[Xymon] Custom Second Network (conn) Test, Round Two...

[Ron Cohen]

You should send the data in a "data" instruction:
Cat mydsta.dat|$xymon --merge $xymsrv "data server.column whatever"

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, 20:49 Scott Driemeier-Showers, <sshowers at negwer.com>
wrote:

> Experts,
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> Revisiting a question I asked back in 2017, and is still nagging me today.
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> We monitor (among many other things) the network connections to our remote
> offices with Xymon.  Each site has a “primary” network/firewall interface
> that is monitored using the “conn” test.  I created a custom script to
> monitor a “secondary” interface (labeled “voip”) at each site.  From a
> purely monitoring and alerting standpoint this combination of tests
> operates flawlessly.
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> What I have never been able to get to work is the RRD/graphing on the
> secondary interface.
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> To TEST2RRD in xymonserver.cfg I added “,voip=tcp” to the end of the
> stanza.
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> To GRAPHS in xymonserver.cfg I added “,voip” to the end of the stanza.
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> To graphs.cfg I added the [voip] service definition, specifying FNPATTERN
> ^tcp.voip.(.+).rrd
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> The script builds results for each interface, set appropriate variable
> values, and sends data with:
>
>                 $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $SRVR.$COLUMN $STAT `date`
> \n${MESG} \n&${STAT} ${DATA} \n"
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> What is NOT happening is the .rrd file is not being created.
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> Comparing the custom test results with those of the conn test in xymondlog:
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> # xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog talsau.nmi.dom.voip"
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> talsau.nmi.dom|voip|green||1682104123|1682449560|1682451360|0|0|192.168.10.250||||N|
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> green Tue Apr 25 14:06:00 CDT 2023
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> Service voip on talsau.nmi.dom is OK (up)
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> &green 10.10.24.251 is alive (16.3 ms)
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> # xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog talsau.nmi.dom.conn"
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> talsau.nmi.dom|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1682407336|1682449750|1682451550|0|0|192.168.10.250||||N|
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> green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Apr 25 14:09:09 2023 conn ok
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> Service conn on talsau.nmi.dom is OK (up)
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> &green 192.168.24.251 is alive (22.1 ms)
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> The only difference I see is the conn test includes “|OrdAstLe|” flags in
> position 4, where the voip test is blank.
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> Any thoughts/input would be greatly appreciated…
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> Thanks,
> Scott
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