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Network test performed on hostname instead of IP
by meepmeep＠fantasya.org 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi I use xymon to monitor a couple of irc server from my network. The bb-host file looks like this : 1.1.1.1 irc1.domain.tld # telnet:6667 2.2.2.2 irc2.domain.tld # telnet:6667 3.3.3.3 irc2.domain.tld # telnet:6667 4.4.4.4 hub1.domain.tld # telnet:6667 I works great until today : 1/ irc2.domain.tld goes down => xymon send me an alert => Monitoring works great ! 2/ I change the DNS of irc2.domain.tld to "CNAME irc.domain.tld" (round robin on other ircX.domain.tld) to redirect user. 3/ 5 minutes after the propagation of the new dns ... xymon says that irc2.domain.tld is back online (which is right for the dns, but not for the IP address ...) I check the "conn" page of "irc2.domain.tld", and it gives an ip from the round robin of irc.domain.tld ==> So, before making the test, xymon resolves the hostname instead of directly using the IP address.). For me, the hostname is only here to show something "digest" on the web page, I would like to run every test on the ip (including conn and telnet on my case).... Any idea on a way to change this ? -- Nicolas G. / meepmeep [EuropNet.org Admin]

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Question about Server Status Forwarding
by captkras＠gmail.com 12 May '10

12 May '10

We are starting to deploy multiple "collector" servers. What we want is to have Hobbit Server A collect from it's local group, Server B to collect from its local group, and Server C to collect for its local group. (By local group, I mean IP address and physical location space). Then we want to have Server A and Server C send the status messages that they have collected to Server B. I THOUGHT all that needed to be done was to put in the following: [snip from hobbitserver.cfg on Server A] BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="<Server A IP>,<Server B IP>" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0 However, it appears that all the entries that are being forwarded are coming in as ghosts. Is there something else I need to do on ServerB? Or on the client side? Should I be using BB-proxy? There isn't any firewall or proxying between the groups. Dave -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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Custom graphs in Xymon
by camis＠mweb.co.za 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi.. I'm having an issue with creating a system graph in Xymon. The script outputs the following on the page: ----------------------------- Fri May 7 16:42:19 SAST 2010 edge01 : 5 edge02 : 7 edge03 : 2 edge04 : 6 hobbitgraph ncv:fmsconns Zoom graph ----------------------------- Its a script to monitor concurrent connections so its value goes up and down. In hobbitserver.cfg, i have the following: TEST2RRD="cpu=la,cpu2=la[......],fmsconns=ncv" GRAPHS="la,disk[...........],fmsconns" NCV_fmsconns="edge01:GAUGE,edge02:GAUGE" in hobbitgraph.cfg [fmsconns] TITLE Fmsconns info YAXIS Connections DEF:pct=fmsconns.rrd:util:AVERAGE LINE2:pct#00CC00:NParts GPRINT:pct:LAST: \: %3.1lf (cur) GPRINT:pct:MAX: \: %3.1lf (max) GPRINT:pct:MIN: \: %3.1lf (min) GPRINT:pct:AVERAGE: \: %3.1lf (avg)\n On the I used the howto @ http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/howtograph.html as a guideline but its clear i'm lacking some understanding. I'm guessing the contents in hobbitgraph.cfg is off as i'm doing an rrdtool dump and the output looks ok? <lastupdate> 1273230835 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> jhbedge01optinetnet </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> NaN </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 4 </last_ds> <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> jhbedge02optinetnet </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> NaN </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 3 </last_ds> <value> 7.9207920792e-02 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> Anyone have any ideas/tips? Regards, Cami

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status file to column issue
by pnixon＠gmail.com 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hey all, I have a pull environment setup and I've configured the script to append to the status file and read into xymon appropriately. However, it's not create the column for the test and displaying the results. Any suggestions on how to proceed with this? client cw-moremagic2.linux [date] Mon May 10 18:38:00 BST 2010 [uname] Linux moremagic2 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp i686 [osversion] Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 7) [uptime] 18:38:00 up 564 days, 16:41, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.08 .... [vmstat] procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 119976 42496 14624 3721812 0 0 2 5 0 0 2 1 97 0 0 0 119972 56384 15440 3707748 0 0 1 65 1026 186 1 0 99 0 [tablespace] INDEX1 : 13.2 SYSAUX : 63.9 SYSTEM : 65.4 TABLES1 : 37.5 UNDOTBS1 : .9 USERS : 8.8 [clock] epoch: 1273513087.077486 local: 2010-05-10 18:38:07 BST UTC: 2010-05-10 17:38:07 GMT

