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bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions
by spa＠syntec.co.uk 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi, I was looking for a way of sending alerts based on bb-hosts:group and could not find a way. Is there no way of doing this? The nearest thing I could find was this e-mail below (which implies it is possible, but my debug tests suggest it does not work), but I could not find a follow-up to this e-mail. Alerts based on bb-hosts group and CLASS seem like a good idea... Or a way of designating network tests as belonging to a certain GROUP. (Lower-case "group" refers to the existing directive in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg), while upper-case GROUP refers to the hobbit-alerts (alerts.cfg) and hobbit-clients (analysis.cfg) setting.) e.g. myIP myHost # ftp[:port[:s]][@ipaddress][=GROUP] To be honest, I think either alerting by CLASS or bb-hosts:group would suffice, or in this particular case, I could move these hosts to their own page because there are a fair number. But I have other smaller groups/classes where their own page would be overkill... Anyway, I'm looking for a good way to set-up alerts for network-tests on particular classes of servers... Is my best bet just to create a macro in alerts.cfg with all the hostnames I need? (And to remember to update it.) Kind regards, SebA -----Original Message----- http://www.xymon.com/archive/2007/06/msg00074.html bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions _____ * Subject: bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions * From: Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com> * Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:10:14 -0700 * Organization: Cisco Systems _____ I've been using HTML in the group titles in my bb-hosts, to spruce up the look of the hobbit page. Example: group-except files Internal Servers Now I've come to a situation where I may want to create a paging alias that is tied to a particular group. My first question is, will I have to use the same HTML-ized name in hobbit-alerts.cfg as I did in bb-hosts? In other words: GROUP=Internal Servers MAIL someone (at) somwhwhere.com My second question is, why is there no option to define alerts by CLASS (bb-hosts has a CLASS:Classname option)? This would allow more granular alert definitions as you could have a class of clients that are in multiple groups that you would want to have a specific alert for. Thanks, -Charles

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Xymon & Devmon: Missing repeater data for primary OID
by roel.baardman＠dnw.aero 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Dear all, While creating some templates for devmon, for HP JetDirect machines for example, I am getting some errors and the white icon for if_ graphs. What I did: - Copy cisco-3750 if_* to a new hp-jetdirect dir - Create a specs file and verify it is recognized. - Inspect a target device's SNMP tree with a graphical tool to find OIDs - Verify those OIDs work from the commandline with snmpget. This results in the following oids file: ifName : .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.2.1 : branch ifBps : .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5.1 : branch ifInOctets : .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1 : branch ifOutOctets : .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.1 : branch The error I'm now seeing is "Missing repeater data for primary OID". My question is: what obvious thing am I missing, or what is broken? :-) Best regards, Roel __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5895 (20110222) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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conn Flapping every 2.5 minutes
by Shea.Graeme.A＠edumail.vic.gov.au 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Thankyou Henrik, that got it. Somehow I had configured a remote bbProxy wrong :-#. I copied in the entries for another set of simple hostnames simular to the ones having the issue and forgot to update them. It's strange because those simple host names must be resolving somewhere up the DNS tree so the display on my main server was as expected (except for the failing conn test). So simple when you know what you're doing. Many thanks Graeme -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 7:41 PM To: Shea, Graeme A Subject: Re: [Xymon] conn Flapping every 2.5 minutes Hi Graeme, > I have both an IP address and "testip" in the bb-host file. The line is > > "10.X.Y.21 1091EDUDC01 #testip" but I still get the error. very strange. The "info" status column also says "Network tests use: IP-address" ? Is it possible you have another server doing network tests? If you check the "Message received from..." line at the bottom of the status (it's in the historical status logs also), do they all mention the same source of the status? Try running xymoncmd xymonnet --debug 1091EDUDC01 (or "bbcmd bbtest-net" if you're on 4.2.x) and send me the output. That will show what the network test is doing. You can also try running it with the "--no-update" status a few times to simulate the test that Xymon performs, without actually updating the status. Of course it would be most interesting if you could get the debug output from one of the runs that actually fails. Regards, Henrik Important - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please contact us and delete all copies. Before opening or using attachments check them for viruses and defects. Regardless of any loss, damage or consequence, whether caused by the negligence of the sender or not, resulting directly or indirectly from the use of any attached files our liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. Any representations or opinions expressed are those of the individual sender, and not necessarily those of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

