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Cannot open directory from tasks.cfg
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

I've just installed xymon on NetBSD from pkgsrc. 2011-10-14 16:11:20 xymonlaunch starting 2011-10-14 16:11:20 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/pkg/etc/xymon/tasks.cfg 2011-10-14 16:11:20 Cannot open directory I assume the error is because tasks.cfg contains this: # Include add-on modules. directory /usr/pkg/share/xymon/xymonhome/etc/tasks.d Which doesn't exist. Is there documentation on using / setting up tasks.d? -Tracy

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Ubuntu 10.04 apt install hobbit-client
by tsztur＠gmail.com 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Big problem getting the hobbit-client utility from the default apt-get repo. Why is the home directory of the user 'hobbit' in /var/run/hobbit? Every time the system reboots /var/run gets cleared. Hobbit starts fine but my .ssh/authorized_keys file gets erased and my ssh-tunnel no longer works! What is a way around this .. my entire environment of 12 virtual servers now will break XYMON monitoring for them anytime they servers are rebooted. How can I fix this without reinstalling? tia?

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How to setup msgs and file column ?
by Thomas.Weber＠ses.com 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi, I am looking for some help due to a problem with the msgs and file column. For some reason I do not get any entry in the msgs or file column. Mainly having no msgs is really a problem for me. On the client (RH Linux 5, XYMON client 4.2.2) in localclient.cfg I have: : DEFAULT : : FILE /var/log/messages SIZE>0 MTIME<600 yellow LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG /var/log/messages ERROR COLOR=red : : On the server (XYMON version 4.3.4, running on Solaris 10) in client_local.cfg I have: : : [linux] log:/var/log/messages:10240 ignore MARK : : [servername] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger WARNING|ERROR : : I checked that the client has access rights to read the /var/log/messages file. On the Webpage I get only "The client did not report any logfile data" Is there anything I miss ? Or do msgs work only in the centralized mode ? Thanks for any help. Thomas

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Which RRD data type?
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Hi all, I have successfully created a new graph in Xymon 4.2.2 but the RRD data type seems to be wrong. I have a file that I am counting certain records out of and this file is reset every night, so at 00:00 I will have zero records and by 23:59 I will have a few hundreds of thousands. I would like to have this graphed such that I can see the difference in each 5 minute interval. That is if the value is 105 at 02:30 and 115 at 02:35 I want the graph to show 10. I thought that using the DERIVE data type would suffice but it's not working, the graphs are showing 5-minutes values of around 5 or ten when in fact they should be measured in the thousands. Looking at the stored data shows the archive values as very small numbers:  <row><v> 3.1877856295e+00 </v><v> 1.1824717464e-02 </v><v> 4.5896234412e-03 </v></row>  <row><v> 3.7026029130e+00 </v><v> 1.2536687862e-02 </v><v> 5.3445468747e-03 </v></row>  <row><v> 2.4754966887e+00 </v><v> 1.5286975717e-02 </v><v> 7.1192052980e-03 </v></row>  <row><v> 1.8862367114e+00 </v><v> 2.1885456605e-02 </v><v> 1.6929316254e-02 </v></row> Yet the Xymon page shows the latest values thus: Monday October 17 14:02:35 UTC 2011 LoginFailures: 300384 Sources: 2518 Targets: 3096 (these values are after 14 hours of data collection). How can I graph the 5-minute difference for this data and have it actually display the data I want? |\/|

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How to shorten delay before purple alerts?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

How can I change xymon to alert after a server has failed to report for 15 minutes? We're finding that 30 minutes is too long a delay in the production environment. I see where you set purple delay for network tests and I see where you can return it for individual tests, and I see where you can disable purple. Is this a code change? thanks Betsy

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NTP service graph broken
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Peeps I can't get my NTP service page to show a graph. I run a group of stratum-2 NTP servers for internal use, and I'd like to monitor their NTP accuracy. However, I've never been able to get the "NTP" graphs to show on the status page (on Xymon 4.3.3). It always shows the broken image icon. I don't think I have altered anything to make it break, but I'm not completely sure - I think it just never worked. I get an "ntpstat" (rather than "ntp") graph, but it only shows up in trends. I'd like to get it showing up in the "ntp" status page also. The <IMG> URL in the status page uses "service=ntp" rather than "service=ntpstat" as I see on the demo site at xymon.org. A quick look through the source code for xymonrrd.c (which sets the URL for the IMG) doesn't seem to show how the URL could change the service name from "ntp" to "ntpstat". I've tried switching to using sntp, and I've tried adding "ntp" to TEST2RRD and GRAPHS, even though I didn't think these would help. They didn't help. Any ideas? Cheers Jeremy

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xymond_rrd is crashing
by olivier＠audry.fr 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

hello I can I know what is making xymond_rrd crash ? thx for your help oau ps : xymon 4.3.3 I will put --debug to see.

