Yep – I believe I understand your requirement now Christian. It makes sense to me too.

Down side is that I'm very new to Xymon - (been using it about two weeks) so I don't know how to do this kind of stuff yet. :(

If it's possible, I think we're on the right list as this group is very helpful so far with my dumb questions :)

Sorry I can't be of more help right now. Enjoy your weekend though!

Don K

From: Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:44:11 +0000 To: Don Kuhlman <don.kuhlman at schawk.com<mailto:don.kuhlman at schawk.com>>, "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Antw.: [Xymon] Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc)

Don, using a normal Windows machine I want to view the xymon monitoring pages. If a page contains for example Linux servers, I want to have a PuTTY column. Clicking on that should open PuTTY on my local Windows pc and connect to the selected Linux server on the xymon page. The same with telnet for Cisco devices and mstsc for Windows machines. That enables me to connect to nearly all monitored machines from one point just by clicking webpages.

Hope you got me?

More details on Monday...

Regards Christian

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----- Reply message ----- Von: "Don Kuhlman" <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com<mailto:Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com>> Datum: Fr., Mär. 9, 2012 21:19 Betreff: [Xymon] Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc) An: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>

Just to clarify Christian. Are you saying you want to have the column on your main Xymon webpage for "Putty", then if the target (viewed) machine has this column, you click on it and want to open a session to that host to use Putty on the viewed machine from the Xymon server?

Same steps for Telent, and RDP ?

If so, that sounds interesting and I'd love to hear how that is done too.

Or, I believe if you are just trying to verify that a target (viewed) machine is listening for SSH, RDP, or the telnet protocol, you would edit the protocols.cfg file and add the test name with your parameters on the Xymon server and then configure your hosts.cfg for the target machine.

Since you mentioned Putty, it sounds like you want to use the Xymon web pages to actually make connections to your viewed machines from the Xymon server?

Don K

From: Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net<mailto:christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:16:58 +0000 To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: [Xymon] Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc)

Hi there,

i have implemented a fresh install of Xymon 4.3.7 for our environment. This includes at this time nearly 300 devices in total.

We had used a commercial tool before, and we are in the need to go away from that commercial tool to Xymon. Knowing some of the features we had in the commercial tool, i'm missing these features in Xymon.

For each device i'ld like to have a column that provides me with a "PuTTY", "TELNET" or "MSTSC" feature. For example, if it is a Linux server, i'ld like to have a "PUTTY" icon. For a windows machine, i want a "MSTSC" icon. "TELNET" i want to have for several CISCO devices.

Currently i have created a ssh-protocol-handler in the local registry of the "viewing" machine. Then i have created HOSTNAME.html files in the server/www/notes directory which enables me to provide links, for example HREF="ssh:HOSTNAME". This enables me to login to the specified host. In general this is what i want.

But: i think it's more efficient to have an extra column on the overview site which provides me with the specified protocol link. Would that be possible to implement? For example with an extra tag in the hosts.cfg file?

Hope i have described detailed enough what i want...

Best regards

Christian

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On Fri, March 9, 2012 17:04, Jon Dustin wrote:

How about if you use the built-in "info" button in Xymon? Look at the HOSTS.CFG manpages, specifically:

DESCR:Hosttype:Description Define some informational text about the host. The "Hosttype" is a text describing the type of this device - "router", "switch", "hub", "server" etc. The "Description" is an informational text that will be shown on the "Info" column page; this can e.g. be used to store information about the physical location of the device, contact persons etc. If the text contain whitespace, you must enclose it in double-quotes, e.g. DESCR:"switch:4th floor Marketing switch"

You may add html code to the DESCR field, and your browser will make it "clickable".

I think you're wanting something like the following:

(hosts.cfg) 192.168.1.24 servername.co.com # DESCR:"Web Server:description <a href=ssh:192.168.1.24>ssh</a>"

The above entry inside hosts.cfg would add a link of ssh:192.168.1.24 to the "info" button associated with that host in Xymon.

I hope this is clear; good luck!

Very clear, and very cool. I've been using this stuff since the Big Brother days and didn't know about that!

Jon,

this didn't work for me. It seems to me that the section <a href=ssh:192.168.1.24>ssh</a> would not be interpreted as html.

