We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
On Fri, August 12, 2011 09:45, kconnell at ryerson.ca wrote:
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
ntop can be very useful.
On Friday, 12 August 2011 15:45:14 kconnell at ryerson.ca wrote:
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
We are using devmon (http://sourceforge.net/projects/devmon/) and devmon- weathermap (http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/xymon/) instead of the above.
devmon-weathermap does not have a map editor, but uses interface names (instead of IDs), so editing map configuration files is relatively easy. I had hoped to improve it further (e.g. leverage cdp information from devmon to auto-create the links), but haven't had time to get around to it.
Regards, Buchan
On 8/12/11 8:45 AM, "kconnell at ryerson.ca" <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
I use mrtg with bbmrtg.pl as the primary way to alert about polling problems.
- Weathermap
I have a highly-hacked copy of bbmap. I keep a database of eigrp state changes, and connect the lines based on whether syslog last reported a link up or down. I've wanted to try out weathermap, but I've just never gotten around to it.
-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
We are extremely happy monitoring 109 network devices (and growing)in on average 24 secs via devmon. And Buchan is great supporting the product!
....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:45 AM To: Xymon Email List Subject: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Don't get me wrong, I too love xymon and heavily use devmon (which I forgot to mention), but I was looking for something to track MAC and ARP tables with some good historical info and thought this list might be a good place to start.
Cheers
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
-----Original Message----- From: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:24 To: <kconnell at ryerson.ca>; Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We are extremely happy monitoring 109 network devices (and growing)in on average 24 secs via devmon. And Buchan is great supporting the product!
....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:45 AM To: Xymon Email List Subject: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Hi, We want to monitor hp p2000 g3 msas and ibrix (hp x9000) file serving and brocade san switches using devmon. How we can do that?
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I too love xymon and heavily use devmon (which I forgot to mention), but I was looking for something to track MAC and ARP tables with some good historical info and thought this list might be a good place to start.
Cheers
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
-----Original Message----- From: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:24 To: <kconnell at ryerson.ca>; Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We are extremely happy monitoring 109 network devices (and growing)in on average 24 secs via devmon. And Buchan is great supporting the product!
....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
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-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:45 AM To: Xymon Email List Subject: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
There's a list for devmon...check here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/devmon-support
But basically....do an snmpwalk on the host and grab something specific from the sys description for that device. Copy and existing template directory to a new one and use that as a template to start with.
Now take the sysdescr info and place it in the specs file and then edit/add for specifics for the host/device in the oid files for each test/poll you need.
Then do the "readbbhosts -vvv"...make sure devmon is running, that's it.
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
-----Original Message----- From: akshar bhosale <akshar.bhosale at gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:51:53 To: <kconnell at ryerson.ca> Cc: Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
Hi, We want to monitor hp p2000 g3 msas and ibrix (hp x9000) file serving and brocade san switches using devmon. How we can do that?
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I too love xymon and heavily use devmon (which I forgot to mention), but I was looking for something to track MAC and ARP tables with some good historical info and thought this list might be a good place to start.
Cheers
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
-----Original Message----- From: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:24 To: <kconnell at ryerson.ca>; Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We are extremely happy monitoring 109 network devices (and growing)in on average 24 secs via devmon. And Buchan is great supporting the product!
....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
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-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:45 AM To: Xymon Email List Subject: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Greetings!
I used to be fairly active on this list, but I'm still using Hobbit 4.2.0. As my father always told me, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!". I still follow that policy even in my ripe old age of 50+. I first installed "Big Brother" in 2002 and later upgraded to Hobbit after Quest Software bought them out.
However, I have hit a snag that I've been trying to figure out for weeks. I have a custom script that monitors an application known variously as "datagate, egate or jcaps". I have been using this script at my "home base" hospital for years, and I am attempting to set it up on a corporate server that is a lot busier than my base server.
My base server has only one "schema" as we refer to the logical grouping of components, but the corporate server I'm trying to set up has fourteen. I'm pretty sure that my Unix shell script is operating properly. I have checked it nine ways from Sunday! But two or three of the "schemas" consistently go purple.
I'm at my wits' end about this! Is there anyway to check to make sure that the data is received in the Hobbit server? And if it IS being received, are there error logs that would indicate why it didn't post?
I've been all over the place on this one. I'm a Unix admin, but this one is eating my lunch.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice!
Jim Smith SVHS Little Rock
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On 14-08-2011 21:19, Smith, Jim wrote:
Is there anyway to check to make sure that the data is received in the Hobbit server? And if it IS being received, are there error logs that would indicate why it didn't post?
First thing to check is the logfile on the client. Any scripts that Xymon runs will have their output logged somewhere - if you don't specify a logfile, it ends up in the logfile for xymonlaunch itself.
Not sure what the old BB clients did ...
If you have errors there about not being able to send data to the Xymon server, well - there's your problem.
On the Xymon server, you cannot "tap into" the raw flow of messages that the server receives. Well, you *could* run a network sniffer like tcpdump or wireshark ... but short of that, the best you can do is to run "xymoncmd xymond_channel --channel=status cat" which will dump all of the status-messages that flow into Xymon. You may want to replace the "cat" command at the end with "egrep '^\@\@status'" which will just dump the summary line of of status, including hostname, statuscolumn name, color etc.
Of course you should also check the Xymon-server "xymond" status to see if there are any errors, and the "Ghost clients" report to see if perhaps the data arrives with an unknown hostname.
Regards, Henrik
On 14-08-2011 21:19, Smith, Jim wrote:
I used to be fairly active on this list, but I'm still using Hobbit 4.2.0. As my father always told me, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!".
Forgot to comment on this in my first mail:
The consequence of your Dad's comment would be, that when it *IS* broken, then you should fix it.
4.2.0 has some rather unpleasant bugs, including some that would lose messages sent between xymond (or rather, hobbitd) and the various worker modules. I don't think this is why you see the purple statuses since that usually does not involve any communications outside xymond, but 4.2.0 is 5 years old (almost to the date - it was released on Aug. 10, 2006) and I really think You should consider upgrading it to a newer version.
Regards, Henrik
On 8/13/11 7:26 AM, "kconnell at ryerson.ca" <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I too love xymon and heavily use devmon (which I forgot to mention), but I was looking for something to track MAC and ARP tables with some good historical info and thought this list might be a good place to start.
I have a hacked up version of Tobi's cammer.pl that I used for that. Supporting SNMP version 3 was a royal pain because Cisco broke the bridge-mib horribly in snmp version 3, so most of my hacking is making the v3 stuff work, plus stashing the results in a database.
I haven't tried devmon, precisely because it doesn't support snmpv3 (and mrtg does).
-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
Cheers
-----Original Message----- From: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:28:24 To: <kconnell at ryerson.ca>; Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We are extremely happy monitoring 109 network devices (and growing)in on average 24 secs via devmon. And Buchan is great supporting the product!
....Bruce-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of kconnell at ryerson.ca Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:45 AM To: Xymon Email List Subject: [Xymon] Xymon + ?
We've been using Xymon for a few years and love it. Its our main open source tool for monitoring, but I was wondering what others are using in addition to Xymon for monitoring/alerting network equipment ?
We also use:
- Cacti
- Mrtg
- Weathermap
participants (8)
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akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com
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bewhite＠fellowes.com
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bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net
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Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net
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JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com
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kconnell＠ryerson.ca