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Loris Serena is out of the office.
by loris.serena＠pncgis.ie 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I will be out of the office starting 05/08/2009 and will not return until 15/08/2009. Please contact itsupport at pncgis.ie with any queries.

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conn test stuck on red
by leon＠one.co.il 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I'm using version 4.3.0-beta2 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server. I've experienced some ISP networking problems this morning, which made Xymon mark all the connections red. After a few minutes the network went back to normal, but the red "lights" stayed on. It was only the conn test, all the other including telnets to port 80 were green. I tried restarts and such - nothing helped. The only thing that did help was "apt-get dpkg-reconfigure". The one thing that I did notice is that it always tried to ping an OpenDNS server, as this is the one I have in resolv.conf. What I wanted to ask is if there are any ways to remove some cache or temp files instead of doing dpkg-reconfigure as it's a bit of an ugly solution, although absolutely clean and fast - took me 5 seconds without loosing any data. Thanks, Lenny. P.S. btw, I still have a problem with ms-sql and ftp ports always red, no matter what I do. Any advice on that?

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bb-hosts,number o0f columns error
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello, I have 3 pages on the main page.Inside each page,i have subpages arranged in fallowing fashion: bb-hosts file: title Main Grid page rack001 Nodegroup title Nodegroup1 subpage rack900 Row1-Rack6 conn group-only conn 172.29.1.49 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.50 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.51 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.52 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.53 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.54 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # subpage rack901 cpu group-only cpu 0.0.0.0 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn . . . . subpage rack909 group-only automount 0.0.0.0 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn page rack002 Gridgroup title Gridgroup1 subpage rack521 Row5-Rack2 conn group-only conn 172.29.2.9 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.10 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.11 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.12 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.13 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.14 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.15 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.16 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # subpage rack1299 cpu group-only cpu 0.0.0.0 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn . . . subpage rack12109 raid group-only raid 0.0.0.0 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn and so on like this ... ------------------------------------- my page 1 has 9 columns total for all tests(total 9 tests) whereas page 2 has 10 columns total for all tests(total 10 tests).Now number of columns to be displayed is given in BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --subpagecolumns=9" in "hobbitserver.cfg" in hobbit server etc directory.But if two or more pages have different number of columns ;then how and where it should be specified so that i will have 10 columns on page 2 and 9 columns on page 1. "--subpagecolumns" takes only one number as arguments.how to do this? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Create xymon debian package?
by bol＠bth.se 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi A question from a "non developer" I have compiled and installed xymon-4.3.0-beta2 and now i want to create a debian package from it, easily. I have packaged xymon before, but "manually".....created the controlfile, post- and pre-script, start script and so one... :( Now i notice that make have created a debian map with all the goodies in it.....but how can i use it easily? OR have someone already made a debian package? /Bengt

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wml generation to only include whats on bb2?
by j.sansford＠ntlworld.com 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi guys - I'm currently generating wml pages using the --wml tag, but it seems to show up every single non green alert. I would like it to show just the alerts on the bb2.html page. Is this possible? I use the "nobbb2" tag on certain hosts to stop them showing on bb2.html, and I'd like the wml pages to do the same. Many thanks James

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problem with bb-hosts;different columns on differemt pagea and subpae
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hello, 2 change no of columns to be dsplayrd with each type of display(page age) -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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external tests for hp-ilo and hl-health utilities
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

hi, i have xymon clients 4.2.2 on hp servers.wt are the commands related to hp-ilo and hl-health packages in linux so that i can wrtite external scripts for it. -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Ricardas Vaitkus is out of the office.
by Ricardas.Vaitkus＠seb.lt 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I will be out of the office starting 01/08/2009 and will not return until 10/08/2009. All EOD task are doing Vaidas Juzonis and Albertas Anisovičius. All monitoring questions I will respond when I return

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Monitoring SMB shares
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I want a "shares" column to show up for each file server that has smb shares indicating whether or not the shares are accessible. In a perfect world, I would like to monitor these SMB shares from the xymon server itself vs from a client. In my mind, the xymon server would have a server side script that would allow me to add "shares:Public", "shares:Users", etc. to the listings in BB-HOSTS. In fact, I had found this solution on DeadCat called "shares" that is meant to be setup on a BB server. However, it mentioned editing bbdef.sh to include shares.sh in the BBEXT variable and I just didn't know where to do this in Xymon Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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[Hobbit] URLPlus interest - looking for feedback
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

For those of you who have been around here for a while, you will have noticed that I've been somewhat absent of late. The short story is, I have changed jobs and just don't get as many opportunities to check in as I used to. This also means I have left my reasons for working on URLPlus behind, which is why development of it has stopped. The purpose of this post is because I have gotten a few requests from time to time about URLPlus, and I'm curious what the interest in me getting back to developing it would be. I've been out of the loop as far as new features in the latest version of Hobbit being worked on, but from what I understand, while there are more web page monitoring features built-in, there are still some things where URLPlus could be useful. So, I would be interested in the following feedback: 1) Is there still demand for more robust website content checking features than what Hobbit supports out of the box? 2) If so, what are the features missing in Hobbit that people are looking for? 3) For those who have chosen to use URLPlus, what are the reasons for that, versus using some other Hobbit plugin (or for that matter, some other monitoring tool)? 4) Finally, for those that are using URLPlus, what additional features would you like to see it be capable of doing? -Gary

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