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Xymon 4.3.10 released - bugfixes and inode checks

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list Henrik Størner · Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:58:52 +0200 ·
Hi,

looking for a fresh beginning of the week ? Or perhaps an easy job to get going after the summer holidays ?

Then upgrading to Xymon version 4.3.10 is just the thing for You. It is of course the best Xymon version ever released, and is just what you need to keep your systems happy. Grab it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.10/


The "killer feature" of this release is the addition (finally!) of inode-checking on all major platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX.

The build scripts have been vetted thoroughly, and Xymon 4.3.10 will build without any problems on Debian Linux, RHEL Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. If you run into problems, have a look at the new, detailed instructions on building Xymon on various platforms, available at http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems - it will tell you everything you need to know about what pre-requisites are required, and what special options you may need to configure.

And to prove it, you can now download pre-built versions of Xymon for most platforms directly from Sourceforge. There is also a demo-installation VM image available, if you'd like to try it out first.

(One note about the RPM-packages: They don't handle all issues automatically; you can use them, but some manual setup will probably be needed to fix SELinux issues and such. More advanced RPM-packages are available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/ although 4.3.10 isn't there yet).


Regards,
Henrik
list Ryan Novosielski · Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:30:13 -0400 ·
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quoted from Henrik Størner

On 08/06/2012 09:58 AM, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,

looking for a fresh beginning of the week ? Or perhaps an easy job
to get going after the summer holidays ?

Then upgrading to Xymon version 4.3.10 is just the thing for You.
It is of course the best Xymon version ever released, and is just
what you need to keep your systems happy. Grab it from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.10/

The "killer feature" of this release is the addition (finally!) of 
inode-checking on all major platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
OSX, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX.
Awesome, Henrik! The timing is interesting too -- last week, my test
Xymon server ran out of inodes (I had disabled the MTA and 482k
e-mails had stacked up in the clientmqueue) and I said to myself "why
am I not checking inodes?"

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list Japheth Cleaver · Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:42:41 -0700 (PDT) ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
(One note about the RPM-packages: They don't handle all issues
automatically; you can use them, but some manual setup will probably be
needed to fix SELinux issues and such. More advanced RPM-packages are
available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/ although 4.3.10 isn't
there yet).


Regards,
Henrik

4.3.10 builds of the Terabithia RPMs are now available :)

Regards,

-jc
list Roland Soderstrom · Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:30:44 +0000 ·
I just compiled xymon 4.3.10 Solaris 10 x86 32bit without any issues :D

But, there is an issue with make install, permissions/owners are wrong all over the place.
Xymonping is not suid, most files are 700 or 600 (my root umask is 0077)
/usr/local/xymon is 700 and owned by root, so nothing will work.
I manually set most of it to something that works, but setting all to 755 might not be the best solution, even if that should work.

I user-7993c4942266@xymon.invalid for comparison and it looks like that one needs some tweaking as well in terms of owners.
But as it is just a tar file you need a permission/owner script to change them I guess.

- Roland
quoted from Henrik Størner

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2012 11:59 PM
To: Xymon mailinglist
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.10 released - bugfixes and inode checks

Hi,

looking for a fresh beginning of the week ? Or perhaps an easy job to get going after the summer holidays ?

Then upgrading to Xymon version 4.3.10 is just the thing for You. It is of course the best Xymon version ever released, and is just what you need to keep your systems happy. Grab it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.10/


The "killer feature" of this release is the addition (finally!) of inode-checking on all major platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX, Solaris, HP/UX and AIX.

The build scripts have been vetted thoroughly, and Xymon 4.3.10 will build without any problems on Debian Linux, RHEL Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. If you run into problems, have a look at the new, detailed instructions on building Xymon on various platforms, available at http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems - it will tell you everything you need to know about what pre-requisites are required, and what special options you may need to configure.

And to prove it, you can now download pre-built versions of Xymon for most platforms directly from Sourceforge. There is also a demo-installation VM image available, if you'd like to try it out first.

(One note about the RPM-packages: They don't handle all issues automatically; you can use them, but some manual setup will probably be needed to fix SELinux issues and such. More advanced RPM-packages are available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/ although 4.3.10 isn't there yet).


Regards,
Henrik
list Andy Smith · Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:02:19 +0100 ·
Hi Henrik,

We have just successfully rolled 4.3.10 out to a number of Solaris servers
here, build went fine, but we have a modified xymonclient-sunos.sh which
plays better with the many zones we have configured, critically, it counts
memory properly inside a memory capped container.  I'd like to submit this
patch for consideration of the community for including in some future
release.

Thanks
-- 
Andy
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list Wilfrid Beauchaine · Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:04:34 +0200 ·
hi

a little mail to say that the upgrade 4.3.7 -> 4.3.10 works perfectly

thanks a lot Henrik

Wilfrid
quoted from Henrik Størner

Le 2012-08-06 15:58, Henrik Størner a écrit :
Hi,

looking for a fresh beginning of the week ? Or perhaps an easy job to
get going after the summer holidays ?

Then upgrading to Xymon version 4.3.10 is just the thing for You. It
is of course the best Xymon version ever released, and is just what
you need to keep your systems happy. Grab it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.10/


The "killer feature" of this release is the addition (finally!) of
inode-checking on all major platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX,
Solaris, HP/UX and AIX.

The build scripts have been vetted thoroughly, and Xymon 4.3.10 will
build without any problems on Debian Linux, RHEL Linux, Ubuntu Linux,
Fedora Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. If you run into problems,
have a look at the new, detailed instructions on building Xymon on
various platforms, available at
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems - it will
tell you everything you need to know about what pre-requisites are
required, and what special options you may need to configure.

