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Unable to view xymon web pages
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

I am trying to setup xymon on Ubuntu and for days now have not been able to get it working. I have followed the installation steps to a "T" and have created a user called "xymonuser" for xymon. I copied the xymon-apache.conf file to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and when I start the xymon.sh service as xymonuser I only see the "index/xymon" directory when I go to http://localhost/xymom/ Here are some of my one of my log files: tail /var/log/xymon/xymonlaunch.log Cannot access checkpoint file /home/xymonuser/srver/tmp/xymond.chk for restore Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) Task xymond terminated, status 1 There are errors at in my apache logs and when I start the xymon service it starts successfully. I have to say I am a newbie when it comes to linux and am still learning how to use vi. Jewel --

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Get status from command line?
by Johan.Sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi. Is it possible to get the current status for specified/all hosts from command line? I want to create a client-side script on the server that checks for purple statuses. We don't want to configure alerts for purple, since there are often multiple tests or hosts that go purple at the same time, and we don't want to be flooded with alerts. We are currently doing this by checking the nongreen.html file, but that's not a pretty solution. Best Regards, Johan Sjöberg

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Issue with declaring Load in defaults
by balothia＠rediffmail.com 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi Xymon Team,   Thanks for efforts you all are making resolve the queries.   I have one issue in my Xymon setup.   I have configured Xymon to have configuration centralize on Xymon server.   In defualts I have declared the Load value as   Load 5.0 10.0   which is applicable for all. Now there is one AIX server on which load always high so I want to change the load value for that particular server. Below is my analysis.cfg   HOST=hsdaixdb        LOAD 6.0 10.0        PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]22)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=5 max=20 color=green TRACK=ssh "TEXT=SSH logins"        PROC "%db" 1 color=red TRACK "TEXT=DB2 database services" As i have Load declared in default this value is not getting affected. Do we have any reason for this or I am doing a mistake here.   Thanks Gautam

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Help with reports
by Steve.Newton＠PHH.com 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hi, I was wondering if the Availability Report can be customized to report only the CONN test and a group of hosts? Thanks Steve Newton Steve Newton PHH Corporation Desk 856-917-7700 Cell 856-425-1092

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Xymon donations
by lalli＠slepja.com 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hello all. I am a fan of Xymon since it first spun of the bb, when quest bought that, and became Hobbit. I have been using hobbit/xymon since, both privately and at my work to monitor my systems... Now its time for me to try to give back to this project the way I can (i suck at programming) so I talked to my department manager and convinced him to allow me to donate yearly to this project as Xymon is a very important part of our system. I will be donating 500 us$ for this year and 1.000 us$ for following years while we use Xymon as our monitoring software here at where I work at the moment. This is not much, I know, but this is at least a starting point. I will be donating to all other open source projects that we are using in our commercial environment, although amounts vary alot based on how much we use each product. My wish is that other companies that use this great software can show their support in a similar way and that is why I am writing this post. Please support open source projects if possible. best regards, Larus Rafn

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BUG: LOG ignores not working in 4.3.4
by Johan.Sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hi. Yesterday I updated our Xymon server from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4. Now I have noticed that the LOG test ignores that we have added in analysis.cfg no longer work. No lines seem to be ignored anymore. /Johan

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Trends page bug
by Johan.Sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi. I noticed a bug in the Trends page in 4.3.4 (possibly earlier as well). If I press any of the buttons to change the time period for which to show graphs (or manually enter a custom period), the short name of the host is used (as specified with NAME: in hosts.cfg), giving me a "No such host" error. I can see in the address bar that the hostname is changed from FQDN to the short name, and it works if I manually enter the full name. /Johan

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PCI Compliance
by Andrew.Clarke＠bccit.co.uk 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

Has anyone done any work on PCI DSS compliance (for companies that take & store credit card details)? If so, have you found an internal PCI Compliance Checker that can be integrated into Xymon, providing red/green status? Alternatively, does anyone have any WMI scripts that pass their output to Xymon that I could hack around? Thanks, Andrew [BCC IT Solutions] Andrew Clarke Support and Technical Development Officer DDI: 0871 288 2036 Promotions www.bccit.co.uk/promotions<http://www.bccit.co.uk/promotions> Topic of the month www.bccit.co.uk/topic<http://www.bccit.co.uk/topic_of_the_month> For full e-mail terms & conditions of use, please follow this link to the BCC web site www.bccit.co.uk/legal<http://www.bccit.co.uk/legal>

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Can't get data to appear on status page
by rrdansmith＠gmail.com 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Sorry to waste bandwidth - found the correct syntax in the man files of all places. cat /tmp/data_file.tmp | /home/xymon/client/bin/xymon bb_host_IP "@" Works like a charm, of course. -dan _____ From: Dan Smith [mailto:rrdansmith at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:00 PM To: 'Xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Can't get data to appear on status page I've been banging on this for a few days, so I thought I would throw up a white flag and see if there is an easy answer for this. When I go to the tab of my custom script, I see the date stamp, but nothing else...the data that should be displayed is missing. I am writing a custom script that will run outside of xymon and just use xymon to return the the data to my monitoring server. I have collected the data in a file that looks like this: status host.occas_runtime green Fri Sep 2 14:20:13 EDT 2011 DateTime: 2011-09-0214:16:42 ActveAppSession: 0 ActiveSipSession: 0 DestroyedAppSession: 2561 DestroyedSipSession: 2538 MsgsProcessed: 3965 MsgsReceived: 3967 MsgsRejected: 0 FailedSipTrans: 0 SipThroughput: 40 SuccessSipTrans: 33 TotalAppSession: 3963 TotalSipSession: 3955 I am sending the file to the xymon server with this command: /home/xymon/client/bin/xymon bb_host_IP- < /tmp/data_file.tmp When I go to the tab for this monitor, I see the date stamp, but nothing else. It's like the rest of the data got truncated. The host is red hat. I am using the client from xymon 4.3.4. It seems like when I send the data using the xymon client, I'm actually sending it one line at a time...which might explain why only the first line goes through. Is there a right way to do this? Is there something else that I'm missing? -dan

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Can't get data to appear on status page
by rrdansmith＠gmail.com 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

I've been banging on this for a few days, so I thought I would throw up a white flag and see if there is an easy answer for this. When I go to the tab of my custom script, I see the date stamp, but nothing else...the data that should be displayed is missing. I am writing a custom script that will run outside of xymon and just use xymon to return the the data to my monitoring server. I have collected the data in a file that looks like this: status host.occas_runtime green Fri Sep 2 14:20:13 EDT 2011 DateTime: 2011-09-0214:16:42 ActveAppSession: 0 ActiveSipSession: 0 DestroyedAppSession: 2561 DestroyedSipSession: 2538 MsgsProcessed: 3965 MsgsReceived: 3967 MsgsRejected: 0 FailedSipTrans: 0 SipThroughput: 40 SuccessSipTrans: 33 TotalAppSession: 3963 TotalSipSession: 3955 I am sending the file to the xymon server with this command: /home/xymon/client/bin/xymon bb_host_IP- < /tmp/data_file.tmp When I go to the tab for this monitor, I see the date stamp, but nothing else. It's like the rest of the data got truncated. The host is red hat. I am using the client from xymon 4.3.4. It seems like when I send the data using the xymon client, I'm actually sending it one line at a time...which might explain why only the first line goes through. Is there a right way to do this? Is there something else that I'm missing? -dan

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