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How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday in British English)?
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Vacation / holiday? What's that? But seriously. Since my Xymon server is a fully capable Linux box, my hobbit-alerts.cfg sends emailto aliases defined in the /etc/aliases. If/when someone wants messages disabled for vacation, I just change the alias to send the message somewhere else. I like this method as it prevents needing to make changes to my fairly complex/convoluted hobbit-alerts.cfg file and an errant update to the hobbit-alerts.cfg could cause alerting to not work. I don't use a native SMS gateway and instead use the cell provider's email to text/SMS gateway. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "SebA" <spa at syntec.co.uk> > To: <xymon at xymon.com> > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:30:18 +0100 > Subject: How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday > in British English)? > Hi all, > > I'm interested in the different ways that people handle alerts when they > are > on > vacation (holiday in British English)... I'm (still!) migrating from Big > Brother BTF (still mostly use that for alerts, Xymon for the rest), and if > I > > went on vacation, I'd just put 1 line at the bottom of bb-alerts excluding > me > from all alerts (as they get SMSed to my mobile) and someone else would get > them (as I was never the only one to get them anyway). But you can't do > that > in Hobbit / Xymon (as I posted about last year). > >

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HTML e-mails to this list are silently dropped?
by dwdaniel＠vcu.edu 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Return Receipt Your [xymon] HTML e-mails to this list are silently dropped? document: was received by: at: 10/08/2010 15:01:16

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How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday in British English)?
by spa＠syntec.co.uk 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all, I'm interested in the different ways that people handle alerts when they are on vacation (holiday in British English)... I'm (still!) migrating from Big Brother BTF (still mostly use that for alerts, Xymon for the rest), and if I went on vacation, I'd just put 1 line at the bottom of bb-alerts excluding me from all alerts (as they get SMSed to my mobile) and someone else would get them (as I was never the only one to get them anyway). But you can't do that in Hobbit / Xymon (as I posted about last year). So how do you do it, or what do you recommend for a network containing a variety of different machines, routers, O/Ses and services, where the primary, secondary and tertiary responsibilities for each service may be different people depending on the service - in the case where one of those people goes on vacation? A few ways I can think of doing it using features I know already exist: 1. have a distinct e-mail address for each person that receives alerts, that should only receive alerts and no other e-mails, and then redirecting that address to another person when they go on holiday and then redirecting back to the original person when they come back (has the downsides of meaning that the other person gets all their alerts, even if they are not the most suitable person or getting those alerts anyway and so ending up with 2 copies of them - particularly annoying if they are SMSes like we use; another downside is remembering to put it back when you get back from holiday) 2. going through all the services for which the person going on vacation receives alerts, and changing them so that they go to someone else... Has the downsides of the tedium involved in doing it and reverting it... Might be easier if you have a special macro for each set of changes, e.g. PersonA->PersonB, PersonA->PersonC and PersonA->Person C is 3 macros... It is easy to change the macro when you get back (if you remember). 3. following on from #2, I suppose instead of defining macros for each recipient (which is already one layer of abstraction better then the 'default'), you could define a macro for each set of primary, secondary and tertiary recipients (although that could make quite a few permutations in a large office). Then you just have to change each of those macros when someone goes on holiday, and then again when they get back. 4. A custom script, possibly with a database and putting all the intelligence in there (but that probably doesn't help others here, unless the script is publicly available). 5. Er, and passing mobile (cell) phones back and forth - leaving your work mobile with someone else when you have the day off - but that only works if you have a work mobile! And then there are the ways using features that have not so far been built: 1. being able to define vacations (I know public holidays has been added to a revent version) for recipients, when they start and when they finish... being able to set a VACATIONRECIPIENT who gets the alert if the first recipient is on vacation (they will need to not get it if they are listed as the 2nd recipient too) 2. as above, but without the VACATIONRECIPIENT. Instead if one of the recipients is defined as on vacation, all the others automatically shift up in terms of any DURATION> required before sending them an alert 3. having the exclude feature that BB had, but, althought that was easy to do before going on holiday, it was a poor solution anyway in terms of handling of alerts 4. some other way... I'm not going to spend too much time thinking of them now when there may be a good solution already! ;) Kind regards, SebA No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.448 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3149 - Release Date: 10/07/10 18:34:00

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test... ignore if this reaches the list
by dwdaniel＠vcu.edu 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Return Receipt Your [xymon] test... ignore if this reaches the list document: was received by: at: 10/08/2010 13:17:56

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test... ignore if this reaches the list
by spa＠syntec.co.uk 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

