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Xymon crashes
by dlubbe＠tmse.nl 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hi all, I've got the following problem: I used to run Xymon 4.2.3 on FreeBSD (using the ports collection) and it worked fine. However, when I upgraded to 4.3.2, I got all sorts of weird behaviour, so I decided to start from scratch. So I uninstalled Xymon, deleted everyting related to it and then installed a fresh copy of Xymon 4.3.2 (also via the port-collection) The installation goes fine, but when I start it up, the html files aren't generated. It seems that xymond crashes for reasons I don't understand I did some digging and I see the following: xymonlaunch.log: 2011-04-09 23:39:33 xymonlaunch starting 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/local/www/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Cannot open directory ^T<C2> (<C6><B1> 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Loading hostnames 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Loading saved state 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/www/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Setting up signal handlers 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Setting up xymond channels 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Setting up logfiles 2011-04-09 23:39:38 Cannot open env file /usr/local/www/xymon/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg - No such file or directory 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Task xymond terminated by signal 6 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Loading hostnames 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Loading saved state 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/www/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2011-04-09 23:39:39 Task xymond terminated, status 1 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Loading hostnames 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Loading saved state 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/www/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2011-04-09 23:39:44 Task xymond terminated, status 1 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Loading hostnames 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Loading saved state 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/www/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2011-04-09 23:39:49 Task xymond terminated, status 1 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Loading hostnames 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Loading saved state 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/www/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Setting up signal handlers 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Setting up xymond channels 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Setting up logfiles ..... xymond.log 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Setup complete 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-09 23:39:54 -> 2011-04-09 23:39:54 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-09 23:39:54 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' 2011-04-09 23:39:54 Setup complete 2011-04-09 23:40:21 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-09 23:40:21 -> 2011-04-09 23:40:21 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-09 23:40:21 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' 2011-04-09 23:50:09 Setup complete 2011-04-09 23:50:30 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-09 23:50:30 -> 2011-04-09 23:50:30 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-09 23:50:30 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' 2011-04-09 23:50:30 Setup complete 2011-04-09 23:51:10 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-09 23:51:10 -> 2011-04-09 23:51:10 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-09 23:51:10 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' 2011-04-10 00:00:58 Setup complete 2011-04-10 00:01:17 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-10 00:01:17 -> 2011-04-10 00:01:17 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-10 00:01:17 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' 2011-04-10 00:01:17 Setup complete 2011-04-10 00:01:32 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) 2011-04-10 00:01:32 -> 2011-04-10 00:01:32 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15 2011-04-10 00:01:32 -> 1st line: 'status xymon,example,com.xymond red - Program crashed' ....... Output from gdb bin/xymond tmp/xymond.core #0 0x281afe17 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x281afd76 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.7 #2 0x281ae98a in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7 #3 0x0805df23 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 rbtFind (h=0x0, key=0x2822b047) at rbtr.c:380 #6 0x0805a461 in knownhost (hostname=0x2822b047 "Amp2hi-test", hostip=0xbfbfbcfc "", ghosthandling=GH_LOG) at loadhosts.c:344 #7 0x0804d626 in get_hts (msg=Variable "msg" is not available.) at xymond.c:1051 #8 0x08051be0 in do_message (msg=0x28204100, origin=0x806238f "") at