Apache tag not working, not playing nice with http tag.
I've been trying to get apache results and am getting nothing, no results, no errors, as if it the tag wasn't there.
UNLESS, and this is the weird part - *IF* I disable http for a given server I get *stats* under apache on the trends page, but still no apache column on the server page.
Disabling http is not an option, as we've got nonstandard ports getting tested.
With any http test enabled, just get blank "nan" values for apache. And no matter what, we don't get an apache column.
Xymon server is xymon 4.3.2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux; most of the clients are running the latest apache and Solaris 10 u9.
servers have ExtendedStatus On curl on the xymon server returns the expected stats with "curl http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto"
have tested using just a plain "apache" tag in hosts.cfg and apache=http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto
Hi Elizabeth,
Just so as I understand it right, you are trying to monitor an Apache daemon running on a remote server?
Remote monitoring of ports is done from the Xymon server itself, i.e. the connection is initiated from your Xymon server to your webserver. Mine is configured and working like this:
hosts.cfg:10.5.1.2 server.colt.net # ssh ftp http://server.colt.net/
In this manner I get a column labelled 'http' which shows green when the web server is running.
How does your setup differ from this?
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-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Schwartz Sent: 12 July 2011 18:35 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Apache tag not working, not playing nice with http tag.
I've been trying to get apache results and am getting nothing, no results, no errors, as if it the tag wasn't there.
UNLESS, and this is the weird part - *IF* I disable http for a given server I get *stats* under apache on the trends page, but still no apache column on the server page.
Disabling http is not an option, as we've got nonstandard ports getting tested.
With any http test enabled, just get blank "nan" values for apache. And no matter what, we don't get an apache column.
Xymon server is xymon 4.3.2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux; most of the clients are running the latest apache and Solaris 10 u9.
servers have ExtendedStatus On curl on the xymon server returns the expected stats with "curl http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto"
have tested using just a plain "apache" tag in hosts.cfg and apache=http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto
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my understanding is that the apache tag should give server performance stats - it does seem to work this way if I don't have an http tag also. So you need both - the apache tag for stats, the http tag to test specific URL response. (many of our URL tests actually trigger coldfusion tests)
Ah, I see the difference between our configurations. I have not used the apache tag at all, only the HTTP tag to test network performance. Given that you need to set up the Xymon server to access http://your.server.com/server-status?auto I can't why you couldn't use that URL for your HTTP test, which will avoid your ColdFusion tests.
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-----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com] Sent: 17 July 2011 04:06 To: Ward, Martin Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Apache tag not working, not playing nice with http tag.
my understanding is that the apache tag should give server performance stats - it does seem to work this way if I don't have an http tag also. So you need both - the apache tag for stats, the http tag to test specific URL response. (many of our URL tests actually trigger coldfusion tests)
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I'd like to see it work because we want to collect the stats, and apache in xymon is supposed to collect the stats, and all the nice RRD stuff is already written for the apache test ....
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:
Ah, I see the difference between our configurations. I have not used the apache tag at all, only the HTTP tag to test network performance. Given that you need to set up the Xymon server to access http://your.server.com/server-status?auto I can't why you couldn't use that URL for your HTTP test, which will avoid your ColdFusion tests.
I've been trying to get apache results and am getting nothing, no results, no errors, as if it the tag wasn't there.
UNLESS, and this is the weird part - *IF* I disable http for a given server I get *stats* under apache on the trends page, but still no apache column on the server page.
Disabling http is not an option, as we've got nonstandard ports getting tested.
With any http test enabled, just get blank "nan" values for apache. And no matter what, we don't get an apache column.
The data for the Apache stats don't generate an Apache status - it just generates an apache RRD file, you can see it in the "trends" column.
I've tried reproducing your problem here, but I cannot - no matter how I try to configure hosts.cfg, when running the network tests I get both the normal "http" status update, and the "apache" data update.
Could you try running the network tests against that host like this:
xymoncmd xymonnet --noping --debug --no-update HOSTNAME 2>&1 >log.txt
and see if there is a line with "data HOSTNAME.apache" together with the apache statistics in there ?
Regards, Henrik
I think I misunderstood how it was supposed to work. I was trying very very hard to get an apache status dot. So apache statuses show up in trends only?
I confess I can't reproduce the nan values myself, after leaving it alone for a solid week. Is there perhaps a delay before those values start to show up? Maybe I was being too impatient.
thanks Betsy
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
I've been trying to get apache results and am getting nothing, no results, no errors, as if it the tag wasn't there.
UNLESS, and this is the weird part - *IF* I disable http for a given server I get *stats* under apache on the trends page, but still no apache column on the server page.
Disabling http is not an option, as we've got nonstandard ports getting tested.
With any http test enabled, just get blank "nan" values for apache. And no matter what, we don't get an apache column.
The data for the Apache stats don't generate an Apache status - it just generates an apache RRD file, you can see it in the "trends" column.
I've tried reproducing your problem here, but I cannot - no matter how I try to configure hosts.cfg, when running the network tests I get both the normal "http" status update, and the "apache" data update.
Could you try running the network tests against that host like this:
xymoncmd xymonnet --noping --debug --no-update HOSTNAME 2>&1 >log.txt
and see if there is a line with "data HOSTNAME.apache" together with the apache statistics in there ?
Regards, Henrik
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