Installing RetDS for bind statistics graphing 🔗 link

Josh Luthman wrote:

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds

Has anyone installed this recently?  I went through the instructions but I think my first snag is the lack of SSH to grab the named.stats file.  Watching tcpdump on the client I get no 22/tcp traffic from the Xymon server.

My host entry (IP host and user changed):

I do have an SSH trust but it's not getting that far, Xymon isn't attempting to SSH at all.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:41 PM, William Pechter <user-01a56b68d7d6@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Josh Luthman wrote:

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds

Has anyone installed this recently?  I went through the instructions but
I think my first snag is the lack of SSH to grab the named.stats file.
Watching tcpdump on the client I get no 22/tcp traffic from the Xymon
server.

My host entry (IP host and user changed):
192.168.1.100 foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com <
http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>; # dns RNAMED:"cmd(ssh -T username@%{H}
2>/dev/null),statsfile(named.stats)" TRENDS:*,bindstats

I do have an SSH trust but it's not getting that far, Xymon isn't
attempting to SSH at all.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

First thought is to try to do the ssh command in the scripts manually as
the Xymon user and see if it's wanting to update the known_hosts or
waiting for someone to accept the remote key... etc.

I know it's kind of an obvious thing and you might have checked it but
I've seen fun with ssh scripts like that which timeout waiting for user
intervention.
After a manual run it's good to go for the rest of the life or until
modified.

Bill

--
Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:34 AM, W.J.M. Nelis <user-6956df205d63@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The script itself doesn't have SSH commands to my knowledge.  The one SSH
command is in hosts.cfg and that's just to pull named.stats.

Correct. The script takes the command as specified, replaces the the
substitutable parameters by their values, executes the resulting command
and catches the resulting standard output.

I did test this in (Xymon user)'s shell, it worked as expected.  I could
also grab the named.stats file.

So, manually it works but when invoked from the script it does not? Are
there any messages in the logfile?

Regards,
  Wim Nelis.


On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:41 PM, William Pechter <user-01a56b68d7d6@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

Josh Luthman wrote:

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds

Has anyone installed this recently?  I went through the instructions but
I think my first snag is the lack of SSH to grab the named.stats file.
Watching tcpdump on the client I get no 22/tcp traffic from the Xymon
server.

My host entry (IP host and user changed):
192.168.1.100 foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com <
http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>; # dns RNAMED:"cmd(ssh -T username@%{H}
2>/dev/null),statsfile(named.stats)" TRENDS:*,bindstats

I do have an SSH trust but it's not getting that far, Xymon isn't
attempting to SSH at all.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

First thought is to try to do the ssh command in the scripts manually as
the Xymon user and see if it's wanting to update the known_hosts or
waiting for someone to accept the remote key... etc.

I know it's kind of an obvious thing and you might have checked it but
I've seen fun with ssh scripts like that which timeout waiting for user
intervention.
After a manual run it's good to go for the rest of the life or until
modified.

Bill

--
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pechter-at-gmail.com http://xkcd.com/705/

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On 9/22/2016 10:40 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:

The log was empty...I think the log dir variable was wrong somehow.

Now that there is a log:
Can't locate Time/Piece.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) 

Whoops.  Installed (CentOS) with
$yum install perl-Time-Piece


Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:34 AM, W.J.M. Nelis <user-6956df205d63@xymon.invalid 
<mailto:user-6956df205d63@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    The script itself doesn't have SSH commands to my knowledge.  The
    one SSH command is in hosts.cfg and that's just to pull named.stats.

    Correct. The script takes the command as specified, replaces the
    the substitutable parameters by their values, executes the
    resulting command and catches the resulting standard output.

    I did test this in (Xymon user)'s shell, it worked as expected. 
    I could also grab the named.stats file.

    So, manually it works but when invoked from the script it does
    not? Are there any messages in the logfile?

    Regards,
      Wim Nelis.

    On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:41 PM, William Pechter
    <user-01a56b68d7d6@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-01a56b68d7d6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

        Josh Luthman wrote:

            <https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds>;

            Has anyone installed this recently?  I went through the
            instructions but I think my first snag is the lack of SSH
            to grab the named.stats file.  Watching tcpdump on the
            client I get no 22/tcp traffic from the Xymon server.

            My host entry (IP host and user changed):
            192.168.1.100 foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com
            <http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>;

            <http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>>; # dns
            RNAMED:"cmd(ssh -T username@%{H}
            2>/dev/null),statsfile(named.stats)" TRENDS:*,bindstats

            I do have an SSH trust but it's not getting that far,
            Xymon isn't attempting to SSH at all.

            Josh Luthman

            XXXX Wayne St
            Suite XXXX
            Troy, OH XXXXX


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        First thought is to try to do the ssh command in the scripts
        manually as the Xymon user and see if it's wanting to update
        the known_hosts or
        waiting for someone to accept the remote key... etc.

        I know it's kind of an obvious thing and you might have
        checked it but I've seen fun with ssh scripts like that which
        timeout waiting for user intervention.
        After a manual run it's good to go for the rest of the life
        or until modified.

        Bill

        -- 
        Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!

        http://xkcd.com/705/

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