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conn:red but host is ok also clear for files,http and procs
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

hello, i hv xymon setup in linux i have 2 hosts having ips 13.1.1.4 and 13.1.1.2 ( internal network) which are reachable by ip address from xymon server.In dns its hostname resolves to its old ip address of 192.168.2.106 &2.107 resp.I get bbd:bbd ok : Ping failed, or dialup host/service Service bbd on tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in is OK Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed te Host appears to be down conn :conn NOT ok Service conn on tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 7323 poll periods (2218000 seconds) [image: red] 192.168.2.107 is unreachable cpu ,disk,info,memory,messages,trends :green files : clear :no files found http :Connection refused[image: clear] http://13.1.1.4/ - Connection refused Seconds: 0.00 ports:Ports NOT ok No port checks defined procs: Processes NOT ok[image: clear] No process checks defined i get files,ports and procs as clear for every host including server How and where to configure for each of these tests.can anybody give its detailed explainnation?also can i know the meaning of all types of reports... -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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bbwin central settings
by jhoffman＠invenda.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Is there an option in bbwin central configuration to setup SVCs to autorestart? Here is an example from the local config file for bbwin. <setting name="Automatic Updates" value="started" autoreset="true" alarmcolor="red" /> This configuration will cause the Automatic Updates service to automatically restart if it is not started. >From central config I have SVC Automatic_Updates startup=automatic status=started This causes a red alert if either startup is not automatic or is status is not started. But I don't know how to make it restart. Is there another set of SVC keywords I can use like autoreset=true? I can't find any documentation. Also if I experiment I'm not sure where I will find errors...

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feature request: marking or notify significant events on the trend charts
by tomg＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I have a feature request: Is there any way to add some kind of marker on the trend charts to record a significant event? For example, if my company makes a major code release and our metrics improve greatly, it would be fanastic if we had the ability to add some kind of line or marker to the trend chart that indicates when we did it so we can show before & after type views of the data. Is that even an option that could be worked into Hobbit? Thanks, Tom

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Limited amount of log data
by ken.schweiker＠faa.gov 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, Trying to set up xymon to capture log data. Once I changed the permission on the var/log/message file, I got -some- data. I am taking the defaults with xymon 4.2.3. I might appear that I only get to see the last 30 minutes of log data. Can this be increased? Second, why does it say No entries in /var/log/messages. Thanks. System logs at Thu Mar 5 17:03:20 EST 2009 No entries in /var/log/messages Full log /var/log/messages Mar 5 16:56:00 tcdcpega syslog-ng[1494]: STATS: dropped 0

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bb.html rotation
by Padraig.Lennon＠pioneerinvestments.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, On the Hobbit front page bb.html i currently have set --subpagecolumns=3 set for the BBGENOPTS configuration in hobbitserver.cfg. This works fine in that it generates 3 columns as I want but every time the page is generated it reverts back to a single column and back to 3 columns and so on... How can I force it to stop this rotation so that it shows only the 3 columns? regards, Padraig Lennon Senior Systems Integration Engineer Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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extra-script not executed while sending data from client to RRD
by ezio.ostorero＠gmail.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi all, Before posting I carefully read the all the docs I could find on the matter, FAQs, HOWTOs, and the following strings: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00318.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/10/msg00326.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/09/msg00244.html http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/09/msg00265.html So, I was able to slowly and painfully crawl along and write a couple of "hello world" scripts. My server "ps" looks like this: ezio# ps -ef | grep hobbitd_rrd | grep -v grep | grep -v hobbitd_channel hobbit 7929 7928 0 16:08 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd hobbit 7954 7953 0 16:08 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd --extra-script=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/rrd_mon.sh --extra-tests=iostat --debug Notice the "=" sign is there between --extra-script and the actual script name (see http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/09/msg00357.html) My extra script is so trivial I'm ashamed to post it, but it's good to check if it is going to be executed at all: #!/bin/bash TMPLOG="/tmp/$1.$2.out.$$" date >> $TMPLOG echo "$1, $2, $3" >> $TMPLOG cp $3 >> $TMPLOG 2>&1 exit 0 OK, nothing is created in /tmp, so, I'm assuming hobbit_rrd is NOT executing my extra script. Turning on the "--debug" option did not help much What am I missing? Should I put all the fancy RRD-formatted-colon-separated "echoes" in my extra-script? (I wouldn't say so) Ciao, Ezio

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xymon RPMS for RHEL/Centos 3/4/5
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I got around to adding some migration support to xymon in the Mandriva packages, and it seems to work adequately for a relatively simple setup. So, I have (as usual) rebuilt the packages for RHEL/Centos. For now, they are in a separate repo, e.g.: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/ http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel4/xymon/ http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel3/xymon/ SRPM is here: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/SRPMS/xymon/xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel5.src.rpm Please note that you may see a message about files being save as .rpmsave, you should copy those back before starting xymon after the upgrade. Also note that any extension scripts may not be migrated correctly (it's better to package them as well :-)). If you do upgrade from Hobbit to Xymon with these packages, please let me know of anything else that did not work correctly. If I get sufficient feedback, I will eventually move these packages to the hobbit repo (or, make them have the same content). Regards, Buchan P.S. I am taking a few days of paternity leave starting now ... but I will try and answer mail

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Pages hosted Locally
by Jarrod.Hodder＠pmg.net.au 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hey guys, When you use the 'page' command it puts them all under the title in Pages Hosted Locally. All the pages display over 2 columns, any idea how I can get them to only show in 1 column? Thanks jarrod

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Replicating disabled tests to another server
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I am getting ready to set up a multi-master environment, making what up until now was simply another server feeding client data to the primary server, into a second primary server. Currently the secondary has none of the data on which tests are disabled. I need to know how to merge this information from the primary to the secondary, without corrupting the existing checkpoint data. I tried a test, copying one of the "blue" lines from the primary hobbitd.chk file into the secondary, but it had some weird results. It showed a completely different server and test as disabled on the Enda/dis page, so it looks like the order of the lines in the file may be a requirement? If I simply copy the entire alert.chk and hobbitd.chk files from primary to secondary and restart, will this work or have any adverse consequences on the secondary? The current setup is: Primary <---- Secondary ^ ^ | | | | Prime Secondary Site Site Clients Clients

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disable untill ok bug ?
by stef.coene＠docum.org 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, Yesterday I disabled a ping test 'untill ok'. This night, the ping test failed on the hobbit server (4.2) with status clear: Wed Mar 4 00:05:42 2009 ping ok : System failure of the ping test Service ping on srvs3tsm is OK Hobbit system error System unreachable for 1508 poll periods (455337 seconds) This also cleared the disable setting so 5 minutes later, the status was error and 10 minutes later an alert was triggered. Is it normal that a 'system failure' of the ping test clears the 'disabled untill ok' setting? Stef

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