Xymon Tool

Hello Xymon Support team,

 
Need your help in getting xymon up2date as per our requirements.

Let me brief you here for the current setup.

 
We have various sites/datacenters across the globe which includes servers (windows / Linux/Solaris physical servers and VMs, VMware ESX hosts) and network devices like switches, routers and firewall.

We need to monitor critical servers/VMs and network devices here.

 
In initial phase we could install, configure xymon older version ie 4.3.10 on a linux node at Hyderabad site.

We have added couple of windows and linux clients as of now.

 
Currently it is monitoring following components:

connection, cpu, disk, memory, messages, netstats (ports), processes, services, uptime, user-logins

 
I also tried to add a network switch device in xymon, however it shows conn is the only parameter to monitor.

Refer below screenshot, inhydswt3a is the network switch that we added.

Figure 2 shows: the trend it captured for switch.

Figure 3 shows the trend metrics report for TCP connections.

 
However, we are looking for more specific usage of xymon as a tool to monitor the virtual machines (windows and linux both) and the connection from other sites to find potentials problems and tracking of latency and throughput  and  provide a visible dashboard of that connection (and available latency/bandwidth if possible).

 
Kindly assist further how to achieve this. Is there any custom graphs/trends can be captured through xymon.

 
Figure1:

 
Figure 2: inhydswt3a is the network switch

 
Figure 3: hydmap01 is windows VM

 
Thanks,

Prachi

 
From: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:18 PM
To: 'Henrik Størner'
Cc: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)
Subject: RE: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 
Hi Henrik,

 
I could manage installing xymon older version ie 4.3.10 on a linux node. And it is working now. 

However I am facing following error while monitoring Conn and xymonnet parameters.

 
Below is the error/screenshot.

 
Conn:

 
Xymonnet:

 
Thanks,

Prachi

 
From: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:50 PM
To: 'Henrik Størner'
Subject: RE: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 
Hi Henrik,

 
I have applied the patch.

 
[root at hydxymon01 xymon-4.3.11]# patch -p0 < /tmp/attachment.diff

patching file xymongen/loaddata.c

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] y

[root at hydxymon01 xymon-4.3.11]#

 
Then restarted httpd and xymon services.

Tried to access http://3.185.120.18/xymon Or http://3.185.120.18/xymon/

Webpages, but getting PAGE not found error.

 
I altered the DocumentRoot in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to use following.

 
[root at hydxymon01 logs]# grep DocumentRoot /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

DocumentRoot "/home/xymon/server/www"

[root at hydxymon01 logs]#

 
Again restarted xymon and httpd services and launched the URL. Getting following error now.

 
[root at hydxymon01 logs]# tail -f error_log

[Tue Jul 09 13:45:07 2013] [error] [client 3.185.141.56] (13)Permission denied: access to /xymon denied

[Tue Jul 09 13:46:32 2013] [error] [client 3.185.141.56] (13)Permission denied: access to /xymon/ denied

 
Kindly advise.

 
Thanks,

Prachi

 
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)
Subject: SV: RE: FW: Hej Henrik

 
Hi, you use the 'patch' utility. Go to the xymon-4.3.11 directory and run 'patch -p0 < /tmp/attachment.diff'. Then run make and make install. 

Regards,
Henrik

"Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)" <user-3c9dad34824b@xymon.invalid> skrev:

Hi Henrik,

 
Thank you for your response.

 
From the URL you sent, I could find download attachment  : attachment.diff file

 
How shall I add the patch in my xymon installation. I tried to see the contents of the file and it says to unload and load loaddata.c module.

Kindly brief me the procedure to install the patch.

