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Faulty downtime
by URMM＠VM.MARIST.EDU 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

We're running the 4.3.0.0-beta2 level of Xymon, but saw this problem with the previous beta level too. The downtime option in bb-hosts does not seem to work for servers that are running a Xymon client. No matter how you set it (i.e. what days or times), the tests never go blue. It does show up as planned downtime when you display the "Info" about the server, but it never actually happens. (Consequently, alerts are generated during the outage time.) The downtime option works fine for servers that are not running a client, though. Has anyone else seen this? I suspect this is a bug. Any ideas how to work around it? Martha McConaghy Marist College IT

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Hobbit HTTP Monitor Anomalies
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

So, last weekend, we had a huge conference call because two Production HTTPS URL's that we monitor with Hobbit were getting timeouts exceeding 30 seconds. No other URL's on the Hobbit Server that we monitor were getting any types of timeouts. I have two Hobbit Servers, located at two physical sites, Production & Development. The Production Hobbit Server said that no timeouts occurred on the two HTTPS URL's. However, the Development Hobbit Server (which is the primary monitoring server), indicated that the URL's were timing out. So, the only difference appeared to be in the network. However, our network team looked at the network and showed no latency, and the placed a sniffer on the Development Hobbit Server and saw all HTTPS packets coming back without timeouts. Early this week, we placed a box that sniffs that network and can monitor for specific events. In this case, it's connected to the same network as the Development Hobbit Server, and its monitoring the HTTPS request to the two URL's. Last night, I received timeouts from Hobbit on the URLs, but the sniffer showed not such timeouts. I've checked the Hobbit server, CPU, Load, Network, all the graphs don't show any correlation to the timeouts. Does anyone have any ideas on this puzzle? Thanks..James

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external module/plugin/script for ticket raising or inventory for xymon
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

>i want to know whether there is any availability for >external module/plugin/script for ticket raising or inventory for >xymon-4.2.2.i found one o deadcat.net i.e. "trouble_ticket_0.2.tgz";but is >not that much useful..we want to keep record for all tickets raised for that >client also some inventory like module for the same I have used the trouble ticket module you found on deadcat with great success with Big Brother logging and updating tickets in a Remedy help desk. Xymon is not an inventory system. I suggest you modify trouble_ticket to work with Xymon. Make it log tickets in your current help desk system. You would get a list of tickets raised from your help desk system. Either integrate your help desk system with an inventory system or you can make each Xymon hostname clickable, it can call a script to get info from your inventory system. If you don't have a help desk system Request Tracker is a popular one. Craig

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"procs" checks are not working
by camorae＠googlemail.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Well, after reading the Man Pages of the "hobbit-clients.cfg" I tried to monitor some process in a Linux-Client. I defined it in the hobbitclients.cfg some processes to check but i always get a clear status wich the following message: "Processes NOT ok" I've been searching in the mailing list for a while, but i couldnt find a solid solution to this problem. I saw something about the msg file in the /hobbit/client/tmp/ path, but i couldnt follow that... Do i have to do something else after puting the "PROC cron", etc.... into the hobbitclients.cfg? Thanks, Cayo ps: with my old BB-Clients it works perfectly.

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xmon 4.3beta2 - Bug with --tooltips=never
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

I have added the documented option "--tooltips=never" to my BBGENOPTS setting. Documented behavior is to show the COMMENT next to the host name (same as with Hobbit 4.2). However, in 4.3 this also is showing the value of any DESCR tag on the host, which is not compatible behavior, and is ugly (the DESCR value used to be only included on the INFO page). -Alan

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external module/plugin/script for ticket raising or inventory for xymon
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

hello, i want to know whether there is any availability for external module/plugin/script for ticket raising or inventory for xymon-4.2.2.i found one o deadcat.net i.e. "trouble_ticket_0.2.tgz";but is not that much useful..we want to keep record for all tickets raised for that client also some inventory like module for the same -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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webpage: adding links to the index
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hello everyone. I've ran into some trouble and am wondering how to add a link to the main page of xymon. I was able to do it and it would appear but it would always reset. Is xymon constantly regenerating every time? How can i add a permanent link on the main page? I've tried to edit the index.html in the /www/ directory but it would reset. I've also added another html document in the /www/notes/responsibilities.html for the link so when there is a problem the person monitoring can know who to call. Any help would be appreciated. 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. 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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How to disable standard columns?
by camorae＠googlemail.com 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hi guys, I want to disable some standard columns (files and ports) but every time I remove these colomns, they come back with the next check. I dont know if its the right way to disable the "ports" column, but I uncommented these lines in hobbitclient-aix.sh and its disabled now: #echo "[ports]" #netstat -an | grep "^tcp" For the "files" column I couldnt find anything to uncomment. Does someone know how to disable it? TIA, Cayo

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Solution for rrd error on "minimum one second step" for ifstat.mac.rrd
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

This is a write up of my recent effort to debug and understand error message in rrd-[status|data].log files. What is the problem ? xymon(hobbit) client can send two pairs of data at the same time stamp. "/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'| sort" will give out wrsmd and mac info on a solaris 10 box. and causing bge:1:mac:obytes64 try to overwrite bge:0:mac:obytes64, thus the error of "minimum one second step" 1. with wrsmd filtered out only hobbit at test$ /usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|egrep -v wrsmd | sort bge:0:bge0:obytes64 50828816355 bge:0:bge0:rbytes64 81490514060 bge:0:mac:obytes64 50828816355 bge:0:mac:rbytes64 81490514060 bge:1:mac:obytes64 0 bge:1:mac:rbytes64 0 bge:2:mac:obytes64 0 bge:2:mac:rbytes64 0 bge:3:mac:obytes64 0 bge:3:mac:rbytes64 0 2. My Solution, filtering out both wrsmd and mac. let me know if you have better one. hobbit at test$ /usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|egrep -v 'wrsmd|mac' | sort bge:0:bge0:obytes64 50829477390 bge:0:bge0:rbytes64 81501640315 hobbits at test$ PS: ifstat is using kstat. but kstat is only avaiable for Solaris 8 and above. so if you have solaris 2.6,2.7 machines, ifstat section need to be disabled in hobbitclient-sunos.sh. T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutori…

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fping options for speed
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

I understand most people run fping rather than hobbitping due to the issues with hobbitping not accurately reporting the roundtrip times... but running fping on 4100+ hosts can take up to 120 seconds in my environment, it seems. Has anyone used any specific options on their FPING configuration setting to optimize fping performance for this purpose? Thanks for any suggestions. -Alan

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