RE: [hobbit] bb-ack

["Gore, David W" <david.gore (at) verizonbusiness.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:52
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack
> 
> In 
> <4589F14AA3744644BB56B950C422D6A909932E0B (at) ASHEVS008.mcilink.co
> m> "Gore, David W" <david.gore (at) verizonbusiness.com> writes:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Henrik St=C3=B8rner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk]=20
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 22:14
> >> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> >> Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack
> >>=20
> >> In=20
> >> <4589F14AA3744644BB56B950C422D6A9098C7D5F (at) ASHEVS008.mcilink.co
> >> m> "Gore, David W" <david.gore (at) verizonbusiness.com> writes:
> >>=20
> >> >I am running Red Hat release 4 and the latest snapshot.  I am 
> >> >also=20 running Apache 2.0.52.  When I try to acknowledge an 
> >> >alert=20
> >> it shows me=20
> >> >ALL the services that are alarming not just the alert I was=20
> >> interested=20
> >> >in.  Any idea what I can do to debug?
> >>=20
> >> That would usually mean that the cookie used by the 
> bb-ack=20  CGI to 
> >>determine what page or host you were looking at is=20  
> missing. Maybe 
> >>you have cookies disabled in your browser policy ?
> >>=20
> 
> >The cookies are not disabled.  Viewing the cookies in 
> firefox I can see 
> >= that the host cookie does NOT contain the hostname.  It 
> does contain 
> >the = hostname on a working server. =20
> 
> >So I installed the last test release from xymon.com web 
> page.  It also 
> >= exhibits the same problem.  I would guess that it is a 
> permission = 
> >problem since I have to correct numerous files to get the 
> server and = 
> >client to work properly.
> 
> Quite unlikely, the cookie is exchanged directly between the 
> Xymon server and your browser.
> 
> On the webpage where you view the status (just before going 
> to the ack- page), try doing a "View Source" (ctrl-U in 
> Firefox). Near the top you should see two lines like these:
>   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=mypage; path=/">
>   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/"> 
> (either the 'pagepath' or the 'host' cookie should be set, not both).
> Are these correct ?

No they are not correct.  They match what I am seeing in the cookies:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Sat, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="pagepath=; path=/">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Set-Cookie" CONTENT="host=; path=/">
<TITLE>yellow : Xymon - Status @ Mon Jan 05 15:44:42 2009</TITLE>

The EXPIRES date is sort of odd isn't it?  Is that set by Xymon, you can see the Xymon Status date.  We set our Xymon servers to GMT.

I did try to install 4.2.2 over top our test version but I get the same headers as above.

~David

> 
> There shouldn't be any file-permission issues with the final 
> 4.2.2 release.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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