 
[root at hydxymon01 ~]# cat /tmp/attachment.diff

--- xymongen/loaddata.c 2013-04-23 10:40:34.012594724 +0200

+++ ../4.3.11/xymongen/loaddata.c       2013-04-20 17:31:30.052595173 +0200

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

/*                                                                            */

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

 
-static char rcsid[] = "$Id: loaddata.c 7196 2013-04-23 08:40:25Z storner $";

+static char rcsid[] = "$Id: loaddata.c 7181 2013-04-20 15:31:22Z storner $";

 
#include <limits.h>

#include <stdio.h>

@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@

                        char *bcmd;

 
                        bcmd = (char *)malloc(1024 + (filter ? strlen(filter) : 0));

-                       sprintf(bcmd, "xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist %s", (filter ? filter: ""));

+                       sprintf(bcmd, "xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist %s", filter);

                        xymondresult = sendmessage(bcmd, NULL, XYMON_TIMEOUT, sres);

                        board = getsendreturnstr(sres, 1);

                        xfree(bcmd);

[root at hydxymon01 ~]#

 
Thanks,

Prachi

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon software sales [mailto:user-b48b6a772c94@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:40 AM
To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)
Subject: Re: FW: Hej Henrik

 
Hi,

 
4.3.11 has a known bug that may cause it to not generate the standard webpages. A fix was posted to the mailing list shortly after the release, you can find it here:

 
http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-April/037357.html <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-April/037357.html>; 

 
If that doesn't solve the problem, please check your apache configuration - you need to add the Xymon apache config to the webserver.

 
Regards,

Henrik

 
On 08-07-2013 10:25, Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote:

Hello Xymon Support  / Henrik,

We are planning to use Xymon tool for our GE DEIT infrastructure.

We are in process of evaluating Xymon in initial phase.

We downloaded and installed " xymon-4.3.11" version a RHEL 6.2 node.

I have referred all the installation steps mentioned at " http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems <http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems>; "

The installation is completed. However we are getting "Page Not Found" error on accessing "http://hydxymon01.nms.dev.ps.ge.com/xymon <http://hydxymon01.nms.dev.ps.ge.com/xymon>; "

It looks like apache web server is not able to find index.html page set for Xymon web server. Some configuration missing.

Kindly advise.

I have attached addition information for installation, etc.

Let me know if you need any other details

Thanks,

Prachi

-----Original Message-----

From: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)

Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 3:04 PM

To: Nawale, Prachi (GE Energy, Non-GE)

Subject: FW: Hej Henrik

-----Original Message-----

From: Xymon software sales [mailto:user-b48b6a772c94@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-b48b6a772c94@xymon.invalid> ]

Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:13 PM

To: Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management)

Subject: Re: Hej Henrik

Hi Sahil,

I am glad to hear that You would like to consider using Xymon for such a large scale deployment.

As you are probably aware, Xymon is licensed under an Open Source license. So there is no formal requirements for You to obtain any license, not even for commercial use. However, I have started offering some support for Xymon - it will give you access to e-mail support for one year. Of course, I would appreciate it if You would choose this option - there is a bit more detail available at http://www.xymon.com/license/ <http://www.xymon.com/license/>; 

But for evaluating Xymon, just download the latest and greatest version (4.3.7, currently) and install it on a Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) server or virtual machine. The client software for Unix-like systems is included with the core Xymon download; for Windows-systems, the BBWin client is also available for download (there is no licensing cost for using it).

Xymon is available for download from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.7/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.7/>;  and BBwin is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin/files/bbwin/0.12/ <http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin/files/bbwin/0.12/>; 

If You have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me - or use the Xymon support mailinglist at xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> 

Best regards,

Henrik Størner

On 10-01-2012 18:29, Khan, Sahil (GE Energy Management) wrote:

Hey Henrik,

Hope you are doing good, I have worked with you at CSC Denmark on my

last assignment for SAS,NBIM, VIA , CSC internal etc and was using

Xymon for monitoring.

I am really impressed with the tool and now as I have left CSC and

joined GE , I am trying to evaluate possibility to use Xymon on a

commercial level for a business unit under GE called as Digital Energy.

I plan to use it for 35 sites worldwide for monitoring and reporting.

Please can you suggest on how can we proceed to a full scale

evaluation of the product for my requirement.