I have been attempting to use the “standard” tcp (conn) tests and pre-defined graphs, rather than building something “custom”.

In /etc/xymon/xymonserver.cfg I added:

TEST2RRD=” … ,voip=tcp” GRAPHS=” … ,voip”

I did not configure it to use NCV as I understood, based on my reading online, that was only necessary with output formatted as colon-separated “columnar” data. Since this test runs a simple fping the output looks like this:

10.10.16.251 is alive (25.8 ms)

I rewrote the script yesterday as a shell script (no perl). Here’s the entire thing:

#!/bin/sh

COLUMN=voip for RMT in cat /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg | egrep "vya|tal" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d" " -f1,2 --output-delimiter=, do ADDR=echo $RMT | awk -F, '{print $1}' SITE=echo $RMT | awk -F, '{print $2}' RSLT=ok STAT=green VOIP=${ADDR/192.168/10.10} VOIP=${VOIP/.5./.6.} SRVR=${SITE//./,} DATA=/usr/sbin/fping -Ae $VOIP

if [[ $DATA == *"unreachable"* ]] then RSLT="NOT ok" STAT=red fi MESG="Service $COLUMN on $SITE is $RSLT"

Results to Xymon

#echo $ADDR $SRVR $DATA $STAT $MESG $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $SRVR.$COLUMN $STAT date +"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" $COLUMN $RSLT

${MESG}

${DATA} " done

exit 0

Unfortunately no, the RRD log files are not being created either – so it looks like I’ve missed some critical steps there too.

Thanks, Scott