bb-ack

-----Original Message-----
From: Gore, David W Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 16:48
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] bb-ack

-----Original Message-----
From: Gore, David W
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 16:03
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] bb-ack

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

From: Henrik Størner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:52
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack

In

<user-8933222b8ee8@xymon.invalid
m> "Gore, David W" <user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid> writes:

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From: Henrik St=C3=B8rner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]=20
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 22:14
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-ack
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In=20
<user-ad6711ad8037@xymon.invalid
m> "Gore, David W" <user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid> writes:
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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

This has been resolved by a new install of 4.2.2.  I could not determine where the problem is after I installed a new instance of Xymon. I copied the current configs one by one to the new Xymon install but none of the old config files caused a problem.

~David