[Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring

[Tim McCloskey]

I think you're right on that one.  Unless there are different ip|name:port pairs I don't see how this can be implemented without some scripting.  That's one of the really cool things about xymon -- you can create pretty much whatever you want to extend the system.
733MHz!  Wow, that's some high tech kit.  Most of our servers are 16MHz 8080's with 64k of RAM.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Mitchell [ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring

Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the server instances individually, with different report columns for each.  I had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated for around 400 different "systems".  The test system was also the Xymon server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380.  I used cron for scheduling, mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote:
Ah -- I see.  Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that host so port 5321 is down and it goes red.....  Okay that's a different issue.  Will have to think about that for a bit.

Thanks,

Tim
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring

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By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an
instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out
from other instances of same on the same machine.

On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
> I might be missing your question.  If I want to monitor certain ports for host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon).  These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts.  Make sure that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
>
>
> For example:
>
> HOST=fred
> ....
> PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=netbackup
> ....
>
> HOST=jane
> ...
> PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow TEXT=splat
> ...
>
>
> Tim
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com<mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com>> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We have a server that is running 3 different processes.  In the
>> hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure they
>> are listening on the appropriate port.
>>
>> The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I
>> can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the monitors
>> for the PROD and TEST ports.
>>
>> How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being able
>> to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
>>
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