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Critical alerts page and acks
by lebarber＠gmail.com 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

I am having a problem with the nkview page. "Acked" alerts do not disappear off the page, they stay on the Critical Systems page, without even a check mark to indicate that they have been acked. The check mark does show up on the normal page for that host and the acknowledgment text is displayed on the test page. Has anybody seen behavior like this, or have any idea what could be causing it? Thanks, Larry Barber

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TS - YELLOW problem in history
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

I have a problem on a Windows server/PC that shows YELLOW on UP-TIME using the BBWin server? The server has been rebooted many times, etc. The History shows: Top of Form Bottom of Form 2009-Dec-18 09:10:41 [netsupport.csw.L-3com.com] - uptime machine has been up more than 365 days 2040 days 20 hours 2 minutes 46 seconds Status unchanged in 4 days,3 hours, 37 minutes Status message received from 128.170.7.16 The XYMON system has only been up for less than a year? This server also shows in the event log that: Top of Form Bottom of Form 2009-Dec-18 09:12:30 [netsupport.csw.L-3com.com] application: warning - 2009/12/18 09:05:10 - OMCI (1253) - n/a "Chassis intrusion detected. This typically does NOT indicate a hardware failure. 1. Contact your Help Desk if you did not personally open your chassis. 2. Enter System Setup & Set Chassis Intrusion to 'Clear'." application: warning - 2009/12/18 08:35:10 - OMCI (1253) - n/a "Chassis intrusion detected. This typically does NOT indicate a hardware failure. 1. Contact your Help Desk if you did not personally open your chassis. 2. Enter System Setup & Set Chassis Intrusion to 'Clear'." EventLog Statistics: - application 10463 events since 406 days (25.77 events/day) current size is 4544 kb (max size is set to 5120 kb) retention is set to : Overwrite events as needed - internet explorer error : can't get eventlog file path 0 events since 14596 days (0.00 events/day) current size is 0 kb (max size is set to 0 kb) retention is set to : Overwrite events as needed - security 3467 events since 311 days (11.15 events/day) current size is 1600 kb (max size is set to 5120 kb) retention is set to : Overwrite events as needed - system 24253 events since 255 days (95.11 events/day) current size is 5120 kb (max size is set to 5120 kb) retention is set to : Overwrite events as needed Summary: - Events Analyzed: 2 - Events Matched: 2 - Events Ignored: 0 Status unchanged in 2 days,0 hours, 2 minutes Status message received from 128.170.7.16 Can you give me a place to begin correcting this problem. Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D 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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running BB 4.2 and Xymon on the same host
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi, I've just discovered Xymon, I have a Quest BB 4.2 server right now. BB is really buggy and most things don't work, and there is no real support, even though you pay for it... I'm stuck with the BB server for production. I would like to install Xymon on the same server for testing. Is this possible? Maybe I need to change the 1984 port for Xymon bbd. I could just use another virtual host on any port for the apache2 server. The problems I see is the clients sending bb data to both BB and Xymon. And running both BB and Xymon servers on the same host. Any ideas how to set this up? For infrastructure reasons I can't just setup another server, it is a lot of job as the BB server is in a DMZ. All servers are running Solaris 9/10 - Roland

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Problems with Windows Monitoring in Hobbit
by andreas.sin＠itc.alstom.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hello I am a system engineer working in a Windows based environment. Beside NetIQ AppManager, we are monitoring a part of our servers with Hobbit. The central Hobbit server is a Linux RedHat 4.0 machine. The Problem I'm facing is the following: All of our monitored Windows servers are configured in the "central" mode in the local stored config file (BBWin.cfg) as you can see.  <setting name="mode" value="central" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> Normaly in the Web interface they are reporting like this: But when I change from "central" to "local", for enabling for example process monitoring, which by the way works fine, the columns files, ports and timediff are changing their color to purple, because hobbit obviously is no longer able to get/update those data for those columns. I've tried many things to get those columns to "green" or at least to "clear" state, but now I resign. So what I have to do to get those columns working as they do, when the central mode is configured? The BBWin Agent version we are using is 0.11.0.83 Could please someone help? cheers Andreas Kind regards / Freundliche Grüsse Andreas Sin, System Engineer ALSTOM (Switzerland) Ltd. (ITSSC) IT Shared Service Centre _____________________________________________ Group Data Centre Baden Brown Boveri Strasse 7 5401 Baden Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)56 205 12 21 Mobile: +41 (0)79 619 35 36 e-Mail : andreas.sin at itc.alstom.com Mit Alstom das Klima schützen. Ist es wirklich notwendig diese Email zu drucken? With Alstom, preserve the environment. Is printing this email really necessary ? :._______________ VERTRAULICHKEIT: Dieses e-mail und alle angehängten Dateien sind vertraulich und privilegiert. Sollten Sie nicht als namentlicher Empfänger aufgeführt sein, informieren Sie unverzüglich den Absender und machen Sie den Inhalt nicht für Dritte zugänglich, noch darf dieser gedruckt oder für andere Zwecke verwendet, kopiert oder auf irgend einem Medium gespeichert werden. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