xymond.c:2981 #9 0x08056871 in main (argc=8, argv=Cannot access memory at address 0x4) at xymond.c:4999 Line 6 surprises me, because 'Amp2hi-test' is one of the hosts that I used to monitor, but I removed all the old configs etc from the server. I've started up xymon several times and sometimes I see other 'old' hostnames in the output file of xymond.core It appears that I didn't completely remove all traces of the old installation after all... Any help would be appreciated, Dennis Disclaimer. This email is intended only for use by the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you receive this email unintentionally, please delete the email and inform Toshiba Medical Systems Europe BV (TMSE) immediately. TMSE does not guarantee that email transmission is secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. If verification is required please request a written confirmation. TMSE accepts no liability for any damage resulting from the use and/or acceptation of the content of this e-mail. 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advice/Best Practices for hobbit-clients.cfg
by soopal＠ice.go.cr 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi all: I guess that many of us have mixed environment with*nix,windows,linux boxes. On my env I have CMT (cool thread) and monothread sparcs and x86 older and newer ones. So I'm trying to make my hobbit-clients.cfg easy-use/config/modify... So I use CLASS to group HW-like tests and HOST to specialize other ones. But I'm dealing with a strange behavior with this setup... When procs test runs; appears in red because both Windows and unix processes are seek on the host. So clearly I have a trouble here, since I don't like the EXHOST option to deal with exceptions to the DEFAULT entry ( I'm dealing with nearly 80 monitored hosts, between bare metals and Solaris Zones + VMware Machines and Virtual box) to put that on one line it's scary. I adding some parts of the file and If anybody want can put the entire one. ---parts of hobbit-clients.cfg HOST=hssftp01 (no specs added since the class have all what I need) CLASS=SZCSolSFTP UP 45m TIME=*:0000:2400 #alarmas rojas/amarillas en este intervalo 8x5+/24x7 PROC sshd 1 -1 yellow PROC in.ftpd 1 30 red PROC cron 1 -1 yellow PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]21)$" state=LISTEN TEXT=ftp MEMSWAP 25 55 MEMPHYS 99 101 MEMACT 90 98 LOAD 8 10 CLOCK 95 #DOWNTIME=*:1205:1210 #puede apagarse en ese rango (8x5+/24x7) debe ir en bb-hosts DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 8.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 95 ----parts of bb-hosts file 10.xxx.xxx.xxx hssftp01.hss.dnm.icetel.ice # COMMENT:"FTP Server 01" CLIENT:hssftp01 CLASS:SZCSolSFTP testip prefer multihomed ssh files ports uptime vmstat ftp TRENDS:*,ifstat ------Error that I received with procs test enable. (and it’s a unix box) red Mon May 2 13:43:32 CST 2011 - Processes NOT ok sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) httpd (found 12, req. 1 or more) cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) %hobbitd (found 26, req. between 1 and 1) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) oracle.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) NBConsole.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) %^nb*.exe (found 0, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) named (found 1, req. 1 or more) cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) VisualSVNServer.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 10) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) tnslsnr (found 0, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) %ora_.* (found 0, req. 1 or more) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) sqlservr.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 10) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) %java -jar /opt/dai/dai.jar (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) %java -classpath .:./Frontal* (found 0, req. 1 or more) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) winvnc.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 25) BBWin.exe (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) in.ftpd (found 0, req. between 1 and 30) cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) tnslsnr (found 0, req. 1 or more) sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) ntpd (found 1, req. 1 or more) %ora_.* (found 0, req. 1 or more) I'm looking to any help but also any advice/BP about how to handle it will be welcome. PD: Using xymon 4.2.3 and please accept my apologizes for spanish comments.! Este mensaje de correo electrónico, incluidos los archivos adjuntos, es para el uso exclusivo de la persona a la que se ha enviado, y puede contener información que sea confidencial o protegida legalmente. Si usted no es el destinatario, o ha recibido este mensaje por error, no está autorizado a copiar, distribuir, o utilizar de alguna manera este mensaje. Por favor notifique inmediatamente al remitente por correo electrónico y suprimir permanentemente este mensaje y los archivos adjuntos. No se otorga ninguna garantía de que este e-mail esté libre de errores o virus. INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD

