[xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery

[TJ Yang]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> It would take all of 10 minutes to install one on a Virtual Machine!
>

Also, this documentation project is not approved by xymon community.
Me and my other co-worker are the only end-users of this doc.

When ideatorrent is back online, I will re-submit this documentation
idea(using latex) to ideatorrent.
>From there, we can see other alternative solutions from other people.

This will my last post on this email thread, sorry this should have
gone to developer or with other subject in xymon user M.L.

tj
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:55 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Josh Luthman
>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>> Are you prepared to share it?
>>
>> Of course, but it is not ready for public consumption yet. The book
>> quality is at stage of Alpha. (Alph, beta,Gold).
>>
>> Josh, do you have access to Fedora 1x machine at home/work ?
>> if so, I can release the source to you so you can work on it :)
>>
>> tj
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com> wrote:
>>>>> LOL!  Funny, but kinda rude.
>>>>>
>>>> Josh didn't mean to be rude.
>>>>
>>>> There was a book called "Hobbit RTFM" created using LaTeX by me. it is
>>>> a book composed of Henrik's documentation(html,troff material etc)
>>>> with Table of Contents and index.
>>>> I showed him a while back.
>>>> This is quite labor intensive even I only try to put the existing docs together.
>>>>
>>>> The book should be renamed to "Collection of Xymon Docs". so nobody
>>>> will got offended.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> tj
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:50 PM
>>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
>>>>>
>>>>> To my knowledge the best thing that relates to this is T.J.'s RTFM
>>>>> guide.  I browsed through it when the IRC channel was first
>>>>> created...long ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can always ask logical questions after searching the docs in IRC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> Yes, that is only for disabling alerting to create a maintenance window.
>>>>>>> It doesn't stop the checks from occurring. Thanks.
>>>>>> Great, I feel like a beginner now. Is there any day-to-day operations-manual
>>>>>> in the Xymon-documentation/wiki somewhere? I think I've missed the basic
>>>>>> Xymon operation-guidelines somehow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /melgaard
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Have you disabled alerting for that host or commented it out in your
>>>>>>> > bb-hosts? The way to disable a "check" for a host is to remove the check or
>>>>>>> > comment out the host in the bb-hosts. If you have just disabled the
>>>>>>> > "alerting", then it will continue to do the "check", just not alert you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've used the Enable/Disable-options in he Administration-part of Xymon,
>>>>>>> to disable the tests (the hobbit-enadis.sh-script) - is that just
>>>>>>> alert-disabling?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /melgaard
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> >> Hi,
>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>> >> One of our AD-servers went down for maintenance for 1 week, and I
>>>>>>>> >> disabled
>>>>>>>> >>  the conn+dns tests in Xymon for that period. Now the "bbtest" column
>>>>>>>> >>  suddenly goes yellow, and indicates that DNS lookups takes 450+
>>>>>>>> >> seconds
>>>>>>>> >>  now (indicating that the DNS-check for the maintenanced server is
>>>>>>>> >> still
>>>>>>>> >>  active).
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > No, it indicates that the Xymon server is taking a long time to resolve
>>>>>>>> > host
>>>>>>>> > names to IP addresses. You may need to configure the DNS client
>>>>>>>> > settings on the
>>>>>>>> > Xymon server (e.g. adjust the 'server' parameters in /etc/resolv.conf).
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > If you have most IP addresses hardcoded correctly in bb-hosts, you may
>>>>>>>> > want to
>>>>>>>> > add the 'testip' flag to the relevant lines of bb-hosts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But why is the check still running against the AD-host I've disabled? It
>>>>>>>> looks like its that exact dns-check that takes 450 seconds to run (timeout).
>>>>>>>> Looking at the DNS-statistics:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DNS tests executed                          4602546.200466
>>>>>>>>  450.096498
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> which is the normal checks + the 450 second timeout. All other dns-checks
>>>>>>>> run fine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Shouldnt I except something like this (from the conn checks):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "System unreachable for 764 poll periods (363317 seconds)"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> instead of:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Service dns on xxx07 is OK
>>>>>>>> Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test
>>>>>>>> Host appears to be down
>>>>>>>> Timeout
>>>>>>>> Seconds: 450.003"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> when I've disabled all the checks on the host, and the server is powered
>>>>>>>> down? Or am I missing something here?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /melgaard
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