[Xymon] Xymon Tool

Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) Prachi.Nawale at ge.com
Fri Jul 19 09:31:13 CEST 2013


Hello Xymon Support team,

 

Need your help in getting xymon up2date as per our requirements.

Let me brief you here for the current setup.

 

We have various sites/datacenters across the globe which includes servers (windows / Linux/Solaris physical servers and VMs, VMware ESX hosts) and network devices like switches, routers and firewall.

We need to monitor critical servers/VMs and network devices here.

 

In initial phase we could install, configure xymon older version ie 4.3.10 on a linux node at Hyderabad site.

We have added couple of windows and linux clients as of now.

 

Currently it is monitoring following components:

connection, cpu, disk, memory, messages, netstats (ports), processes, services, uptime, user-logins

 

I also tried to add a network switch device in xymon, however it shows conn is the only parameter to monitor.

Refer below screenshot, inhydswt3a is the network switch that we added.

Figure 2 shows: the trend it captured for switch.

Figure 3 shows the trend metrics report for TCP connections.

 

However, we are looking for more specific usage of xymon as a tool to monitor the virtual machines (windows and linux both) and the connection from other sites to find potentials problems and tracking of latency and throughput  and  provide a visible dashboard of that connection (and available latency/bandwidth if possible).

 

Kindly assist further how to achieve this. Is there any custom graphs/trends can be captured through xymon.

 

Figure1:

 

 

 

 

Figure 2: inhydswt3a is the network switch

 

 

 

 

Figure 3: hydmap01 is windows VM

 

 

Thanks,

Prachi

 

From: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:18 PM
To: 'Henrik Størner'
Cc: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)
Subject: RE: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 

Hi Henrik,

 

I could manage installing xymon older version ie 4.3.10 on a linux node. And it is working now. 

However I am facing following error while monitoring Conn and xymonnet parameters.

 

Below is the error/screenshot.

 

 

 

Conn:

 

 

Xymonnet:

 

 

 

Thanks,

Prachi

 

From: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:50 PM
To: 'Henrik Størner'
Subject: RE: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 

Hi Henrik,

 

I have applied the patch.

 

[root at hydxymon01 xymon-4.3.11]# patch -p0 < /tmp/attachment.diff

patching file xymongen/loaddata.c

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y

[root at hydxymon01 xymon-4.3.11]#

 

Then restarted httpd and xymon services.

Tried to access http://3.185.120.18/xymon Or http://3.185.120.18/xymon/

Webpages, but getting PAGE not found error.

 

I altered the DocumentRoot in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to use following.

 

[root at hydxymon01 logs]# grep DocumentRoot /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

DocumentRoot "/home/xymon/server/www"

[root at hydxymon01 logs]#

 

 

Again restarted xymon and httpd services and launched the URL. Getting following error now.

 

 

 

[root at hydxymon01 logs]# tail -f error_log

[Tue Jul 09 13:45:07 2013] [error] [client 3.185.141.56] (13)Permission denied: access to /xymon denied

[Tue Jul 09 13:46:32 2013] [error] [client 3.185.141.56] (13)Permission denied: access to /xymon/ denied

 

Kindly advise.

 

Thanks,

Prachi

 

From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)
Subject: SV: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 

Hi, you use the 'patch' utility. Go to the xymon-4.3.11 directory and run 'patch -p0 < /tmp/attachment.diff'. Then run make and make install. 

Regards,
Henrik

"Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)" <Prachi.Nawale at ge.com> skrev:

Hi Henrik,

 

Thank you for your response.

 

From the URL you sent, I could find download attachment  : attachment.diff file

 

How shall I add the patch in my xymon installation. I tried to see the contents of the file and it says to unload and load loaddata.c module.

Kindly brief me the procedure to install the patch.