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Once a month downtime
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 11 May '10

11 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I know that you can set the downtime parameter in the hosts file, which will mark the test disabled and cancel alerts for that particular window. However, I have downtime that will occur on, say, second Tuesday of the month. I currently do this through crontab with BigBrother and can do so with Xymon, I just think it's unfortunate that it will not show up on the "info" page for the server. Is there any way to something that will somehow show on that page? It's nice to know the service schedule at a glance, rather than have someone need to hunt through config files to see the information. Thanks for any pointers! - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvptB0ACgkQmb+gadEcsb4L/QCeNBIhE8YtzBTBzDSlgBe8x8Oc CMEAoK0hCzEg3EEOP1Qwuk5Gy01c5ydS =B9TW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Clientupdate problems
by rdeal＠jcvi.org 11 May '10

11 May '10

Does anyone have clientupdate working reliably for a large number of machines? I noticed a problem with clientupdate failing on our 4.2.0 server and tracked it down that once a few clients seem to request the update the server stops sending the file. The clients however happily update the clientversion.cfg and thus never attempt to get the file again. After upgrading to 4.2.3, the problem is the same. Anyone else see this? I have read some of the back forum messages and it sounds line several others have run up against this same problem but there doesn't seem to be a solution. Butch

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disregard earlier email
by charlesdillard＠hotmail.com 06 May '10

06 May '10

Please disregard earlier email. Problem solved. Apparently when your hobbit configure script runs it offers an option of using a native fping or not. There is no option. fping must be installed or the hobbit server will not be able to ping clients. Can someone fix the configure script to reflect this? Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------- Charles T. Dillard Cell: 571 264 0514 Office: 202 616 2149 ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28…

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Where file modify user administrator and password
by maynard.suarez＠dch.cantv.com.ve 06 May '10

06 May '10

Where file modify user administrator and password i can't acknowledge alarm. Sorry my english is not very good looking. -- Maynard J Suarez M Operaciones 7*24 0416-6302425 0212-9060200

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red conn lights in xymon
by charlesdillard＠hotmail.com 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, I’m installing xymon 4.2.3 on a Dell 1950 with a Redhat RHEL 5 64 bit OS. I first install rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm rrdtool-devel-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm pcre-8.01.zip then xymon-4.2.3.tar.gz After I start httpd and xymon, two aspects of monitoring fail: 1. the conn test is always red for the 90 or so servers we monitor and 2. the http [wget] test is white on the four web servers we run. We monitor both Windows 2003 servers and mostly Redhat AS 3 servers. The other monitoring tests like disk and cpu work. netstat –van shows port 1984 is up and listening. The output on the xymon startup is what I would call nominal. hobbit 4.2.0 has worked for years on a Redhat AS 3 server at our agency. We’re trying to upgrade here to RHEL 5. I’ve tried substituting hobbit 4.2.0 for xymon with the same results. The use of yum is not an option for installation on our USDOJ network. Any ideas on why I’m getting red? ----------------------------------------------------------- Charles T. Dillard Cell: 571 264 0514 Office: 202 616 2149 ----------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID2…

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apt handling in Hobbit for Debian/Ubuntu Linux
by pto＠linuxbog.dk 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hi all I have Xymon/hobbit monitoring a Debian box, which has a nice SERVICE=apt monitor on it. I often see that an update is needed - typically it comes 5 minutes AFTER I leave my server :) Thus I often have my server showing yellow service flag for the apt-service until I get home in the evening. I can obviously acknowledge this warning from the Xymon web-interface, but has anyone of you been extending Xymon for handling apt-updating via the webinterface? (During daytime I do not have ssh access to the server - and I know that I could install webmin to solve this) Best Peter Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto at linuxbog.dk] http://petertoft.dk I blog at http://www.version2.dk/blogs/petertoft

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