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parsing bug in hobbit-clients.cfg
by heeb＠phys.ethz.ch 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi Suppose you have the following entry in hobbit-clients.cfg: HOST=blog.example.com,example.com PROC apache then the PROC test will be ignored for example.com. If the two hosts are reversed, i.e. HOST=example.com,blog.example.com PROC apache then the PROC test will be done for both hosts. I tried with a few variations on this and it appears that any later string in the comma separated list will be ignored if it is a substring of a string that appeared earlier. The same goes for EXHOSTS and probably most other selectors. This bug is present in at least versions 4.3.0 beta2 (from Debian lenny-backports) and 4.2.0 (from Debian lenny). -- Elmar -- Dr. Elmar S. Heeb <heeb at phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 26 68 IT Services Group, HPT D 19 voice: +41 44 633 25 91 Department of Physics, ETH Zurich mobile: +41 79 628 75 24 CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Monitoring a network cards bandwidth?
by isolderj＠hotmail.com 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

I can seem to search the archives on the xymon site. Can anyone maybe a suggest a way to do this. I have alinusx server I would like to monitor the trhoughput of the network card and graph it. Thanks

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Monitoring a network cards bandwidth?
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

You're asking how to monitor a remote interface? You could put a Mikrotik and bridge two interfaces. Not sure what else can be offered on the xymon list. On Nov 22, 2010 12:09 AM, <isolderj at hotmail.com> wrote:

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Xymon RPM package
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi all Looking through the RPM .spec file I see that the server and client packages conflict. Can the Xymon client be run on the Xymon server with RPMs built with the supplied .spec file? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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Problem with a custom test
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi all I have this entry in clientlaunch.cfg on all my Xymon clients: --- [rhncfg] ENVFILE /etc/xymon/client/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/rhncfg.sh INTERVAL 60m --- The problem I'm having is the client status for this test turns purple after approx 30 minutes. I know the script is working correctly. If I reduce INTERVAL to 30 minutes or under, the test doesn't go purple, but the remote server administrators are not happy with the amount of connections this test generates so 60m is not minimum I'm allowed. Any ideas? CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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Monitoring Exchange 2010 - imaps/pop3s alarms
by hobbit＠elyograg.org 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

I have recently migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Several times a day, I get alarms for imaps and pop3s, which are resolved less than a minute later. The graph (http://www.elyograg.org/pop3s.png) shows hourly spikes in reponse time. The alarms are not every hour, but when they do happen, they correspond to the spikes. The email from xymon looks like this. Note the "seconds" value, which is extremely low. Anytime there's an alarm, the value is low like this. ---- Service pop3s on server.example.com is not OK : Service unavailable (connect timeout) Seconds: 0.003435 ---- There have been no complaints from people who use the service, and believe me, I'd hear about it if there was a problem. The non-SSL versions are not alarming. I just noticed that the graph for pop3 has two entries - pop3 and pop3s. From what I can tell, it checks TLS on the standard test. The pop3s graph on the pop3 entry looks identical to the pop3s graph I've included here, except it's red instead of blue. I suspect that it's related to the throttling policies in Exchange 2010, but I don't know what to change. I don't want to open the default throttling policy way up, but I did change the anonymous connection limit from 1 to 5. Has anyone else had this problem and found a way to solve it? Thanks, Shawn

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clarification on depends= host.cfg tag
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hey There, I just wanted to know if this legitimate. Depends=*:GUS-VPN/conn Basically, I want to make sure all tests on this host is based on if the VPN link is live to the site first. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599 Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

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xymon-snmpcollect
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Is there some documentation for this command/configuration ? cheers, Martin

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talk to xymond on another port ?
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi ! i want to communicate with the xymond on my server, where a xymonproxy is also running .. The proxy is running with bbproxy --servers=IP.NUM.BER:1985,IP.NUM.BER:1984 So, the xymond is running on port 1985, and the xymonproxy on 1984 Normaly i can make follows e.g.: remote /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb IP.NUM.BER "hobbitdboard fields=hostname" or local /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard fields=hostname" But whats the right command for a request to xymond on a different Port ? Thanks & cheers Martin

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best way to determine if the Xymon server just started?
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I have several server side scripts that give me results I would rather not have soon after a Xymon server restart. What is the best way to determine if Xymon just started? I could poke around a bit, just wondered if someone already had some ideas already implemented. I will do something like exit 1 If xymon just started, otherwise continue. ~David

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