[Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems

[Carl Inglis]

As Paul pointed out, use “xymond_alert” rather than “xymon_alert”. One of the most useful debug tools I’ve found for alerting is:

Add --cfid to the CMD in the [alerts] section of tasks.cfg

It means that when you *do* get your alerts working, you’ll get the line number of test line that fired in the subject of the message; this allows you to identify exactly which rule triggered the message.

Good luck. ☺

From: Tres Finocchiaro [mailto:tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com]
Sent: 10 September 2014 16:22
To: Ribeiro, Glauber
Cc: Carl Inglis; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems

@Carl,

Thank, I believe that corrected the lingering telnet.  It has not reappeared, thank you.

But I'm still not receiving alerts.  We've intentionally left SSH disabled on this switch to trigger an alert, but emails don't seem to be going through.

What is the command to trigger a test email from xymon?  I found this in the archives:
$ xymoncmd xymon_alert --test SWITCH1 ssh

But I get this:
2014-09-10 11:14:01 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/xymonserver.cfg
2014-09-10 11:14:01 execvp() failed: No such file or directory

I assume xymon doesn't stop sending alerts after a timeout period, right?  We chose to use the SSH service since it doesn't affect our environment.  We can add a fake hostname/ip as well.  I fear may have something misconfigured since alerts won't go through at all.

-Tres

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