if you make use of the class in your hosts.cfg you could check that ssh is running and check the port as well if all your hosts use the standard port.

All my AIX and Linux servers have CLASS:aix or CLASS:linux on their hosts.cfg entries and my analysis.cfg has the following,

CLASS=linux PROC /usr/sbin/sshd 1

CLASS=aix PROC sshd 1

I could also include the port check if it wasn't for the fact that 1 server uses a non standard port so I have the port checks in the individual files in analysis.d directory.

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-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk Sent: 19 December 2011 10:17 To: martin.flemming at desy.de Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:08 +0100 (CET), martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:

.. maybe stupid question,

There are no stupid questions :-)

but is it possible to test ssh for all hosts as default ?

No - sorry.

Regards, Henrik

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Just put "ssh" on your servers in your hosts.cfg file. Then the Xymon server will do a remote ssh connection test.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin Flemming Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:20 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

Thanks all for response

Indeed i need an real ssh-network test as indicator for heavily paging working-nodes ..

In real the machines are responding with ping but fromt to time ssh is not working anymore .. :-(

So, i've had to still add the ssh-tag behind each host ...

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Neil Simmonds wrote:

if you make use of the class in your hosts.cfg you could check that ssh is running and check the port as well if all your hosts use the standard port.

All my AIX and Linux servers have CLASS:aix or CLASS:linux on their hosts.cfg entries and my analysis.cfg has the following,

CLASS=linux PROC /usr/sbin/sshd 1

CLASS=aix PROC sshd 1

I could also include the port check if it wasn't for the fact that 1 server uses a non standard port so I have the port checks in the individual files in analysis.d directory.

Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk Sent: 19 December 2011 10:17 To: martin.flemming at desy.de Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:08 +0100 (CET), martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:

...

.. maybe stupid question,

There are no stupid questions :-)

...

but is it possible to test ssh for all hosts as default ?

No - sorry.

Regards, Henrik

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Hmm, i thought that network-test e.g ssh didn't work with .default.

but i will tested of course ..

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Tom Moore wrote:

Oh sorry.. and if you want it to be a default across all machines, you can put this at the top of your hosts.cfg file

0.0.0.0 .default. # ssh

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Moore Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:41 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

Just put "ssh" on your servers in your hosts.cfg file. Then the Xymon server will do a remote ssh connection test.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin Flemming Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:20 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

Thanks all for response

Indeed i need an real ssh-network test as indicator for heavily paging working-nodes ..

In real the machines are responding with ping but fromt to time ssh is not working anymore .. :-(

So, i've had to still add the ssh-tag behind each host ...

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Neil Simmonds wrote:

...

if you make use of the class in your hosts.cfg you could check that ssh is running and check the port as well if all your hosts use the standard port.

All my AIX and Linux servers have CLASS:aix or CLASS:linux on their hosts.cfg entries and my analysis.cfg has the following,

CLASS=linux PROC /usr/sbin/sshd 1

CLASS=aix PROC sshd 1

I could also include the port check if it wasn't for the fact that 1 server uses a non standard port so I have the port checks in the individual files in analysis.d directory.

Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk Sent: 19 December 2011 10:17 To: martin.flemming at desy.de Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:08 +0100 (CET), martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:

...

.. maybe stupid question,

There are no stupid questions :-)

...

but is it possible to test ssh for all hosts as default ?

No - sorry.

Regards, Henrik

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Ah.. work with something long enough and I think I can ignore reading the man pages again. :)

Unfortunately it sounds like you have some scripting/sed work ahead of you :)

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin Flemming Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:15 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

.. unfortunately, didn't work like expected :-(

http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html

NOTE: The ".default." host entry will only accept the following tags - others are silently ignored: NOCOLUMNS, COMMENT, DESCR, CLASS, dialup, testip, nonongreen, nodisp, noinfo, notrends, TRENDS, NOPROPRED, NOPROPYELLOW, NOPROPPURPLE, NOPROPACK, REPORTTIME, WARNPCT, NET, noclear, nosslcert, ssldays, DOWNTIME, depends, noping, noconn, trace, notrace, HIDEHTTP, browser, pulldata.

-> Specifically, note that network tests, "badTEST" settings, and alternate pageset relations cannot be listed on the ".default." host.

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Martin Flemming wrote:

Hmm, i thought that network-test e.g ssh didn't work with .default.

but i will tested of course ..

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Tom Moore wrote:

...

Oh sorry.. and if you want it to be a default across all machines, you can put this at the top of your hosts.cfg file

0.0.0.0 .default. # ssh

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Moore Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:41 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

Just put "ssh" on your servers in your hosts.cfg file. Then the Xymon server will do a remote ssh connection test.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin Flemming Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:20 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

Thanks all for response

Indeed i need an real ssh-network test as indicator for heavily paging working-nodes ..

In real the machines are responding with ping but fromt to time ssh is not working anymore .. :-(

So, i've had to still add the ssh-tag behind each host ...

thanks & cheers

martin

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Neil Simmonds wrote:

...

if you make use of the class in your hosts.cfg you could check that ssh is running and check the port as well if all your hosts use the standard port.

All my AIX and Linux servers have CLASS:aix or CLASS:linux on their hosts.cfg entries and my analysis.cfg has the following,

CLASS=linux PROC /usr/sbin/sshd 1

CLASS=aix PROC sshd 1

I could also include the port check if it wasn't for the fact that 1 server uses a non standard port so I have the port checks in the individual files in analysis.d directory.

Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk Sent: 19 December 2011 10:17 To: martin.flemming at desy.de Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ssh-test as default

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:08 +0100 (CET), martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:

...

.. maybe stupid question,

There are no stupid questions :-)

...

but is it possible to test ssh for all hosts as default ?

No - sorry.

Regards, Henrik

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