RE: [hobbit] bb-ack

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gore, David W 
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 16:03
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] bb-ack
> 
> > -----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

Disabling hosts is completely non-functional as well as I just realized.  When you select one or more hosts, nothing shows up in the Tests column.  Perhaps for the same reason bb-ack is not working?  Cookies?  Or something else?

~David