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Solaris prtdiag
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, I have used old good bb-prtdiag for many years. It works fairly well for a lot of old Sun machines but lack the new ones. The script is pretty nasty in nested loops and too many if's. It is not easy to update it to accommodate new machines. Is there anyone out there that has a new version of it? Can't find any on xymonton. Or do you monitor SUN hw in another way than prtdiag -> xymonserver? Otherwise I will rewrite it to support our new hw. - Roland

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Xymon Digest, Vol 8, Issue 20
by y.goudetsidis＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi everyone I am junior sysadmin at a college and after a few failed attempts I successfully installed Xymon. No errors appeared after running 'make' and 'make install'. At the moment I am trying to configure my web server(Apache/2.2.3 ) (which is located on the same machine as xymon) and I am following the instructions on the "installing Xymon" link (http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/install.html) but I can not really understand what changes I have to make. It says on the link that I have to make the necessary additions to the apache configuration in ~/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf. What lines do I have to add/change and where can I find this file? As you can understand my apache knowledge is limited, I only installed it so I can run Xymon. Could someone please help me? Many thanks Yanni On September 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: > Send Xymon mailing list submissions to > xymon at xymon.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xymon-request at xymon.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xymon-owner at xymon.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Xymon digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Alert based on ping response time (Vernon Everett) > 2. Re: 4.3.5 compile problems Solaris 10 x86 (Roland Soderstrom) > 3. Re: monitoring mysql with xymon (Jeremy Laidman) > 4. Re: Alert based on ping response time (Jeremy Laidman) > 5. Re: Cannot Load Host Data (Raul GN) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:14:21 +0800 > From: Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> > To: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> > Cc: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Alert based on ping response time > Message-ID: > <CAGo4kcYbTbL9B4Xuo-bmuF3Vo4WboFN37JLnxz5QmqJ7Jk=VMg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This is relatively easy to do in a script, but you would end up with a new > test. > Incorportating the time into the existing conn test is probably a task for > the likes of Henrik et al. > > Regards > Vernon > > > > On 23 September 2011 22:59, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote: > > > Anyone have any experience with this at all? > > > > On 09/21/11, *Ryan Novosielski * <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I see this question has been asked on the list a few times, but I > > haven't quite gotten the complete answers from any of the old threads... > > so here goes: > > > > I see that I get ping response time with my current setup. I appear to > > be using fping already, so that recommendation is covered. The trouble > > is, the data appears to be captured as a graph is being assembled using > > it. Is there really no way to use this data for alerting as it stands > > now? It appears as if more than 10ms in my environment represents a > > problem and that setting it at 10 would probably yield no false alarms, > > but I can see no way to turn red for any value other than a failed > > ping/dropped packets. > > > > Thanks for any info you can pass along. > > - -- > > - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer > > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAk56VNEACgkQmb+gadEcsb7roACff5HzoFnfjHYsyLLf6mc23RbI > > s30AnA1vn+duYt2S/J9DHIjunS3eFdqq > > =mssT > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xymon mailing list > > Xymon at xymon.com > > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > > > > -- > > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer > > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xymon mailing list > > Xymon at xymon.com > > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > > >

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Content-type header missing?
by phatbootyluvr＠ymail.com 17 Oct '11

17 Oct '11

Recently, Hobbit has started emailing reports which appear to have a missing "Content-type: text/html" header. Currently, the emails are displayed as text which show all the html tags. The following is an example: red Mon Oct 17 14:17:51 2011 &red Gi1/26 [Kink Cube 1054] load is very high <b>Interface error rates:</b> Input load: yellow=75%, red=95% Output load: yellow=75%, red=95% <table border=1 cellpadding=5> <tr><td>Ifc name</td><td>Ifc Speed</td><td>Rate in (load %)</td><td>Rate out (load %)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_1 [Kink Office 111]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_2 [Kink Office 112]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_3 [Kink Cube 1018]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_4 [Kink Cube 1019]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_5 [Kink Cube 1033]</td><td>100.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_6 [Kink Cube 1034]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 18.28 Kbps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 23.27 Kbps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_7 [Kink Cube 1035]</td><td>100.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 38.38 Kbps (0.04%)</td><td>&green 40.80 Kbps (0.04%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_8 [Kink Cube 1036]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 5.89 Kbps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 15.28 Kbps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_9 [Kink Cube 1037]</td><td>1000.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 20.64 Kbps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 28.37 Kbps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_10 [Kink Cube 1038]</td><td>10.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td></tr> <tr><td>Gi1_11 [Kink Cube 1039]</td><td>100.00 Mbps</td><td>&green 0.00 bps (0.00%)</td><td>&green 4.65 Kbps (0.00%)</td></tr> [...] How do I fix this?

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