Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows? 🔗 link

Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

-- 
Tom			user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
	DISK   C   85   90
	DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are reflected by xymon.)

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if
they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
      DISK   C   85   90
      DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are
reflected by xymon.)

Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the
windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as
red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less
than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in
the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those
disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy
but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

Von: David Boyer <user-a6c09f28d9d2@xymon.invalid>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. April 2022 22:04
An: user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Cc: Becker Christian <user-e4a19bfb94c0@xymon.invalid>; xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: Re: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
      DISK   C   85   90
      DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are reflected by xymon.)

Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:

     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Boyer wrote:

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if
they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
      DISK   C   85   90
      DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are
reflected by xymon.)

Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the
windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as
red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less
than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in
the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those
disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy
but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 1:54 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi,

Resending this as I sent it from the wrong address and figured it would get
moderated.

Sorry for the duplicate message.


On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Boyer wrote:

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

That sounds like a great idea, however I cannot for the life of me get
Xymon
to see any files. The msgs column just stays clear.

I have added the following to client-local.cfg:
[host=fs1.mydomain.com]
file:D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt

as well as "FILE D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt" to analysis.cfg file.

I also see the following in the powershell client log:
2022-04-28 12:57:38.030  Connecting to host XX.XX.XX.178
2022-04-28 12:57:38.061  Sent 112 bytes to server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  Received 0 bytes from server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  XymonProcessRuntimeCheck finished

Based on the above it looks like the Xymon server is not sending the
client-local
data to the client. Is there something I need to do to get Xymon to send
the
client-local data to the client or am I missing something else?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even
if
they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
      DISK   C   85   90
      DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they
are
reflected by xymon.)

Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on
the
windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this
disk as
red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is
less
than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed
in
the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of
those
disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was
happy
but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Timothy Williams wrote:

First, make sure the xymonclient_config.xml contains the
line <clientremotecfgexec>1</clientremotecfgexec> to tell the script to get
the remote config file from Xymon server.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 1:54 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi,

Resending this as I sent it from the wrong address and figured it would get
moderated.

Sorry for the duplicate message.


On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Boyer wrote:

Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

That sounds like a great idea, however I cannot for the life of me get
Xymon
to see any files. The msgs column just stays clear.

I have added the following to client-local.cfg:
[host=fs1.mydomain.com]
file:D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt

as well as "FILE D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt" to analysis.cfg file.

I also see the following in the powershell client log:
2022-04-28 12:57:38.030  Connecting to host XX.XX.XX.178
2022-04-28 12:57:38.061  Sent 112 bytes to server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  Received 0 bytes from server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  XymonProcessRuntimeCheck finished

Based on the above it looks like the Xymon server is not sending the
client-local
data to the client. Is there something I need to do to get Xymon to send
the
client-local data to the client or am I missing something else?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Dave

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:

Tom,


the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even
if
they already show up in the disk section.

Example:

HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
      DISK   C   85   90
      DISK   D   55   70

(Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they
are
reflected by xymon.)

Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on
the
windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this
disk as
red in the disk section.

I cannot get the above to work.

I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
     DISK C 90 95
     DISK D 93 95
This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.

To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is
less
than
the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
     DISK z 93 95
What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
ignored
as it does not exist.

I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,

--
Tom                     user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid

Regards and good luck!
Christian


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Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?

Hi,

Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
server?

I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed
in
the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of
those
disks is missing?

We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was
happy
but the users were not.

My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.

Regards,