[Xymon] Website monitoring?

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Thu Jul 28 03:46:33 CEST 2016


Pretty sure it is noconn as well.

I mean use the redirected URL with the extra directory and / instead of the
short one you have

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

On Jul 27, 2016 9:39 PM, "Ford, Alan" <Alan.FORD at stanwell.com> wrote:

> Try using the noconn option,
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> Plus you need to remove the conn status from your page…
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> xymon xymonserver  “drop site.name.com
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
>                conn”
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> *Alan Ford*
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> *Senior Database Administrator*
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> *Com Serv - Information Communications and Technology*
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> *Stanwell Corporation Limited*
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> Tel (07) 3335 7243 | Mob 0407 610 141
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> GPO Box 773, Brisbane, QLD 4001
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> www.stanwell.com
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Edmond Ruben
> *Sent:* Thursday, 28 July 2016 11:28 AM
> *To:* Josh Luthman
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Website monitoring?
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> Thanks for the quick response Josh,
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> I guess I don’t quite understand what you mean by “correct the HTTP URL”
> and is there a way to disable the ping test for one site only?  I was
> playing with the noping parm but it didn’t seem to change anything.
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> Thanks,
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> Ed Ruben
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> Systems Engineer
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> Fox Networks Group
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> (310) 369-8403 or 38403
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> Edmond.Ruben at fox.com
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> 10201 W. Pico Blvd. building 89 Los Angeles, CA 90035
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> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:28 PM
> *To:* Edmond Ruben <Ed.Ruben at fox.com>
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Website monitoring?
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> You can correct the HTTP URL and disable the ping test?
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
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> On Jul 27, 2016 8:22 PM, "Edmond Ruben" <Ed.Ruben at fox.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>
> We’re setting up monitoring in xymon for our websites, most are working
> great but I have a few issues.  Our hosts.cfg lines look like this:
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> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx                site.name.com
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
> # https:// site.name.com
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
> NK:http
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> We’re trying not to touch the sites by adding bbd files.  In one case we
> have what I believe is a non-standard redirection resulting in an orange !
> in the http column and this info on the http page for that site:
>
> [image: yellow] https://fngvob.foxinc.com/ - Moved Permanently
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> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
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> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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> Location: https://fngvob.foxinc.com/VOB_PD/
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> Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
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> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ASP.NET&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=vY8or03x_SIofvt6D3jiyCUoOFV_9rMjrM_pcX-IJqA&e=>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:10:15 GMT
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> Connection: close
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> Content-Length: 156
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> Seconds: 0.349426000
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> The second case is, there’s a firewall rule that prevents us from pinging
> an outside site as a result for that site we have a red face in the conn
> column and when I click it I see:
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> Service conn on fox.okta.com <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fox.okta.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=QtP4spP0J_ajbRoAbI2jwN5WpoeCCqqEAYuBPGMlna4&e=> is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
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> System unreachable for 132 poll periods (8135 seconds)
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> [image: red]54.197.192.167
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__54.197.192.167&d=DQQFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=dcW8zJge1h4lkeD1KzzadFlEOgsG6U3JpEHld8fGaZQ&e=>
> is unreachable
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> We would like to continue monitoring these sites because the info that is
> available is extremely valuable but would like to make the alerts go away
> without touching the sites or the firewall.  Does anybody have any
> suggestions on how this might be done?
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>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Ruben
>
> Systems Engineer
>
> Fox Networks Group
>
> (310) 369-8403 or 38403
>
> Edmond.Ruben at fox.com
>
> 10201 W. Pico Blvd. building 89 Los Angeles, CA 90035
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