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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all, I am working on pushing some data that I have collected and formatted on my clients into my Xymon 4.3.4 installation. Basically, the issue is that I cannot get the alerts to trigger for these specific hosts/services. All my other alerting works great, and I was hoping someone might have some insight. Let me walk you through the process:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- First, on the server, I updated the TEST2RRD variable in xymonserver.cfg to reflect my new columns that the clients will be reporting on (shortened for readability):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> TEST2RRD=cpu=la,disk,inode,………………,vmware,vmware-cpu,vmware-memory,vmware-storage,vmware-datastore,vmware-chassis,vmware-guest"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Secondly, I updated the hosts.cfg file:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>page vmware VMWare Servers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>group-except conn|trends <H3><B><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica">VMWare ESXi Servers</font></B></H3><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>0.0.0.0 my-dc09.root.whatever # noconn vmware vmware-chassis vmware-cpu vmware-datastore vmware-memory vmware-storage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l3 level3 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>0.0.0.0<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>vmware2.root.something # noconn vmware vmware-chassis vmware-cpu vmware-datastore vmware-memory vmware-storage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Third, I updated the alerts.cfg:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PAGE=vmware<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> SCRIPT /usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/emailConnector.sh alert@email.com REPEAT=24h SERVICE=vmware,vmware-chassis,vmware-cpu,vmware-datastore,vmware-memory,vmware-storage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now that the server side is done, I run this command on the client:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> BBWinCmd.exe myserver.com:1984 status my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu red $CPUmessage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Command works good. I see that in Xymon the vmware-memory column for my-dc09.root.whatever went red, and the main vmware page I defined in hosts.cfg is red as well. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is where things start to go bad, I cannot get it to alert on this. So I ran an additional troubleshooting command from the server:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>me@monitor:/usr/lib/xymon/server$ ./bin/xymoncmd --env=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg xymond_alert --test my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu --duration 501<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 send_alert my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu state Paging<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 123<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'HOST=*' (color)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 141<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=vmware' (color)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 148<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=servers' (pagename not in include list)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Matching host:service:page 'my-dc09.root.whatever:vmware-cpu:vmware' against rule line 150<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'HOST=%(ns1|silver|red).whatever.com' (hostname not in include list)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The part that is very strange to me is this line: 00002392 2013-08-02 10:00:35 Failed 'PAGE=vmware' (color)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This seems to tell me that it matched on the page vmware as it should, but did not match due to color, even though the vmware page and the my-dc09.root.whatever vmware-cpu column is absolutely red. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have tried adding in things like COLOR=Red to my hosts.cfg but it still fails in the same way. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for any help or ideas you may have.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-Nathan Riley<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>