Regards Christian

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On 3/9/2012 at 3:44 PM, in message <0020F6A9-8970-412C-8584-952204D4506F at rhein-zeitung.net>, Becker Christian <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net> wrote: Don, using a normal Windows machine I want to view the xymon monitoring pages. If a page contains for example Linux servers, I want to have a PuTTY column. Clicking on that should open PuTTY on my local Windows pc and connect to the selected Linux server on the xymon page. The same with telnet for Cisco devices and mstsc for Windows machines. That enables me to connect to nearly all monitored machines from one point just by clicking webpages.

How about if you use the built-in "info" button in Xymon? Look at the HOSTS.CFG manpages, specifically:

DESCR:Hosttype:Description Define some informational text about the host. The "Hosttype" is a text describing the type of this device - "router", "switch", "hub", "server" etc. The "Description" is an informational text that will be shown on the "Info" column page; this can e.g. be used to store information about the physical location of the device, contact persons etc. If the text contain whitespace, you must enclose it in double-quotes, e.g. DESCR:"switch:4th floor Marketing switch"

You may add html code to the DESCR field, and your browser will make it "clickable".

I think you're wanting something like the following:

(hosts.cfg) 192.168.1.24 servername.co.com # DESCR:"Web Server:description <a href=ssh:192.168.1.24>ssh</a>"

The above entry inside hosts.cfg would add a link of ssh:192.168.1.24 to the "info" button associated with that host in Xymon.

I hope this is clear; good luck!

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Ok. Since we are sort of talking about the protocol.cfg file and other related things, ;), I wanted to try and verify my understanding of it and also pose another question about how the tests are working.

Our protocols.cfg file contains this for ssh|ssh1|ssh2

[ssh|ssh1|ssh2] send "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.1\r\n" expect "SSH" options banner port 22

I have a host running the ssh test configured as below in hosts.cfg: 1.2.3.4 sshostbeingtested.our.domain.com #fqdn.hostbeingtested.our.domain.com noconn ssh

This is an external server that is not ours and not on our internal network. We are doing a sftp connection to it from applications and want to make sure sftp is working to that host. The connection is using port 22 so that's why I picked the ssh test.

I can make a connection to that host over port 22 from a computer on our network. It returns a string as below when I make a connection over port 22:

SSH-2.0-mod_sftp/0.9.7 ☻| ¶╧▐÷⌐└⌡ 7ï╝ôm╫ë┬÷ïdiffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-gro up-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,rsa1024- sha1ssh-rsa,ssh-dssÅaes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr,aes256-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes12 8-cbc,blowfish-ctr,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour256,arcfour128,3des-ctr,3des- cbcÅaes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr,aes256-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes128-cbc,blowfish-c tr,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour256,arcfour128,3des-ctr,3des-cbc:hmac-sha1,hm ac-sha1-96,hmac-md5,hmac-md5-96,hmac-ripemd160:hmac-sha1,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5,h mac-md5-96,hmac-ripemd160♦none♦noneV8┬·╗┐$█╥SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.1

1. So, is the ssh|ssh1|ssh2 test in protocols.cfg supposed to make the connection to the target host via port 22, then send it that string in red above - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.1\r\n" ?

2. If so, why would it send this, as we don't want to tell that to the host do we?

3. Then is it expecting the host to reply with only "SSH" or is it looking for anything matching that in the reply? As you can see, the target host is sending a lot more back when you make a port 22 connection to it.

4. Is the options banner line supposed to say it's okay to send us all that other stuff back or not?

Thanks all.

If this has been answered, please send me the link as my google foo isn't fooing well again today while searching for this kind of clarification.

Don K

Thanks very much for clarifying Jeremy!

On 3/12/12 11:33 PM, "Jeremy Laidman" <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Don Kuhlman

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1. So, is the ssh|ssh1|ssh2 test in protocols.cfg supposed to make the connection to the target host via port 22, then send it that string in red above - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.1\r\n" ?

Yes.

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2. If so, why would it send this, as we don't want to tell that to the host do we?

This is how an ssh/sftp client talks to an ssh server. It connects, waits for the SSH-* banner, then sends its own SSH-* banner.

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3. Then is it expecting the host to reply with only "SSH" or is it looking for anything matching that in the reply?

It looks for a banner that starts with "SSH". It looks only in the banner for this string.

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4. Is the options banner line supposed to say it's okay to send us all that other stuff back or not?

The "banner" line causes Xymon to log what it receives from the server, but before sending the "send" string. All of the other data should not be logged.

Cheers Jeremy