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Refresh my memory acknowledge alerts via Mail
by KK1051＠att.com 02 May '11

02 May '11

Remind me how we setup the hook to acknowledge alerts via email on SUN Solaris. Did we put the call to the script in the users .forwarding file or do an alias hook in the sendmail config? Xymon docs only talk about procmail. Guess I could D/l BB and read those docs..... Kevin H. King Engineer V Implementations AT&T 404-444-0410 "You can not please everyone everyday, But everyday please everyone you can" -me

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external script : zfs
by work＠infomaniak.ch 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi, I've developped an interesting external script for people needing to follow zfs files. All the info about it are hosted on github: https://github.com/briner/zfs-4-xymon and you can also check the screenshots here: https://github.com/briner/zfs-4-xymon/blob/master/doc/zfs-4-xymon.png Hope that it can helps. Regards cED

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bb: Argument list too large long
by joe.acquisto＠gmail.com 02 May '11

02 May '11

When trying to send a simple status message to hobbit (yes still at that level) , along the line of : /path_to_bb/bb my_hobbit_host "status+1d page.subpage green `date` `cat /somefile`" "somefile" is rather large, some 428k and I can confirm it works fine if I make "somefile" much smaller. Is there a way around this? The idea is to have this file as a page for reference. I personally think a better solution is to use access or excel (in mswords), but . . . boss wants it this way. joe a.

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[xymon] a small ps parsing bug hp-ux 11.23 ia64?
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Here is a sample ps output: > ps -Al -o pid,ppid,user,stime,state,pri,pcpu,time,vsz,args|grep tl1_am It may not be clear here with outlook formatting the text but it would appear that the ps output gets shifted towards the right to accommodate a bigger time column which leads to a parsing bug. My PROCS statement looks for this: PROC %^vt_tl1_am$ 1 TEXT=vt_tl1_am This will fail to find the process below if the time field goes over its allocated column space. I am assuming because it determines the ps fields based on column boundaries? 2316 1421 dwgore 02:28:43 S 154 0.00 00:00 128 grep tl1_am 10480 1 temip Apr 20 R 152 35.78 1-00:27:52 1296976 vt_tl1_am If I remove the time entry from the ps list of parameters from hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh then the ps will look like this: dwgore at ndctfb8:/var/opt/vzb/nmsbb/client/bin> ps -Ax -o pid,ppid,user,stime,state,pri,pcpu,vsz,args|grep vt_tl1_am 8098 7808 dwgore 02:42:52 R 154 0.00 128 grep vt_tl1_am 10480 1 temip Apr 20 R 152 26.82 1296976 vt_tl1_am And parsing will succeed. Should I go ahead and remove the time column from all my hosts to work around this bug since I am not sure it is used anyway? ~David

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Question concerning port monitoring
by Tom.Moore＠sas.com 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Greetings, We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port. The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can't just disable the "ports" check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports. How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately? Thanks, Tom

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bb: Argument list too large long
by tm＠freedom.com 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

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Can't drop HTTP POST test?
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Xymoners, I have tried the following thrice now: bin/bb localhost "drop host.umdnj.edu.login" ...login is the name of my post test. I can see the files in the data directory: ./hist/host,umdnj,edu.login ./histlogs/host_umdnj_edu/login ...anyone have any advice here? Do I have to call it by some other name because I've named my POST test "login"? I tried dropping "post" also -- no dice. Or have I found a bug maybe? - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAk265VUACgkQmb+gadEcsb7q6ACeNykYC8cmmZWR7IsuDedD7QlF dDoAoJXpYZ1SRiFmpiuf+L9L/703I6aK =wYHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable
by razvan.bugulescu＠sic.montp.cnrs.fr 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hello, I have a little problem with the topic title, i have somes hosts to monitor; they are all in hobbit-client.cfg and i'd like to have one file for one host. So what I did was to cut each host part from hobbit-client.cfg and put them in /etc/hobbit/hobbitclient.d/ with host1.cfg filename host2.cfg ect... and let only the DEFAULT part in hobbit-client.cfg The problem is that when i restart the hobbit daemon, i had these messages: 2011-04-28 17:37:32 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable 2011-04-28 17:37:32 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable 2011-04-28 17:37:32 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable without the variable name... and the only thing i did was just separate each host config. and the /var/run/hobbit/hobbitclient-include.cfg file contain the files which are in /etc/hobbit/hobbitclient.d/ folder ... so i really don't understand where the problem could be.... Some details: xymon is running under debian 6.0 and its version is 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-6+squeeze1 Thanks for your help

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