[Xymon] Question about hobbit-plugins (apt and libs)

[Adam Goryachev]

On 26/01/16 22:16, Yann Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to XYmon (and happy to have found it) and I would like to see 
> every icon in green :-).
>
> I have installed the hobbit-plugins on two linux servers (Ubuntu 14.04 
> *) and the 'apt' and 'libs' icons remains yellow.
>
> The details are as follow:
>
> - apt: 'Packages not installed from apt repositories'
>
> - libs: 'One of /proc/config.gz and /boot/config-3.13.0-76-generic was 
> not found, cannot check kernel uptodateness' and 'The following 
> processes have libs linked that were upgraded' (mysql)
>
> Is there a way to disable these particular checks ?
>
> For 'apt', it seems normal to me to install software from special 
> repositories to get actual versions.
>
That depends on how you decide what software to install. In any case, if 
you look at the ext script itself, you will see that you can add these 
special packages to a file, and they will be excluded from the check. 
You can then still monitor if other unexpected packages are replaced.
> For 'libs', the first "problem" is normal with Ubuntu (no 
> '/proc/config.gz' file). I don't know what to think of the other one. 
> It looks like 'mysql' has been compiled with libraries that have been 
> or should have been updated.

It means that libraries that mysql is using have been updated, but mysql 
itself hasn't been restarted, so it isn't using the new version of those 
libraries. (ie, mysql might still be vulnerable to whatever security or 
bug was fixed). To resolve this, just restart the process identified. 
You could of course, delay that restart to your maintenance window as 
needed.
> * both the XYmon server and the hobbit-plugins were not installed from 
> the 14.04 repos as they are outdated

So where were they installed from? I'm assuming the versions you are 
using are somewhat similar to what I am using from the standard debian repo.

Regards,
Adam


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