Question concerning port monitoring
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can't just disable the "ports" check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
I'd be interested in any answers you receive! I've got almost the same problem - servers that are switched between one of several porst for http, and was thinking I'd need to drop the tests into separate external tests (which would lose the every-30-second retest for http) but am interested to know if there's a better way.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
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By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:
Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
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By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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I think you're right on that one. Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting. That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system. 733MHz! Wow, that's some high tech kit. Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote: Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
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By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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I normally handle this sort of thing through virtualhosts. If you're not talking web, though, and don't need to bother with that then maybe it's a different story.
On 04/28/2011 06:18 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I think you're right on that one. Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting. That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system. 733MHz! Wow, that's some high tech kit. Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote: Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I cant just disable the ports check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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I'd prefer to have dev, test and prod on different IP's but that might not be possible|allowed in Tom's env.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:25 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
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I normally handle this sort of thing through virtualhosts. If you're not talking web, though, and don't need to bother with that then maybe it's a different story.
On 04/28/2011 06:18 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I think you're right on that one. Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting. That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system. 733MHz! Wow, that's some high tech kit. Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote: Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I cant just disable the ports check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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Well yes, that's the plan (to move the environments to separate servers). But in the meantime.. I would set up virtualhosts.. but while that works fine for server side checks (i.e. websites), I don't think it would work for port status because that information comes from the client and can only match one CLIENT entry server side.
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I'd prefer to have dev, test and prod on different IP's but that might not be possible|allowed in Tom's env.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:25 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
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I normally handle this sort of thing through virtualhosts. If you're not talking web, though, and don't need to bother with that then maybe it's a different story.
On 04/28/2011 06:18 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I think you're right on that one. Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting. That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system. 733MHz! Wow, that's some high tech kit. Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote: Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I cant just disable the ports check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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You could possibly run multiple clients. I would assume that might work because the client is the one that sends back its name, and that name does not have to be the host name. I don't think the client listens, right (thinking port conflicts).
On 04/29/2011 06:37 PM, Tom Moore wrote:
Well yes, that's the plan (to move the environments to separate servers). But in the meantime.. I would set up virtualhosts.. but while that works fine for server side checks (i.e. websites), I don't think it would work for port status because that information comes from the client and can only match one CLIENT entry server side.
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I'd prefer to have dev, test and prod on different IP's but that might not be possible|allowed in Tom's env.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:25 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
I normally handle this sort of thing through virtualhosts. If you're not talking web, though, and don't need to bother with that then maybe it's a different story.
On 04/28/2011 06:18 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I think you're right on that one. Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting. That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system. 733MHz! Wow, that's some high tech kit. Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each. I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems". The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380. I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds... :)
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote: Ah -- I see. Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red..... Okay that's a different issue. Will have to think about that for a bit.
Thanks,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring
By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out from other instances of same on the same machine.
On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
I might be missing your question. If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon). These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts. Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
For example:
HOST=fred .... PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup ....
HOST=jane ... PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat ...
Tim
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
Greetings,
We have a server that is running 3 different processes. In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they are listening on the appropriate port.
The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I cant just disable the ports check, because that will disable the monitors for the PROD and TEST ports.
How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
Thanks,
Tom
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