Question about "all non-green view" and edit critical systems 🔗 link

Hello,

        I was wondering if there was a way to control which systems were summarized in the "all non-green view" window.
I'd like to use this as a sort of front end for our operations staff to monitor and don't need to have them calling about every
little thing.

        Also, I can't seem to find the correct user/pass to use when trying to run the "edit critical systems" or "acknowledge
alert" pages.  I'm running on Red Hat ES 5.9 and using Firefox for my browser.  Keeps saying the password is invalid. I've
tried the "xymon" account, "root" and even added a password to the "apache" account, but no success.  What is expected
here?

Thanks,
Ken


Ken Shackelford
Information Technology

Siemens Industry Sector
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
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It's likely that, at one point, you (or someone in your organization) ran
something like this on your Xymon server:

htpasswd -c $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonpasswd <username>

to create a password file Xymon's use and/or:

htpasswd $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonpasswd <username>

to update it with additional users or to change a user's password.

You'll want to look for "xymonpaswd" somewhere and check the contents for
a username and either change a password (for a generic, multi-use user)or
add a new user to do so (using the second command).

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You'd want to use the critical list for the first.

As to the second, you would use whatever you have defined in your apache config for xymon. By default, this file is xymon-apache.conf. and the password file is ~xymon/server/etc/xymonpasswd and ~xymon/server/etc/xymongroups.

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Shackelford, Ken
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 6:49 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Question about "all non-green view" and edit critical systems

Hello,

        I was wondering if there was a way to control which systems were summarized in the "all non-green view" window.
I'd like to use this as a sort of front end for our operations staff to monitor and don't need to have them calling about every
little thing.

        Also, I can't seem to find the correct user/pass to use when trying to run the "edit critical systems" or "acknowledge
alert" pages.  I'm running on Red Hat ES 5.9 and using Firefox for my browser.  Keeps saying the password is invalid. I've
tried the "xymon" account, "root" and even added a password to the "apache" account, but no success.  What is expected
here?

Thanks,
Ken


Ken Shackelford
Information Technology

Siemens Industry Sector
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
XXXX Eastman Drive
Milford, OH  XXXXX United States
Tel.      :+X (XXX) XXX-XXXX
Fax      :+X (XXX) XXX-XXXX
Mobile :+X (XXX) XXX-XXXX
user-bcfca0412b01@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-bcfca0412b01@xymon.invalid>
www.siemens.com/plm

On 10/9/2013 3:49 AM, Shackelford, Ken wrote:

There is a 'nonongreen' host option you can use in the hosts.cfg.
Taken from //localhost/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html

nonongreen
    Ignore this host on the "All non-green" page. Even if it has an active alert, it will not be included in the "All non-green" page. This also removes the host from the event-log display.

If you want to set this for many hosts, 'nonongreen' is an accepted 
argument on a .default. host line. Look up "Default Host" in that same 
doc file.
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