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Exclude alerts on weekends
by km＠keithm.us 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi all, Just a general Xymon question. What is the best way to exclude certain days in Xymon alerts? For example the statement below will limit alerts to 7AM through 9 PM but how would I exclude Saturday and Sunday from this same alert? PAGE=%.*/page_name SERVICE=conn COLOR=red TIME=*:0700:2100 mail user1 at domain.net DURATION>50 REPEAT=8h RECOVERED

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[hobbit] Exclude alerts on weekends
by GThomas＠fairdinkum.com 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Believe if you change the * to a W in the TIME argument then you will restrict the alert to Weekdays. So change: TIME=*:0700:2100 to: TIME=W:0700:2100 Believe I saw that in the bb-hosts man page. W for week days or 0-6 for a specific day - useful if you want to IGNORE a particular day, such as Sunday or day and time for scheduled downtime. -----Original Message----- From: Meserole, Keith W. [mailto:km at keithm.us] Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 08:34 PM Eastern Standard Time To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Exclude alerts on weekends Hi all, Just a general Xymon question. What is the best way to exclude certain days in Xymon alerts? For example the statement below will limit alerts to 7AM through 9 PM but how would I exclude Saturday and Sunday from this same alert? PAGE=%.*/page_name SERVICE=conn COLOR=red TIME=*:0700:2100 mail user1 at domain.net DURATION>50 REPEAT=8h RECOVERED

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configuring xymon-4.2.3 using rpm
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

hi, i have rhel 5.2 64 bit server machine and i want to install xymon in /opt/xymon directory.i hv rpms like xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm,xymon-client-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm,xymon-debuginfo-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm.But after installing installation spreads to /var/xymon and /var/lib64 etc.. i want it to go to /opt/xymon for everything...also i want to know how to configure it....can anybody help me... Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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cgilib-0.5 error for configuring xymon
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

hi, i hv rhel 5.2 64 bit machione.when i do make install for cgilib-0.5,i get fallowing - make install cc -I. -Wall -O2 -g -c -o cgitest.o cgitest.c cgitest.c: In function ‘main’: cgitest.c:108: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcmp’ cgitest.c:116: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘Library’ cgitest.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strlen’ cgitest.c:129: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’ make: *** [cgitest.o] Error 1 -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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big brother replacement
by joe＠tmsusa.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello list, It's that time of year again - we're looking for alternatives to our aging bb infrastructure - although it's been helped by the bbgen extensions, it is showing it's age, and is getting harder to support as time goes by. Of all the potential replacements we've looked at, I don't really like any of them - the commercial bb stuff is uninspiring, and their linux support is lacking. The other solutions tend to be heavyweight j2ee and database apps, or oddities like nagios. What I'd really love to find is something like an up-to-date version of big brother+bbgen, something like hobbit. Unfortunately, last I checked, hobbit still lacked a crucial capability that we depend on, the built-in bb failover mechanism. We have 2 data centers, several hundred miles apart, with bb servers in several lans at both sites. Each bb server has a twin at the other location, and they both monitor the servers in both data centers, but only one of the bb servers does reporting, as determined by the failover state. The bb failover has worked marvelously, and has kept bb firmly in place so far, despite the other advantages of hobbit. So, the $64 question: Is there anything in hobbit, or on the horizon, which will allow hobbit to serve as a drop-in replacement for bb, including the failover capability? Thanks for your words of wisdom. Joe

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Which client-version for HPUX?
by Harald.Husemann＠materna.de 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, I have to install a Hobbit client on a HPUX-System. A while ago, someone posted a link to a download area for pre-compiled clients (http://www.razorsedge.org/~mike/software/hobbit/hpux/) so, I can get the client. But, the question is, which one should I use? 11.00 or 11.11? Uname-string of the system is: HP-UX <host> B.11.23 U ia64 3893899274 unlimited-user license And, how do I install those "depots"? Can someone give a short description, or tell me where I can find it? I'm not really familiar with HP-UX, my world is SUN Solaris and Linux, :-). Thanks, hh -- Harald Husemann Netzwerk- und Systemadministrator Operation Management Center (OMC) MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Westfalendamm 98 44141 Dortmund Geschäftsführer: Dr. Winfried Materna, Helmut an de Meulen, Ralph Hartwig Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 5839 Tel: +49 231 9505 222 Fax: +49 231 9505 100 www.annyway.com <http://www.annyway.com/> www.materna.com <http://www.materna.com/>