And to prove it, you can now download pre-built versions of Xymon for
most platforms directly from Sourceforge. There is also a
demo-installation VM image available, if you'd like to try it out
first.

(One note about the RPM-packages: They don't handle all issues
automatically; you can use them, but some manual setup will probably
be needed to fix SELinux issues and such. More advanced RPM-packages
are available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/ although 4.3.10
isn't there yet).


Regards,
Henrik
list Betsy Schwartz · Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:48:37 -0400 ·
Will 4.3.10 client play completely nice with a 4.3.7 server?

 I am going to need to do some change control process to get the
server updated,  but can start doing clients if they'll work without
problems.
list Jeremy Laidman · Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:47:20 +1000 ·
On 5 September 2012 06:48, Betsy Schwartz <user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Will 4.3.10 client play completely nice with a 4.3.7 server?
If it helps, I've tested a 4.3.10 client with a 4.3.3 server with no
problems.
list Mark Wagner · Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:57:35 -0700 ·
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:48:37 -0400
quoted from Betsy Schwartz
Betsy Schwartz <user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Will 4.3.10 client play completely nice with a 4.3.7 server?
I can't say anything about "completely", but I've got a 4.3.10 client
playing nice with my 4.3.7 server.

-- 
Mark Wagner
list Francois Claire · Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:51:52 +0200 ·
Hi,


Xymon 4.3.10 is now also available on Mac OSX through the macports:
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=xymon

I took this opportunity to rename the packages names. They're now "xymon-client" and "xymon-server" to avoid any confusion.


Thanks a lot Henrik for this great release where inode check and disk check is working good also on OSX. Another good news is the rrd graph generation is now very fast (no clue why...).


Enjoy!
list Johan Sjöberg · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:55:44 +0000 ·
Hi

I wanted to upgrade the client on a Debian (Squeeze) machine, to get inode monitoring. I uninstalled the official xymon-client package, and installed the deb package from sourceforge. It seems like there is some problem with config files, or the parsing of them. I set the xymon servers setting during the packages installation, and this was correctly set in /etc/default/xymon-client, but when I started the client using the "/debian/xymon-client.init" from the source tarball (shouldn't this init script be included in the deb?), the client just tries to connect to itself. After manually setting the XYMSRV variable to 0.0.0.0 and the XYMSERVRS variable to the correct servers, in /etc/xymon/xymonclient.cfg, the client is able to report to the servers.
Shouldn't it be enough to just set the servers during install (or in /etc/default/xymon-client), or am I doing something wrong? Another thing that I was curious about is how the files in /var/run/xymon are generated, and what their purpose is.

/Johan
quoted from Roland Soderstrom
-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com]
On Behalf Of Henrik Størner

Sent: den 6 augusti 2012 15:59
quoted from Wilfrid Beauchaine
To: Xymon mailinglist
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.10 released - bugfixes and inode checks

Hi,

looking for a fresh beginning of the week ? Or perhaps an easy job to get
going after the summer holidays ?

Then upgrading to Xymon version 4.3.10 is just the thing for You. It is of
course the best Xymon version ever released, and is just what you need to
keep your systems happy. Grab it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.10/


The "killer feature" of this release is the addition (finally!) of inode-
checking on all major platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX, Solaris,
quoted from Wilfrid Beauchaine
HP/UX and AIX.

The build scripts have been vetted thoroughly, and Xymon 4.3.10 will build
without any problems on Debian Linux, RHEL Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora
Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. If you run into problems, have a look
at the new, detailed instructions on building Xymon on various platforms,
available at
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/install.html#commonsystems - it will
tell you everything you need to know about what pre-requisites are
required, and what special options you may need to configure.

And to prove it, you can now download pre-built versions of Xymon for
most platforms directly from Sourceforge. There is also a demo-installation
VM image available, if you'd like to try it out first.

(One note about the RPM-packages: They don't handle all issues
automatically; you can use them, but some manual setup will probably be
needed to fix SELinux issues and such. More advanced RPM-packages are
available at http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/ although 4.3.10 isn't there
yet).


Regards,
Henrik
list Benjamin Boudoir · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:35:28 +0200 ·
quoted from Johan Sjöberg
Le mardi 16 octobre 2012 14:55:44, Johan Sjöberg a écrit :
Hi

I wanted to upgrade the client on a Debian (Squeeze) machine, to get inode
monitoring. I uninstalled the official xymon-client package, and installed
the deb package from sourceforge. It seems like there is some problem with
config files, or the parsing of them. I set the xymon servers setting
during the packages installation, and this was correctly set in
/etc/default/xymon-client, but when I started the client using the
"/debian/xymon-client.init" from the source tarball (shouldn't this init
script be included in the deb?), the client just tries to connect to
itself. After manually setting the XYMSRV variable to 0.0.0.0 and the
XYMSERVRS variable to the correct servers, in /etc/xymon/xymonclient.cfg,
the client is able to report to the servers. Shouldn't it be enough to
just set the servers during install (or in /etc/default/xymon-client), or
am I doing something wrong? Another thing that I was curious about is how
the files in /var/run/xymon are generated, and what their purpose is.

/Johan
This will not respond to you're actual problem, but if you're only interested 
in inode monitoring, you can make an external script. I made a simple client 
bash* script to do it (see attachment).

* column and sed are only used to make the output eye-candy

-- 
Benjamin Boudoir
meltyNetwork / Eeple
Administrateur Système