[Xymon] Services false positive

[Novosielski, Ryan]

If I'm not mistaken, there are notes in the client software that say that that mode is sort of beta/buggy at this point.


From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:08 AM
To: Novosielski, Ryan; 'sholmes42 at mac.com' <sholmes42 at mac.com>
Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com' <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: [Xymon] Services false positive

Ok, I got it, I switched the servers from central to local and that did the trick, thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated

From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:01 AM
To: Matthew Harris; 'sholmes42 at mac.com'
Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive

That will only work for server-side tests (that originate from the Xymon net portion). My guess is you can still solve this problem with a combination of directives however -- look at the CLIENT directive. Presuming you can set the client's name in BBWIN to something specific, you can then use that directive to make the Xymon display associate that alternate name to it. Seems like a pain in the neck though. Might be worth it to look into the alternate Windows clients?



From: MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> [mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:58 AM
To: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com<mailto:sholmes42 at mac.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive

It doesn’t look like the testip tag worked, these are windows hosts with the bbwin 0.13 agent on them.

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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Services false positive


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> <MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com>> wrote:
Hey Everyone, I think I found a bug in xymon, I am monitoring a few hundred servers and I found that servers with similar names but different purposes are trying to report the same services.  For instance, XXXXXXXXXXX486 and XXXXXXXXXXX487 is duplicating the service checks for  XXXXXXXXXXX48.  Is there any way that anyone knows of to get xymon to look at the entire machine name instead of just the first 12 characters of it?


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Are the servers in question Solaris zones on the same global zone? If so, many of the checks will be duplicated. This may also happen with other virtual environments, but I've only seen it for Solaris zones. In particular our ESX environment does not have this problem.

Steve

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