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Combo tests / feature request
by Jelle.Smet＠teleatlas.com 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi list, I'm using combo tests to test cluster logic. In one of the cases we're using a combo test for 2 IP addresses/cluster nodes. If an engineer plans work on one of the 2 cluster nodes (s)he disables all tests related to that cluster node, resulting in a blue status for them. But this situation turns the combo test RED, which is normal according to the documentation: "A simple test - e.g. "Web1.http" - results in the value "1" if the "http" test for server "Web1" is green, yellow or clear. It yields the value "0" if it is red, purple or blue." In our case disabling the combo test would also be required too to prevent alerts being generated for the combo test. My request is that it would be nice to have the ability to define which colours have a 1 value and which have a 0 value, which would make combo rules even more flexible. It might be that this behaviour is already available, but then I have overlooked this. What are your thoughts? Jelle Smet.

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how to ignore following rules for filesystem
by balasubramaniann.1＠tcs.com 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Dear all Please help to igonore following warnings what is the syntax and where i have to update this below are the output i dont want following warning because below mentioned filesystem will be always 98-100% /archive/ftp_sbx_02_2008 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_02_2007 (98% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2008 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2007 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2009 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2008 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2008 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /archive/ftp_sbx_01_2006-2005 (93% used) has reached the WARNING level (90%) /fxx/x/rx/databkup (98% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) /ftparea/sbx/B24 (100% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Balasubramanian.N No:16 College Road Nungambakkam Chennai-600006 Tamil Nadu India Cell:- 9962592232 Mailto: balasubramaniann.1 at tcs.com Website: http://www.tcs.com ____________________________________________ Experience certainty. IT Services Business Solutions Outsourcing ____________________________________________ =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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procs monitor size fluctuations
by gus.ferrer＠mail.cuny.edu 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, I started seeing weird behavior with one of my Hobbit clients 2 days ago and it's got me stumped. What's happening is that my 'procs' monitor is changing from red to green every polling cycle. When it is red, the monitored process list shows about half my monitored processes are down. However, doing a 'ps' on the client itself shows that these processes are actually running. I noticed that during the red cycles, the active process list is consistently about 100 lines shorter than when the procs monitor is green, so the Hobbit server is marking the processes down since they aren't being reported by the client. It doesn't look like the client messages are being being truncated by the server(no messages regarding truncation in the hobbitd logs anyway), but I raised the MAXMSG_STATUS and MAXMSG_CLIENT on the server, with no obvious effect. I also don't see any network issues between to the client and the server, and no extreme loads on either. I'm stuck.... BTW - I'm running the 4.2.0 software. The client is Solaris 10, the server is SuSE Enterprise 9.4. This is a small snippet, taken from my hobbit server, First, from the histlogs directory. You can see the size of the file is bouncing back and forth between 27186k and 16714k: -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 27186 Apr 9 16:35 Thu_Apr_9_16:35:13_2009 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 16714 Apr 9 16:39 Thu_Apr_9_16:39:10_2009 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 28108 Apr 9 16:40 Thu_Apr_9_16:40:11_2009 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 16714 Apr 9 16:44 Thu_Apr_9_16:44:14_2009 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 27186 Apr 9 16:45 Thu_Apr_9_16:45:09_2009 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit users 16714 Apr 9 16:49 Thu_Apr_9_16:49:17_2009 And the corresponding bit from the hist directory shows the flapping between red and green: Thu Apr 9 16:35:13 2009 green 1239309313 237 Thu Apr 9 16:39:10 2009 red 1239309550 61 Thu Apr 9 16:40:11 2009 green 1239309611 243 Thu Apr 9 16:44:14 2009 red 1239309854 55 Thu Apr 9 16:45:09 2009 green 1239309909 248 Thu Apr 9 16:49:17 2009 red 1239310157 55 This is a very small example of what's happening, but it's been happening with the same regularity for the 2 days now. Does anyone have a clue what might be happening? Thanks, Gus

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strange behaviour
by doctor＠makelofine.org 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, I use some externals scripts on several xymon clients (4.2.3), reporting a to xymon server (4.2.3) on linux. I configured my xymon server to get graphs using NCV/SPLITNCV on some of the external scripts. Almost all is perfect. Graphs are done, values are correct... But, in trends page, i've some links under some of my own graphs. Some tests have 2 or 3 links, other have 1, and some none... The links are pointing to the same URL than the graphs theirselfs, but one parameter is different. For the links included in graphs, "first" is set to 1, in links without graph, first is 4 or 7 You can see 2 screenshots here : https://www.makelofine.org/xymon-plugins/xymon_trends.png https://www.makelofine.org/xymon-plugins/xymon_trends2.png Tks for any suggestion on how to remove those links

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