[Xymon] Issue with viewing history data for cpu usage

[Jeremy Laidman]

Do you get conn history files? You won't get disk or cpu unless the Xymon
client is running correctly on the other VB boxes.

J
 On 14/02/2013 3:32 AM, "Adapalli,Sridhar (HHSC)" <
Sridhar.Adapalli at hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote:

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> Jeremy ****
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> I found the set of history files.  There are files such as ausimo610.cpu,
> ausimo610.disk, etc.  However, I don’t find these files for some of the
> other servers that we are monitoring, and these are the ones that I am not
> able to see historical data.  I set up these servers recently.  Is there a
> separate setting to enable capturing of history data that I missed?****
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> Thanks****
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> *Sridhar Adapalli**,* CISSP, PMP****
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> ****Enterprise**** Identity & Access Management****
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> Health and Human Services, State of ****Texas********
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> *From:* Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:19 AM
> *To:* Adapalli,Sridhar (HHSC)
> *Subject:* RE: [Xymon] Issue with viewing history data for cpu usage****
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> Dunno. But run xymoncmd and then type "set | grep host" and it should show.
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> J****
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> On 14/02/2013 2:37 AM, "Adapalli,Sridhar (HHSC)" <
> Sridhar.Adapalli at hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote:****
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> Jeremy****
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> Thanks for getting back to me.  I am using Hobbit, the older version.  Can
> you please let me know the equivalent environment variables for Hobbit?***
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> Thanks****
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> *Sridhar Adapalli**,* CISSP, PMP****
>
> ****Enterprise**** Identity & Access Management****
>
> Health and Human Services, State of ****Texas********
>
> 438 4603****
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> *From:* Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:57 PM
> *To:* Adapalli,Sridhar (HHSC)
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Issue with viewing history data for cpu usage****
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> Xymon looks for the history file in the directory that XYMONHISTDIR is set
> to.  Run something like this to find out what it's set to:****
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>   echo echo \$XYMONHISTDIR | xymoncmd****
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> Ensure that the directory is writeable by the Xymon user and/or group and
> is also readable by the web user and/or group.  Also check to see if the
> directory contains the file "hostname.service" matching whatever you are
> trying to get history on, but where the hostname has commas instead of dots.
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> In cases like this, I try to replicate the process myself as the process
> user.  So for example my webserver runs as user "wwwrun" so I do this:****
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>   $ sudo -u wwwrun xymoncmd****
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>   sh$ echo $XYMONHISTDIR****
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>   /var/lib/xymon/hist****
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>   sh$ cd $XYMONHISTDIR****
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>   ls****
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>   sh$ head the,host,name.conn****
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> If I get any errors with this, then it points to where the problem is.
>  Common problems like this are caused by Xymon not being able to create the
> file or Apache not being able to read the file/directory.  In most cases,
> it's filesystem permissions, but in some cases it's kernel-level security
> such as SELINUX.  In the latter case, the output of "dmesg|tail"
> immediately after an attempt will usually confirm.****
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> J****
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> On 13 February 2013 05:38, Adapalli,Sridhar (HHSC) <
> Sridhar.Adapalli at hhsc.state.tx.us> wrote:****
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> Hi****
>
> I am using Hobbit monitor 4.2., when I click on History button for all the
> parameters that I am monitoring (cpu, http, memory, etc.), I get a message
> “Cannot open history file”.  Can someone let me know how to fix this issue?
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> -- Sridhar****
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