[Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

[Thomas Hawkins]

Ok, I thought I had this working, but not quite.  I'm noticing that only
one PROC is ever evaluated from my groups in addition to any custom procs
listed for the specific server.  Here is an example:
Host: tee which is defined in 4 places:
DELTS/DB
DELTS2/LINUX
DELTS2/L-VM
DELTS2/T-L-PROD

analysis.cfg
PAGE=DELTS2/LINUX
        PROC cron 1 -1 red "TEXT=crond : Task Scheduler"
        PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=ntpd : Network Time Client"

PAGE=DELTS2/L-VM
        PROC vmware-guestd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=VMWare Tools"

HOST=tee
        PROC mysqld 2 -1 red

But when I look at tee, only two procs are monitored, cron and mysqld.  If
I comment out cron, the ntpd is monitored along with mysqld.  This seems to
happen across all servers.  If there are additional procs under the
individual HOST entry, they are also monitored successfully.

I did a bit of testing with ./xymond_client --test --debug and I seem to
get the same result, but I can't figure out why it will only evaluate one
PROC test from my lists.

The only other change I made that may be significant is that I configured a
Windows server to use central mode so that I can start monitoring services
on Windows machines.  I had to make some of the Xymon message variables a
bit bigger to accomplish this.  Not sure if it is related though.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Michael Burger <
Mike.Burger at freedommortgage.com> wrote:

> Yup…I define the hosts in different subpage groupings.****
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> My home page lists strictly pages, each page lists the subpages, and the
> subpages list the hosts contained within.****
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> This would likely also allow me to have different (sub)pages list the same
> hosts, but with different columns displayed. I haven’t tried monkeying
> around with that level of configuration, though.****
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> --****
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> *Mike Burger*****
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> *AIX Administrator*
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> "Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey
> you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time."
> --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts****
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> *From:* Thomas Hawkins [mailto:cornmaster at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 9:55 AM
> *To:* Michael Burger; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg****
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> Hummm, that is interesting. You define the host multiple times in
> hosts.cfg? Is that a supported setup?
>
> How does your main homepage look?
>
> We have three sub pages, and one sub-sub page. I assume under this setup,
> you would need more subpages splintering off the main home page for this to
> work. Although it would be nice at a glance to see all of the server
> grouped by my various 'tags' as well as function.
>
> Thomas****
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> *From: *"Michael Burger" <Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com> ****
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> *Date: *Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:38:19 -0500****
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> *To: *Thomas Hawkins<cornmaster at gmail.com>; <xymon at xymon.com>****
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> *Subject: *RE: [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg****
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> FWIW, I have a number of cases where I have hosts on multiple (sub)pages.
> I don’t use them for the analysis.cfg as much as for the alerts.cfg, but in
> this way, I can have a page for team x’s servers, team y’s servers, prod,
> non-prod, or all server.****
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> --****
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> *Mike Burger*****
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> *E-mail:  **Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com*<Anthony.House at freedommortgage.com>
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> "Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey
> you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time."
> --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts****
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<xymon-bounces at xymon.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Thomas Hawkins
> *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2012 8:22 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg****
>
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> We have 50 or 60 servers configured across a number of pages in our xymon
> instance.  Instead of having 60 host=hostname entries with generic entries
> across all of the servers, I want to set up some groups/tags/etc... that
> can be applied to a host.****
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> So, I figured out I could do:****
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> PAGE=DELTS/*/*****
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>         #Defaults for all DELTS Servers****
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>         PROC crond 1 -1 red "TEXT=crond : Task Scheduler"****
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>         PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=ntpd : Network Time Client"****
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> To go across all of our servers on our subpages to apply these two proc
> checks.****
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> What I would like to do is get a bit more specific.  We have a mix of
> physical machines, virtual machines, and linux machines, windows machines,
> and production machines and development machines.****
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> I'd like to be able to tag hosts somehow so I can do something like this:*
> ***
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> Host 1 = Linux, Production, VM****
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> Host 2 = Linux, Physical, Dev****
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> Linux:****
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> PROC - ntp, cron****
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> ** **
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> Production:****
>
> PROC - backup client****
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> ** **
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> VM:****
>
> PROC - vmwaretools****
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> ** **
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> Physical:****
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> nothing additional.****
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> ** **
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> Dev:****
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> nothing additional****
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> So for Host1 it will do the following PROC tests:****
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> ntp, cron, backup client, vmwaretools****
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> ** **
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> Whereas Host2 will only do:****
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> ntp, cron****
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> I understand that if I had hosts configured into like groups, or subpages
> then I could target the whole works that way, but I currently have my hosts
> configured in a way that this is not practical.  Essentially I have all
> hosts divided into 3 major groups, and then a number of subgroups, and then
> the hosts are listed here based on application cluster or function.  Basing
> it on groups or pages would also require me to create a bunch of additional
> rules to account for each of the situations above, whereas something like a
> tag that a host could have multiple of would simplify things.****
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> Can anyone provide any insight as to how I can achieve these goals?****
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> Thanks,****
>
> Thomas****
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