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TS - Can you update the Reason while DISABLED?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Is it possible to update the 'Reason:' information of a device while it is currently disabled? This way the information can be kept more current: Like: Waiting for part from Dell Part installed and server being tested - due to back online 2/23/2011 Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D L-3 Communication Systems West 640 North 2200 West P.O. Box 16850 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 eFax (413) 480-6873 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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xymon replication or clustering
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi, We have one xymon in our Head Office, and other one in branch office. In my Head office, we want to have 2 xymon to replicate result, if one failed, the other take place. An employe have start something, but he left month ago. I see I the hobbit he did, this line in bb-hosts : summary Hobbit-PRD.All 172.30.1.1 http://hobbit/hobbit group servers 127.0.0.1 Hobbit-PRD # bbd http://Hobbit-PRD/ So the big question is, it is possible to do this ? Can we have to xymon than are in "cluster" And if we want to get our branch office? thx David Raymond

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4.3.0 RC1 - rrddefinitions.cfg suggestion
by brian＠majeska.com 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Henrik, Would it be possible to add support for other rrdtool create options in the rrddefinitions.cfg file? I'd like to be able to specify a different step for certain tests. Like [http] --step 60 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:30:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:120:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1440:576 This would let me zoom in on the graph down to the minute which helps in quickly identifying when problems start and you have to dig through mountains of logs for the precise moment, also I've found when using drraw to create aggregated graphs for dashboards it gives it more of an up to the minute view of your systems rather then a 5 minute lag time. I use to do this by creating the rrds manually on the 4.2.x code base, but it would be great if I could just specify it in the rrddefinitions.cfg. The rrd step is just one of those items you can't tune after its been created without dumping to xml first, creating a new rrd container, then importing the data back. -- Brian Majeska

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xymon-4.3.0-RC1: alerting question
by dominique.frise＠unil.ch 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, We looked in the code but could not find the answer... What is the minimum time for the same alert status to stay up to be processed correctly by Xymon ? For example in following transitions, what would the minimum time (in sec.) for the yellow statuses (same check) to be processed correctly by Xymon ? long t. short t. long t. short t. long t. long t. green -> yellow -> clear -> yellow -> clear -> green alert alert recovered Thanks for advices. Dominique

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test ssh on private ip
by sholmes42＠mac.com 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

[Running 4.2.3 on solaris with a lot of linux clients] We have a heavily (some would say 'insanely') firewalled environment. For some clients, I need to be able to test ssh on the private ip address, but even though I have the private ip in the bb-hosts file and have specified testip, the ssh test insists on testing the public address (which it is getting from DNS, apparently) and fails because the firewall doesn't allow ssh connections on that interface. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Steve

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https and sslcert column
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, I try to monitor https://10.x.x.x/index.html, but I get an error that xymon can see it. On my old hobbit, it's work #1 and I see column sslcert as well with the certificate. What I need to install to get this done ? I running xymon 4.3RC1. thx David Raymond

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BIND, sendmail, mailq graphs
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi. I was looking through the graphs.cfg, and noticed there were definitions for some useful graphs, especially BIND, sendmail and mailq. How do I use these graphs? Do I need to setup something on the client to transmit the data? There were no comments in graphs.cfg and I cannot find anything in the Xymon man-pages. /Johan

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Problems browsing SVN repository
by shea4th＠comcast.net 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Is anyone having trouble browsing the SVN repository? http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon/ I get "Cannot display the webpage" Regards, Greg Shea EMC Corporation

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Monitoring multiple Linux Processes
by Steve.Newton＠PHH.com 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hello, I'm trying to monitor multiple processes on Linux servers. I would like to use Page/subpage like described in the Hobbit-clients.cfg file, but it will only show one processes on the page for each server. Here is a what I have in the file. PAGE=infrastructure/noc PROC batchman PROC jobman PROC netman Infrastructure is the page Noc is the subpage. XYMON only finds the first PROC. Steve Newton PHH Corporation Desk 856-917-7700 Cell 856-425-1092

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Bug tracker; triage?
by markxr＠gmail.com 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi All, There are a number of bugs in the Sourceforge bug tracker, is anybody looking at them? Does anyone triage bugs? There are also a lot of bugs mentioned on this mailing list, or a long time ago, which aren't in sourceforge. Are we going to use SF for this purpose? I'd really like to contribute something to Xymon - I think it's really good - and want to understand how it's managed. Regards Mark

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