-----Original Message----- From: Gore, David W Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 16:03 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] bb-ack
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:52 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack
In <4589F14AA3744644BB56B950C422D6A909932E0B at ASHEVS008.mcilink.co m> "Gore, David W" <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> writes:
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik St=C3=B8rner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]=20 Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 22:14 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack =20 In=20 <4589F14AA3744644BB56B950C422D6A9098C7D5F at ASHEVS008.mcilink.co m> "Gore, David W" <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> writes: =20
I am running Red Hat release 4 and the latest snapshot. I am also=20 running Apache 2.0.52. When I try to acknowledge an alert=20 it shows me=20 ALL the services that are alarming not just the alert I was=20 interested=20 in. Any idea what I can do to debug? =20 That would usually mean that the cookie used by the bb-ack=20 CGI to determine what page or host you were looking at is=20 missing. Maybe you have cookies disabled in your browser policy ? =20
The cookies are not disabled. Viewing the cookies in firefox I can see = that the host cookie does NOT contain the hostname. It does contain the = hostname on a working server. =20
So I installed the last test release from xymon.com web page. It also = exhibits the same problem. I would guess that it is a permission = problem since I have to correct numerous files to get the server and = client to work properly.
Quite unlikely, the cookie is exchanged directly between the Xymon server and your browser.
On the webpage where you view the status (just before going to the ack- page), try doing a "View Source" (ctrl-U in Firefox). Near the top you should see two lines like these: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=mypage; path=/"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/"> (either the 'pagepath' or the 'host' cookie should be set, not both). Are these correct ?
No they are not correct. They match what I am seeing in the cookies:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Sat, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=; path=/"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/"> <TITLE>yellow : Xymon - Status @ Mon Jan 05 15:44:42 2009</TITLE>
The EXPIRES date is sort of odd isn't it? Is that set by Xymon, you can see the Xymon Status date. We set our Xymon servers to GMT.
I did try to install 4.2.2 over top our test version but I get the same headers as above.
~David
There shouldn't be any file-permission issues with the final 4.2.2 release.
Regards, Henrik
Disabling hosts is completely non-functional as well as I just realized. When you select one or more hosts, nothing shows up in the Tests column. Perhaps for the same reason bb-ack is not working? Cookies? Or something else?
~David