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FW: [hobbit] TS - Trying to create an escalation in hobbit-alerts.cfg
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I sent this out 12/4/2009 and got no responses. Can anyone guide me in the correct direction? I also have another request: If I have 10 windows servers that reboot every night between 3-3:30am and I don't want to notify, and wake up, during this timeframe, would I require multiple hobbit-alerts.cfg entries for that server? Of the following lines, which will function correctly? Can I have multiple TIME= options on the HOST= line? Also, does the server understand 0000 = midnight? Or 2400? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED TIME=*:0000:0300 TIME=*:0330:2359 MAIL .... OR - Would this also be acceptable? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0000:0300 TIME=*:0330:2359 OR - Would this also be acceptable? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0000:0300 MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0330:2359 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-- From: d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com [mailto:d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] TS - Trying to create an escalation in hobbit-alerts.cfg It the best way to create an escalation to do it: HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED # EVERYDAY Notify immediately and every 10 minutes MAIL billybob at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=10m HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED TIME=1-5:0000-2359 DURATION>59m # WEEKDAY Notify weekdays after 1 hour and every hour MAIL jimmyjames at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=60m HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn TIME=0,6 RECOVERED DURATION>179m # WEEKEND Notify after 3 hours MAIL hank at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=7d HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn TIME=0,6 RECOVERED DURATION>479m # WEEKEND Notify after 8 hours MAIL jullie at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=7d I don't believe that the DURATION= can be used on the MAIL line only on the HOST= line per the help on the web page. Will this work as stated? If you don't put SERVICE= on the line will it function for all services? Or do you need something line '=*'? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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msgs service
by gatis.anee＠gmail.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, Is it possible to create a seperate msgs columns for a different log files? I mean in an easy way, without custom ext scripts. For instance under default "msgs" column goes all the system logs, but under "msgs_app" goes some application logs.

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la.rrd and users.rrd for one client no longer updated
by andreas.kunberger＠itv-denkendorf.de 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hello, since yesterday for one of my servers la.rrd and users.rrd are no lonfer updated. All other graphs and all culumns are current ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog maise.itv.cpu"|head shows: maise.itv|cpu|green||1261037651|1261042793|1261044593|0|0|192.168.52.33|-1|||Y green Thu Dec 17 10:39:47 CET 2009 , 1 users, 568 procs, load=1.53 System clock is 0 seconds off top - 10:39:48 up 1 day, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.73, 1.51, 1.60 Tasks: 565 total, 2 running, 563 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.0%us, 6.0%sy, 0.4%ni, 71.8%id, 7.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2061484k total, 2037800k used, 23684k free, 100492k buffers Swap: 1558256k total, 7660k used, 1550596k free, 406336k cached Any help? Many Friendly Greetings Andreas -- Netzwerk Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf

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Xymon / Nagios interactivity ?
by fredbo＠club-internet.fr 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi all, I work in an very heterogeneous server farm. We are using a Nagios server to monitor a part of these servers, It is not possible to migrate Nagios to Xymon for the moment. I would like to know if someone have experienced interaction of xymon with nagios , is it possible to integrate some Nagios tests results in Xymon interface ? Regards, Fred.

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question about installing xymon
by kevin＠shadowsoft.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I have a question about installing xymon. After installing the xymon, I have been unable to get the monitoring program up and running via the web browser in linux. We are running Centos 5.3. I copied the info from hobbit-apache.conf into the httpd.conf file but it still doesn't work. Any suggestions? Kevin

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centralized configuration - external scripts
by camorae＠googlemail.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi guys, just like we use the file hobbit-clients.cfg to manage DISK, CPU, PROCS etc. for each client, we would like to have a centralized configuration for the external scripts. So far I tested two things: 1) Server-side check: bb-hosts entry (for the external scripts), additional code entry in the external scripts (for bbhostgrep), etc. Problem: this seems to work only with "Network checks" which will be done from Server-side to check the clients, like advanced ftp/ping/ssh script etc. It doesnt work for scripts, wich have to run on the clients, like mysql checks. 2) ONHOST: the entry ONHOST in the hobbitlaunch.cfg. Problem: this is not working for me... i tought with this entry Hobbit would be able to issue an order to the client and then execute the command in the client, but when looking into the logfiles, i see that Hobbit have to find the external script on the Hobbit-Server (i think its the same result as in Problem 1). I tought it would work as a "bb-bbextab"... but the MAN Pages says it has to be configured on the server.... So guys, do i have another way to manage this external scripts (which have to be run on the clients) in the Hobbit-Server? TIA, Cayo

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