[Xymon] Question concerning port monitoring

[Ralph Mitchell]

Personally, I think I'd put check scripts on another system and check the
server instances individually, with different report columns for each.  I
had that working really well at EDS, with over 2500 reports being generated
for around 400 different "systems".  The test system was also the Xymon
server, which was a 733MHz, single cpu DL380.  I used cron for scheduling,
mostly every 5 minutes, with some longer periods (e.g. ssl certs once per
day) and one test that ran every 30 seconds...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:

> Ah -- I see.  Then the ports column covers all of the listeners on that
> host so port 5321 is down and it goes red.....  Okay that's a different
> issue.  Will have to think about that for a bit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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> Novosielski [novosirj at umdnj.edu]
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> By server, he means "server instance." If he stops one "server" (like an
> instance of Tomcat or something), he would like it to be separated out
> from other instances of same on the same machine.
>
> On 04/28/2011 02:47 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
> > I might be missing your question.  If I want to monitor certain ports for
> host xyz and other ports for host abc I can tell the software to do this by
> configuring the server side hobbit-clients.cfg (analysis.cfg in xymon).
>  These tests could also be for the same ports on different hosts.  Make sure
> that the changes appear above the DEFAULT stanza in the file.
> >
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > HOST=fred
> > ....
> > PORT LOCAL=%(:13782|:13722|:13724|:13783) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow
> TEXT=netbackup
> > ....
> >
> > HOST=jane
> > ...
> > PORT LOCAL=%(:1372|:1322|:1372|:137) STATE=LISTEN MIN=1 COLOR=yellow
> TEXT=splat
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> We have a server that is running 3 different processes.  In the
> >> hobbit-clients.cfg file, I have some PORT checks that are making sure
> they
> >> are listening on the appropriate port.
> >>
> >> The problem I have is if the DEV server is taken down for maintenance, I
> >> can’t just disable the “ports” check, because that will disable the
> monitors
> >> for the PROD and TEST ports.
> >>
> >> How can I go about splitting out the port checks for a server and being
> able
> >> to enable/disable/acknowledge separately?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
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