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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Good afternoon,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Having just upgraded from Xymon 4.2.3 on CentOS 5.11, our environment is now Xymon 4.3.28-1.el7.terabithia on CentOS 7.4.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a group of systems defined that monitors (via conn/ping) the internal interface of the primary router at each of our remote offices to tell us whether or not the connection is up. Each office also has a secondary/backup network connection that is used for load balancing, VoIP, and failover.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In order to see each site as a single row on the web page we wrote a client-side extension to ping the backup router’s internal interface. The monitoring, display, and alerting all work like we’d hoped (and has for a long time). Unlike the primary connection’s monitor, however, the backup connection is not creating a RRD file so can’t be graphed. I am trying to fix that, and have been looking at the help page for setting up a custom graph but I can’t seem to connect the dots properly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The key logic from /etc/xymon-client/ext/voiptest.sh are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>##<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>## Logic to build remote site list happens first<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>##<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>foreach my $voipsvr (@rmt_names) {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $color = GREEN;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $status = $bbtest . " ok";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $DATA = "";<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ##<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ## Logic to determine secondary IP from primary IP happens here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ##<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> my ($voipip, $svrname, $junk) = split(/:/, $voipsvr, 3);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> my $pingres = `/usr/sbin/fping -Ae $voipip`;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $DATA .= $pingres;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> if ($pingres =~ "unreachable") {<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $color = RED;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> $status = $bbtest . " NOT ok"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> }<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ## Send to Hobbit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> #############################################################################<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> my $report_date = `/bin/date`;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> chomp($report_date);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> system("$ENV{XYMON} $ENV{XYMSRV} 'status $svrname.voip $color $report_date - $status\n\n$DATA'\n");<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could anybody point me in the right direction to get the RRD graph for each secondary TCP/Ping test to work?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Scott<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>P.S. -- The log/graph wasn’t working prior to the upgrade either. We just upgraded first to make sure our environment was current…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>P.P.S. -- We may have set this test up incorrectly, so please feel free to teach us if there is a better way to have done it…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>