 

[root at hydxymon01 ~]# cat /tmp/attachment.diff

--- xymongen/loaddata.c 2013-04-23 10:40:34.012594724 +0200

+++ ../4.3.11/xymongen/loaddata.c       2013-04-20 17:31:30.052595173 +0200

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

/*                                                                            */

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

 

-static char rcsid[] = "$Id: loaddata.c 7196 2013-04-23 08:40:25Z storner $";

+static char rcsid[] = "$Id: loaddata.c 7181 2013-04-20 15:31:22Z storner $";

 

#include <limits.h>

#include <stdio.h>

@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@

                        char *bcmd;

 

                        bcmd = (char *)malloc(1024 + (filter ? strlen(filter) : 0));

-                       sprintf(bcmd, "xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist %s", (filter ? filter: ""));

+                       sprintf(bcmd, "xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist %s", filter);

                        xymondresult = sendmessage(bcmd, NULL, XYMON_TIMEOUT, sres);

                        board = getsendreturnstr(sres, 1);

                        xfree(bcmd);

[root at hydxymon01 ~]#

 

 

Thanks,

Prachi

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon software sales [mailto:sales at xymon.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:40 AM
To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)
Subject: Re: FW: Hej Henrik

 

Hi,

 

4.3.11 has a known bug that may cause it to not generate the standard webpages. A fix was posted to the mailing list shortly after the release, you can find it here:

 

http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-April/037357.html <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-April/037357.html> 

 

If that doesn't solve the problem, please check your apache configuration - you need to add the Xymon apache config to the webserver.

 

 

Regards,

Henrik

 

 

On 08-07-2013 10:25, Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote:

> Hello Xymon Support  / Henrik,

> 

> We are planning to use Xymon tool for our GE DEIT infrastructure.

> 

> We are in process of evaluating Xymon in initial phase.

> We downloaded and installed " xymon-4.3.11" version a RHEL 6.2 node.

> 

> I have referred all the installation steps mentioned at " http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems <http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems> "

> The installation is completed. However we are getting "Page Not Found" error on accessing "http://hydxymon01.nms.dev.ps.ge.com/xymon <http://hydxymon01.nms.dev.ps.ge.com/xymon> "

> 

> It looks like apache web server is not able to find index.html page set for Xymon web server. Some configuration missing.

> Kindly advise.

> 

> I have attached addition information for installation, etc.

> Let me know if you need any other details

> 

> Thanks,

> Prachi

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)

> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 3:04 PM

> To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)

> Subject: FW: Hej Henrik

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Xymon software sales [mailto:sales at xymon.com <mailto:sales at xymon.com> ]

> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:13 PM

> To: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)

> Subject: Re: Hej Henrik

> 

> Hi Sahil,

> 

> I am glad to hear that You would like to consider using Xymon for such a large scale deployment.

> 

> As you are probably aware, Xymon is licensed under an Open Source license. So there is no formal requirements for You to obtain any license, not even for commercial use. However, I have started offering some support for Xymon - it will give you access to e-mail support for one year. Of course, I would appreciate it if You would choose this option - there is a bit more detail available at http://www.xymon.com/license/ <http://www.xymon.com/license/> 

> 

> But for evaluating Xymon, just download the latest and greatest version (4.3.7, currently) and install it on a Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) server or virtual machine. The client software for Unix-like systems is included with the core Xymon download; for Windows-systems, the BBWin client is also available for download (there is no licensing cost for using it).

> 

> Xymon is available for download from

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.7/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.7/>  and BBwin is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin/files/bbwin/0.12/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin/files/bbwin/0.12/> 

> 

> If You have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me - or use the Xymon support mailinglist at xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> 

> 

> 

> Best regards,

> Henrik Størner

> 

> 

> On 10-01-2012 18:29, Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management) wrote:

>> Hey Henrik,

>> 

>> Hope you are doing good, I have worked with you at CSC Denmark on my

>> last assignment for SAS,NBIM, VIA , CSC internal etc and was using

>> Xymon for monitoring.

>> 

>> I am really impressed with the tool and now as I have left CSC and

>> joined GE , I am trying to evaluate possibility to use Xymon on a

>> commercial level for a business unit under GE called as Digital Energy.

>> 

>> I plan to use it for 35 sites worldwide for monitoring and reporting.

>> Please can you suggest on how can we proceed to a full scale

>> evaluation of the product for my requirement.

> 

 

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