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hobbit/xymon delete column the 100th ;-)
by u.weber＠uweber.de 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hello Henrik, I've a really trivial question and I hope so you can help me. I've send columns in UPERCASE by mistake. Then I delete all this columns with .bb IP "drop HOST TEST". All data was deleted on the hobbit/xymon-Server , also in ./hist and ./histlogs and so on. Now I would like send the columns at lowercase. I do this, however on the display I can see again the columns in UPERCASE. What can I do? Regards Uwe

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[hobbit] New Big Brother interface
by m.hofstra＠detamboer.nl 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

> ________________________________ > > From: josh at imaginenetworksllc.com > > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:58:27 -0500 > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > Subject: [hobbit] New Big Brother interface > > > > Has anyone seen this? This is just crazy... > > > > http://www.bb4.com/bb4-screenshot-tour/index.html > > > > Please don't ever let Xymon go down this road. > > How about this one ? at > http://xymon.dlinkddns.com/hobbit/ext3/examples/desktop/ > It provide interface for old Tigra menu system and new UI by > EXTJS RIA framework. That last one doesn't seem to add anything useful with the modified GUI... kind of silly. The bb4.com one however isn't all that bad, take page 8 for example, that gives me lots of info that may be very useful (page faults/second, cache hits/second), I can't find that stuff on my hobbit server atm (and certainly not in such a orderly fashion on only one page). It's the core functionality I really care about. As long as the GUI isn't stopping me from doing usefull stuff (for example, not allowing me to edit config files manually anymore or adding custom scripts), I don't see the problem. That said, I am however happy to stick with xymon. If bb4 has a nice feature, just nick the idea and do it the xymon way!:) -Marijn

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Critical Systems - Setup
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

I am running Xymon-4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.3. When I login to Administration à Edit Critical Systems and enter the following values: HOST: Linksys-118 TEST: conn I fill in 'Resolver group:' and 'Instructions:' Then click 'Update record' button On my old system the line 'Last update by:' is updated. On my new system, nothing changes and no entry is created when you search for it. Do I have permissions incorrect on some file? Where are these entries stored? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\|||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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Reprocessing all data
by palann＠gmail.com 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi, This is a newbie question but how do I go about reprocessing all data? As I understand if xymon is monitor syslog, entries will gradually fade away in the monitor. That makes me believe there is an internal clock in xymon telling it to check all data since last check date. I tried to rename "data" directories erasing previous histories but that just give me a error. Can I set that internal clock to NULL or some date? I can also reprocess all data by blowing away and re-installing xymon. - David

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Garbled http test.
by lebarber＠gmail.com 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

For the http test on just one of my hosts, on a red condition, I'm getting a garbled display: Mon Nov 2 18:57:24 2009: Ϫ��$��4Ϫ��$�� [image: red] http://xrdmr1s1.ess.usda.gov:9060/ibm/console - Ϫ��$��4Ϫ��$�� Ϫ��$��4Ϫ��$�� Seconds: 0.18 Note that it is the Hobbit generated error message that is confused. Has anybody else seen something like this? Any idea what is causing it? Thanks, Larry Barber

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Funky TOP output
by ejacobs＠thomaspublishing.com 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Xymon 4.2.3 client running on RHE4 (update 3). When I click on CPU I get the output of top, but it is wrong (Load average may be correct, but list of processes running is not). I checked the data being built in tmp directory on client, and it is wrong there also, so I am sure it has something to do with client. Eric Jacobs Infrastructure and Operations Information Technology Group Phone:215-682-5354 Email:ejacobs at thomaspublishing.com

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Alerting on UP / DOWN
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I am running Xymon-4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.3. When I create a bash shell script to be used from the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, I only receive one alert for going DOWN and one for RECOVERY. Is this by design? Do you only get multiple alerts for down if you request them? REPEAT=30m I have monitor2 watching monitor1 and if connectivity fails, it assumes the responsibilities of monitor1 until monitor1 is available. The script watches for events DOWN (1st time) and RECOVER to move the appropriate files for alerting. I have both systems monitoring but only one alerting. The files are kept current by using RSYNC between the two systems. This also creates a backup of each system on the opposite system for a re-build. The seconds question is then, if I want to have an escalation to the next level up, do I have to use the same HOST entry or do I create a separate one? HOST=monitor1.csw.l-3com.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED DURATION>9m MAIL D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com COLOR=red REPEAT=4d SCRIPT /home/xymon/SCRIPTS/takeover.sh 911 2nd entry for escalation: HOST=monitor1.csw.l-3com.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED DURATION>1h MAIL The.Boss at L-3Com.com COLOR=red REPEAT=4d Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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Marek MODRZYNSKI is out of the office.
by marek.modrzynski＠itc.alstom.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I will be out of the office starting 2009-11-02 and will not return until 2009-11-05. I will not be available in the office tommorow and the day after ie: 16-17 Sept 2009. Will be back on Friday 18.09.2009

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Sub-Page notifications
by wshart＠hormel.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Has anyone tried to use the "page" setting in hobbit-alerts ? I've noticed a couple of things with it, one isn't a huge deal, the other one is. The first thing I noticed was that page only works for the primary listing on the machines, so if you have a #noconn setting that page won't work with the page tag in hobbit-alerts.cfg The next thing that is a much bigger problem is that we have a sub-Page that we wanted to have alerts on, but that doesn't seem to trigger on the "page" tag either. Is there any work-around on this ? It would be nice to be able to utilize the sub page notifications since we have to maintain those lists anyway for our various groups. Otherwise I can re-(re-)organize the bb-hosts file without the subpage settings, but that isn't optimal necessarily either. Thanks, Bill Hart Technical Services Associate Systems Programmer Notice: This communication is an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ? 2510. Its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient(s) intended by the sender of this message. This transmission and any attachments may contain proprietary, confidential, attorney-client privileged information and/or attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, reliance on, or use of any of the information contained herein is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any matter and confirm by return email.

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problem installing client on Snow Leopard server
by brian.weslowski＠tessarae.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I am trying to install the Xymon client on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (10.6.1). I had it running fine on my Tiger server before I upgraded, but now cannot install on Snow Leopard. I've tried both the 4.2.3 and 4.3.0 beta 2 packages but get the same errors with both. Has anyone else tried this yet? The errors I got when running "./configure --client; make" are below. Thank you. Brian Weslowski Director of Information Technology TessArae, LLC 46090 Lake Center Plaza, Suite 304 Potomac Falls, VA 20165 703-444-7188 x108 brian.weslowski at tessarae.com http://www.tessarae.com Created Makefile with the necessary information to build Xymon Some defaults are used, so do look at the Makefile before continuing. Configuration complete - now run make (GNU make) to build the tools CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT - DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin - I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DDarwin" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="" LIBRTDEF="" BBTOPDIR="/Users/xymon" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="10.0.1.5" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client gcc -g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 - D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin -I. -I/Users/ administrator/Downloads/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../ include -o test-endianness test-endianness.c In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:61, from test-endianness.c:17: ./Availability.h:18: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:32: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:43: error: expected ')' before 'duration' ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' In file included from test-endianness.c:17: /usr/include/stdlib.h:289: error: expected ',' or ';' before '__OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPRECATED' make[1]: *** [test-endianness] Error 1 make: *** [lib-client] Error 2

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