I've done a very similar one: #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/xml" echo "" /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb localhost "hobbitdxboard $QUERY_STRING" -- Stephan Seitz Senior System Administrator netz-haut GmbH multimediale kommunikation Zweierweg 22 97074 Würzburg Telefon: 0931 2876247 Telefax: 0931 2876248 Web: www.netz-haut.de Amtsgericht Würzburg – HRB 10764 Geschäftsführer: Michael Daut, Kai Neugebauer Am Donnerstag, den 03.11.2011, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Ralph Mitchell: I was just thinking that xymondboard might be a good starting point for an API. I just put a very simple CGI script on my server: #!/bin/bash echo "Content-Type: text/plain" echo "" /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondboard $QUERY_STRING" then called it using curl: curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=red" curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=yellow" curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=purple" Piping those through "wc" I get a total of 3305 bytes for all three. Fetching the non-green page: curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon/nongreen.html" gives me 30070 bytes. Obviously that's going to depend on reporting activity - I currently only have 14 lines in the "events received in the past 240 minutes" block. Ralph Mitchell On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:55 AM, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 07:01:32 -0400, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > Henrik, has the format of hobbitdboard / xymondboard changed much between > versions?? It would be fairly easy to make that available via a cgi script > and it would be easier to parse than html. No, this format is fairly static - and you can make it entirely "fixed" by adding a "fields" option to select the data-items you are interested in. But to pick only the hosts that appear on a specific page must be done on the Xymon server - you don't want to download a lot of info to the smartphone, just to throw it away later (unless you have a flat-rate data plan for your smartphone, and I don't). And when we have to code the filtering, we may just as well add the code to provide the data in a standardized format. Something similar to the xymondxboard output, probably. Regards, Henrik _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Android 2.2 App
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Darrik Mazey <darrik.lists at darmasoft.com>wrote: > On 11/03/2011 12:26 AM, Ralph Mitchell wrote: > > Giving: > > > > 192.168.1.4 > > > > I get an Apache log entry. Changing that to > > > > 192.168.1.4/ <http://192.168.1.4/> > > > > I get NO Apache log entry, nothing at all. Adding xymon to the end: > > > > 192.168.1.4/xymon <http://192.168.1.4/xymon> > > > > gets me green status and a log entry again. > > > > Are you assuming that Xymon is installed at the top level, or are you > > appending anything to the hostname?? > > Technically speaking, I make the assumption that xymon is installed > top-level. To get the page (depending on version of xymon and assuming > ssl is checked) I basically do: > > https://<HOSTNAME_SETTING>/nongreen.html > > Where HOSTNAME_SETTING is "192.168.1.4/", this gives a request for: > > https://192.168.1.4//nongreen.html > > The apache Http module kicks up a Bad URI error on a double slash. > > If xymon is not installed top-level, HOSTNAME_SETTING can be set to > "192.168.1.4/PATH" (no trailing slash) and the request becomes: > > https://192.168.1.4/PATH/nongreen.html > > I will update the code to check for a trailing slash in the hostname and > remove it, as a convenience. > > Do you recommend a separate setting for the PATH part, or is it > sufficient to append that to the hostname setting? > Perhaps just a note in the hostname setting box? Could it be labelled something like "Hostname and path", or just "Url for xymon"? Ralph Mitchell

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Conn test
by ger.maguire＠arra.ie 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi, I am monitoring multiple systems that use a satellite connection which is causing me an issue with the conn tests as the first ping will almost always be 1200-1500ms but then subsequent pings will be a "stable" 700ms. Is there any way that I can get the hobbitping to ignore the first ping result received and use the 2nd instead ? I was thinking of using a shell script to do this but this would be a last resort as it adds extra overhead into the conn testing for the system performance. Any ideas welcome. Thanks, Ger.

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customize the email body alerts for xymon
by Alan.FORD＠stanwell.com 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Yeah no probs. I think this is what you want BBALPHAMSG=$BBALPHAMSG" Enter new Information here" Alan This email is to be read subject to the email disclaimer located at http://www.stanwell.com/email-disclaimer.aspx

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