[Xymon] Devices do not appear to be updating

Nilesh Bharakhada bharakhada.nilesh at gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 13:13:04 CET 2013


the entry in hosts.cfg is different - i'm getting data now :)


On 18 December 2013 12:11, Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter at gmx.com> wrote:

> You shouldn't need to unless %COMPUTERNAME% is not the same as your entry
> in hosts.cfg. Is it appearing in your Ghost Clients report?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Nilesh Bharakhada
>
> Sent: 12/18/13 12:04 PM
>
> To: Malcolm Hunter
>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Devices do not appear to be updating
>
> I'm being a noob..... I hadn't set the hostname in the registry.... DOH!
>
> On 18 December 2013 11:39, Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is BBWin creating files in the bbwin\tmp folder? Have you checked
>> connectivity to the Xymon server:
>>
>> telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1984
>>
>> Malcolm
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>> On 18 December 2013 11:20:51 Nilesh Bharakhada wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> Yes - Log-SVR is also a windows server. I've checked the BBWin.cfg files
>> on both and both are the same
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>> <configuration>
>> <bbwin>
>> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="z.z.z.z" />
>>
>> <!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
>> <setting name="mode" value="central" />
>> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
>>
>> <setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
>> <setting name="timer" value="5m" />
>> <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
>> <load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
>> <load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
>> <load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/>
>> <load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
>> <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
>> <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
>> <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
>> <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
>> <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
>> <load name="who" value="who.dll"/>
>> <setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
>> <setting name="logpath" value="..\logs\BBWin.log"/>
>> <!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as warning events
>> -->
>> <setting name="logreportfailure" value="false" />
>> </bbwin>
>> </configuration>
>>
>> I've restarted the Big Brother Xymon service on the ACS-Svr and in the
>> log file I get
>>
>> 2013/12/18 11:09:21 [INFO]: bbwin is stopped.
>> 2013/12/18 11:09:22 [INFO]: [filesystem]: failed to load logfetch status
>> C:\Program Files\BBWin\tmp\logfetch.status : The system cannot find the
>> file specified.
>> 2013/12/18 11:09:22 [INFO]: bbwin is started - using central configuration
>>
>> I thought I'd restart the service on the Log-Svr and I get the same
>> messages.....
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 18 December 2013 11:02, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
>>>
>>> Your Xymon server isn't receiving any client messages from ACS-Svr.  Is
>>> Log-Svr also a Windows server?  If so, check that the client is configured
>>> the same way.  Either way, check that your Xymon client (eg BBWin) is
>>> running and is not producing errors.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 December 2013 20:54, Nilesh Bharakhada <
>>> bharakhada.nilesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Morning
>>>>
>>>> Firstly - just to pre-warn everyone, I'm pretty new to Xymon (and to
>>>> mailing lists) - although so far it has been pretty easy to setup.
>>>>
>>>> I'm slowly adding some windows servers. The last device I added last
>>>> night doesn't seem to be adding any checks apart from the standard "conn",
>>>> "info" and "trends"
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline images 1]
>>>>
>>>> My hosts.cfg file is as follows:
>>>>
>>>> x.x.x.x    Log-Svr                 # NOCOLUMNS:files
>>>> y.y.y.y    ACS-Svr                 # NOCOLUMNS:files
>>>>
>>>> My analysis.cfg file is as follows:
>>>>
>>>> HOST=Log-Svr
>>>>         DISK C 80 90
>>>>         DISK E 80 90
>>>>         MEMPHYS 75 101
>>>>         MEMSWAP 75 85
>>>>         MEMACT 75 85
>>>>         SVC TermService
>>>>         SVC SNMP
>>>>         SVC CASDiscovery
>>>>         SVC CASUniversalAgent
>>>>         SVC CatTools
>>>>         SVC FileZilla_Server
>>>>         SVC Kiwi_Syslog_Server
>>>>         PROC snmp.exe 1 1
>>>>         PROC CatTools_Service.ex 1 1
>>>>         PROC CatTools_Client.exe
>>>>         PROC FileZilla server.exe 1 1
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](3389)$ TEXT=RemoteDesktop
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](445)$ TEXT=Microsoft-DS
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](21)$ TEXT=FTP
>>>>
>>>> #ACS SERVER
>>>> HOST=ACS-Svr
>>>>         DISK C 80 90
>>>>         DISK E 80 90
>>>>         MEMPHYS 75 101
>>>>         MEMSWAP 75 85
>>>>         MEMACT 75 85
>>>>         SVC TermService
>>>>         SVC SNMP
>>>>         SVC CASDiscovery
>>>>         SVC CASUniversalAgent
>>>>         SVC CatTools
>>>>         SVC FileZilla_Server
>>>>         SVC Kiwi_Syslog_Server
>>>>         SVC SolarWinds_TFTP_Server
>>>>         PROC snmp.exe 1 1
>>>>         PROC CatTools_Service.ex 1 1
>>>>         PROC CatTools_Client.exe
>>>>         PROC FileZilla server.exe 1 1
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](3389)$ TEXT=RemoteDesktop
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](445)$ TEXT=Microsoft-DS
>>>>         PORT STATE=LISTENING LOCAL=%[.:](21)$ TEXT=FTP
>>>>
>>>> Looking through all of the log files (/var/log/xymon/) I can't seem to
>>>> find anything that would give me a clue about why this device isn't updating
>>>>
>>>> Thanks everyone
>>>>
>>>> Nilesh
>>>>
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