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conn Flapping every 2.5 minutes
by graeme＠shea.com.au 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hi All, I have a problem with my Xymon setup I haven't been able to get around. The conn test for servers at the same site as the Xymon server that have simple host name entries in bb-hosts fails about every 2.5 minutes with a "Can't resolve IP address for 1091edudc01" error (1091edudc01 being the host name). The other hosts at this site with FQDN work fine, as do simple host names at other sites. These windows servers are part of a different windows domain so I cannot add them to my local domain. A relevant entry in bbhosts is: 10.X.Y.21 1091EDUDC01 #testip 0.0.0.0 BuServ.Alfps.Internal # http://edupass:81 Things that I have tried (in order) Added IP address to bb-hosts Added "testip" to bb-hosts Added hosts to local dns and the local domain as the search domain to Xymon server. Added the hostnames to the "hosts" file on the Xymon server Built new server using latest Ubuntu, Xymon and hobbitping. Changed to use fping. Removed IP address and "testip" from bbhosts to use the local DNS to resolve the host names. If I use a terminal to ping the problem hosts there are no failures. I ran a ping every 30 seconds for several hours and it worked every time but conn still kept failing. When I switched to using DNS to resolve the host name the flapping changed to be green for 3-4.5 minutes and red for 10-15 seconds. Nearly all Xymon settings are set to the defaults. The strange thing is when I built the new server using a temporary IP address it worked for several days but when I changed it to use the same address as the old server (so the clients can reach it) the problem occurred on the new server. I admit this sounds like a network issue but since it should be using the IP address supplied it should not be returning a "Can't resolve IP address" error and ping works fine. Using DNS to resolve the names of the other monitored servers at this site works ok. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Regards Graeme

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CPU Load vs Utilization
by tjyang2001＠gmail.com 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Recently a concern was raised by my Xymon user. On Xymon Unix machine's (R3) CPU column is showing CPU load number (0 to 20+). On Windows machine(R2) using bbwin CPU column is showing CPU Utilization number in percentage(0%-100%). Shouldn't we distinguish Unix CPU and Windows CPU columns ? Since they are using two different metric. R1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#CPU_load_vs_CPU_utilization R2: http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=winxptest&SERVICE=cpu Windows client is using CPU Utilization in % R3: http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=voodoo.hswn.dk&SERVICE=cpu This debian Unix machine is using CPU load number. tj -- T.J. Yang

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Monitorar Memoria
by rtavares＠zonasul.com.br 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Prezados, Nao consigo configurar a columa mempry para funcionar com os servidores. Apenas o server do Xymon, ativou a coluna memory. os demais servidores, esta coluna não apreseta nada. Alguma dica? Obrigado *Rubenir Coelho Tavares Junior *

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by fs＠rnt.de 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

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stiull working ?
by hs＠hswn.dk 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

eh?

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Is this list working ?
by hs＠hswn.dk 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Just checking

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Xymon mailing list change
by henrik＠hswn.dk 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

Hi! Since it began, the Hobbit and Xymon mailing lists have been handled using a combination of "qmail" and "ezmlm-idx" software. However, both of these are getting rather old - and especially qmail has been giving me some headaches when it comes to handling spam. It also is not included as a standard package in Debian (or any other Linux distribution, as far as I know), so packaging it up and getting it integrated with other Debian software has been a bit of a challenge. So I have decided to move all of the mail handling ove to Postfix and Mailman - both of which are modern, well-maintained and flexible solutions for e-mail and mailing lists. The setup is working now on a new server I've been building, so I expect the actual move to happen sometime next week. As users of the xymon at xymon.com mailing list you should not see any real changes - all of the current subscribers will be moved over to the new setup. So I expect the list to keep operating as usual. The only thing you'll notice is that you will receive a mail with a password for the mailing-list web interface - you'll need this if you want to unsubscribe, or if you want to switch to/from a digest mailing. I just want this done before shipping 4.3.0, so I can put some up-to-date instructions on how to subscribe to the list into the docs. Regards, Henrik

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