I've been trying to send a message to this list for a few weeks now and it never comes back to me as a subscriber or goes into the hobbit archives so I guess it's being silently deleted somewhere (no reject message either), so a little test with a simple message to see whether it was something in my message that was not liked, or whether it is (just) due to move from hobbit to xymon or something else screwing with the subscriptions... Kind regards, SebA

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hobbit-alerts.cfg question
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all The alerting is starting to take shape but I've a question regarding how the alerting works. If I have a stanza similar to the following, how is it evaluated? Once for all hosts, or for one host at a time? --- HOST=%.* # Proliant tests MAIL sms at somecompany.com SERVICE=proliant FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=1440m MAIL sms at somecompany.com SERVICE=proliant FORMAT=SMS RECOVERED # conn where status is RED MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn EXPAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn EXPAGE=dev RECOVERED # conn where status is RED (dev/test) MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn PAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=conn PAGE=dev RECOVERED # cpu,disk,memory where status is RED MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory EXPAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m MAIL sms at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory EXPAGE=dev RECOVERED # Dev servers MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory PAGE=dev REPEAT=1440m MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory PAGE=dev RECOVERED # Non-dev status YELLOW MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=yellow SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory REPEAT=1440m DURATION>30m MAIL email at somecompany.com COLOR=yellow SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory RECOVERED --- Also, I've noticed that when a fault occurs I get two emails (or sms') and another when the fault is rectified. I'm thinking this is because of the 'RECOVERED' line but i thought this would only trigger when the fault goes. Have I misunderstood? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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how to configure "disk" alerts to only a specific partition?
by tsztur＠gmail.com 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

So we have a few partitions on one of our systems. One particular partition goes up to 99-100% at times which is normal. We do not want to get alerts for this partition. We are only concerned about the others. How can I set xymon/hobbit to ignore certain partitions from being checked and/or alerted on? TIA. tom.

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Problem with disk monitoring
by shailesh.paudyal＠gmail.com 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

All, Please see below, there is a problem with disk monitoring on one of the server. Can some one tell me if I did something wrong? W]d Jul 28 10:34:31 EDT 2010 - Filesystems NOT ok 7% / (8816628% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 38% /u01 (90371708% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 2% /tmp (9254468% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 34% /usr (6261556% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 18% /opt (7775588% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 4% /var (13653064% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 3% /home (27514896% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 30% /boot (67864% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 14% /u02 (1697518148% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 94% /u03 (136865636% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem 10 4-b]ocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda9 9920592 591896 8816628 7% / /dev/sda10 152435112 54195172 90371708 38% /u01 /dev/sda8 9920592 154056 9254468 2% /tmp /dev/sda7 9920592 3146968 6261556 34% /usr /dev/sda6 9920592 1632936 7775588 18% /opt /dev/sda5 14877060 456092 13653064 4% /var /dev/sda3 29753588 702880 27514896 3% /home /dev/sda1 101086 28003 67864 30% /boot /dev/mapper/VolGroup02-u02 2064204960 261831260 1697518148 14% /u02 /dev/mapper/VolGroup03-u03 2064204960 1822483772 136865636 94% /u03 -- Shailesh K. Paudyal shailesh.paudyal at gmail.com

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Where is development going on in SVN?
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

I have been using xymon compiled from about 6+ months ago. I have used the old "hobbitmon" project. I found some issues with the 4.2 version and tried branches/4.3.0 and branches/4.4.0. It looked like 4.3 and 4.4 were mostly the same so I went with 4.4.0. I found that I needed to patch quite a few files to get things working right. This was all prior to the hobbit->xymon changes. Now I was asked to setup another monitoring server and thought I would try out the new project. I was looking at the SVN to see if anything I had to patch was fixed but I am confused as to where to look for the latest revisions. Looking at the last few commits it looks like they have been going into "trunk". Looking at revisions it looks like branches/4.4.0 is newer than trunk. So what is the development area? "trunk" or "branches"? I want to also see if the patches I created are still needed and if so then would like to somehow get them into the repo. Thanks

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maxdelay option
by Daniel.Nordquist＠orlandohealth.com 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hello all, I've been trying to find a way to set my uptime reporting option globally but I can't find a way. I know I can do it individually with each monitored servers bbwin.cfg file and setting a maxdelay, but does anyone know of a way to do it globally? I know I can eliminate the column, but we do want to see recent reboots while we don't want to see servers that have been up "too long" on the bb2 page. Much appreciated! Dan This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

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