Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Matthew Harris DC.Ops
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Tell it to use IP only, I believe there is an option to do that, man hosts.cfg.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of MatthewHarris at air-watch.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:19 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Services false positive
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
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The option is testip, I'm pretty sure. Why this should be necessary, I don't know.
From: taylor lewick [mailto:tlewick at apsaranetworks.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:35 AM To: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>; xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
Tell it to use IP only, I believe there is an option to do that, man hosts.cfg…
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of MatthewHarris at air-watch.com Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:19 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Services false positive
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Matthew Harris DC.Ops
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Thanks guys, giving it a shot right now, I wish I was in charge of the naming convention but that is not a luxury I have
From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:46 AM To: 'tlewick at apsaranetworks.com'; Matthew Harris; 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
The option is testip, I'm pretty sure. Why this should be necessary, I don't know.
From: taylor lewick [mailto:tlewick at apsaranetworks.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:35 AM To: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
Tell it to use IP only, I believe there is an option to do that, man hosts.cfg…
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:19 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] Services false positive
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com < MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> wrote:
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?*
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Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
-- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
It doesn't look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.
From: sholmes42 at gmail.com [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM To: Matthew Harris Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>> wrote: Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
-- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
That will only work for server-side tests (that originate from the Xymon net portion). My guess is you can still solve this problem with a combination of directives however -- look at the CLIENT directive. Presuming you can set the client's name in BBWIN to something specific, you can then use that directive to make the Xymon display associate that alternate name to it. Seems like a pain in the neck though. Might be worth it to look into the alternate Windows clients?
From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:58 AM To: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
It doesn’t look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.
From: sholmes42 at gmail.com [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM To: Matthew Harris Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>> wrote: Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
-- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
Ok, I got it, I switched the servers from central to local and that did the trick, thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated
From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:01 AM To: Matthew Harris; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
That will only work for server-side tests (that originate from the Xymon net portion). My guess is you can still solve this problem with a combination of directives however -- look at the CLIENT directive. Presuming you can set the client's name in BBWIN to something specific, you can then use that directive to make the Xymon display associate that alternate name to it. Seems like a pain in the neck though. Might be worth it to look into the alternate Windows clients?
From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:58 AM To: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com<mailto:sholmes42 at mac.com>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
It doesn’t look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.
From: sholmes42 at gmail.com<mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com> [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM To: Matthew Harris Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>> wrote: Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
-- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
If I'm not mistaken, there are notes in the client software that say that that mode is sort of beta/buggy at this point.
From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:08 AM To: Novosielski, Ryan; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' <sholmes42 at mac.com> Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com' <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Services false positive
Ok, I got it, I switched the servers from central to local and that did the trick, thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated
From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:01 AM To: Matthew Harris; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
That will only work for server-side tests (that originate from the Xymon net portion). My guess is you can still solve this problem with a combination of directives however -- look at the CLIENT directive. Presuming you can set the client's name in BBWIN to something specific, you can then use that directive to make the Xymon display associate that alternate name to it. Seems like a pain in the neck though. Might be worth it to look into the alternate Windows clients?
From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:58 AM To: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com<mailto:sholmes42 at mac.com>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
It doesn’t look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.
From: sholmes42 at gmail.com<mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com> [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve Holmes Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM To: Matthew Harris Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>> wrote: Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
-- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
It's possible to set the host name in bbwin.cfg. You might want to check the bbwin.cfg files on each machine and make sure you don't find the same name in each. If you set host name there, and then copy that install to another machine ....
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, there are notes in the client software that say that that mode is sort of beta/buggy at this point.
*From*: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com] *Sent*: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:08 AM *To*: Novosielski, Ryan; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' <sholmes42 at mac.com> *Cc*: 'xymon at xymon.com' <xymon at xymon.com> *Subject*: RE: [Xymon] Services false positive
Ok, I got it, I switched the servers from central to local and that did the trick, thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated****
*From:* Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:01 AM *To:* Matthew Harris; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' *Cc:* 'xymon at xymon.com' *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Services false positive****
That will only work for server-side tests (that originate from the Xymon net portion). My guess is you can still solve this problem with a combination of directives however -- look at the CLIENT directive. Presuming you can set the client's name in BBWIN to something specific, you can then use that directive to make the Xymon display associate that alternate name to it. Seems like a pain in the neck though. Might be worth it to look into the alternate Windows clients?
*From*: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>]
*Sent*: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:58 AM *To*: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> *Cc*: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> *Subject*: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive
It doesn’t look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.****
*From:* sholmes42 at gmail.com [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com<sholmes42 at gmail.com>] *On Behalf Of *Steve Holmes *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM *To:* Matthew Harris *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Services false positive****
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com < MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> wrote:****
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services. For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for XXXXXXXXXXX48. Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?*
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon****
Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.
Steve
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958)
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass, Former slave, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895) ****
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