[Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
list James
Hi guys, I'm very new to this Xymon-land, spent some time to install and configure Xymon on my virtual machine runs CentOS 6.3 Here's my thought, since I have very limited skill in this monitoring field, my target is only to have a program which can test the 'ping' only. Is that doable if I can use Xymon and disable some of the functions? Has anyone ever think about this before? Maybe some hint or guides, thanks! Btw, I'm working on this as my school project, hopefully I didn't break/offend anyone's work and copyright, if so, please let me know. Many thanks :D -- Best, James
list Jeremy Laidman
Yes, that's the default for any device listed in hosts.cfg (with name and IP address) that doesn't run a Xymon client. But why would you want to give up visibility of all other functionality that your devices provide?
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On 27 November 2012 11:28, James <user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi guys, I'm very new to this Xymon-land, spent some time to install and configure Xymon on my virtual machine runs CentOS 6.3 Here's my thought, since I have very limited skill in this monitoring field, my target is only to have a program which can test the 'ping' only. Is that doable if I can use Xymon and disable some of the functions? Has anyone ever think about this before? Maybe some hint or guides, thanks! Btw, I'm working on this as my school project, hopefully I didn't break/offend anyone's work and copyright, if so, please let me know. Many thanks :D -- Best, James
list Ryan Novosielski
I don't think you need to do anything special to make this happen, just only define the "conn" test which is on by default (so your hosts.cfg will really just have hostnames).
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From: James [mailto:user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 07:28 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
Hi guys,
I'm very new to this Xymon-land, spent some time to install and configure Xymon on my virtual machine runs CentOS 6.3
Here's my thought, since I have very limited skill in this monitoring field, my target is only to have a program which can test the 'ping' only.
Is that doable if I can use Xymon and disable some of the functions?
Has anyone ever think about this before? Maybe some hint or guides, thanks!
Btw, I'm working on this as my school project, hopefully I didn't break/offend anyone's work and copyright, if so, please let me know.
Many thanks :D
--
Best,
James
list James
Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that. The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code. I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the best case is to make some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon and turn it in as my project. My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder) Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be greatly appreciated! Thanks again! James
list Josh Luthman
Xymon seems like a LOT of overhead for a simple ping test.
What about something like bash?
while true; do
until ping -c1 -W2 192.168.1.1 &>/dev/null; do
sleep 3
done
echo "ping success"
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM, James <user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that. The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code. I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the best case is to make some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon and turn it in as my project. My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder) Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be greatly appreciated! Thanks again! James
list Martin Ward
I guess the problem is James wants the web display as well, though I agree it seems like a huge amount of effort to strip out all the things you don't need just to get the things that you want. @James, since you are looking at the code for Xymon you probably understand C. I would suggest, without doing the project for you, that you use the basic xymonping.c code for the networking stuff and write your own HTML provider. It can be as simple as something that generate new HTML pages every 5 minutes and uses Apache as the web server... |\/| -- Martin Ward Manager, Technical Services Service Operations DDI:+44 (0) 20 7863 5218 / Fax: +XX (X)XX XXXX XXXX / www.colt.net<http://www.colt.net/>; Colt Technology Services, Unit XX, Powergate Business Park, Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London, NW10 6PW, UK. Help reduce your carbon footprint | Think before you print. Registered in England and Wales, registered number 02452736, VAT number GB 645 4205 50
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: 27 November 2012 02:55
To: James
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
Xymon seems like a LOT of overhead for a simple ping test.
What about something like bash?
while true; do
until ping -c1 -W2 192.168.1.1 &>/dev/null; do
sleep 3
done
echo "ping success"
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM, James <user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that.
The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project
which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code.
I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the best case is to make
some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon and turn it in as my project.
My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and
style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)
Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again!
James
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list Betsy Schwartz
One of my favorite professors ever told us that if he caught us writing code that duplicated something available on the net, we would fail, because out in the real world you never want to waste your employer's time re-inventing the wheel. Putting on my former-CS-lab-manager hat, I'd say: think about what you're trying to learn and what your professor wants you to show. Are you working on network programming, or web app programming, or using a framework, or is this part of a bigger project or what? Xymon has a lot of pieces because it was designed to monitor multiple sorts of sources and do multiple sorts of notification. In my own life I've learned the hard way that it's almost always easier to write what you need and take * bits and pieces* of code that can help, rather than trying to strip something complex down to bits and pieces. Invariably, things break and you end up going down ratholes trying to fix problems in parts of the code that you don't understand and don't need. Xymon has a *lot* of pieces. Here's an analogy: if you're given the assignment of building a rowboat, don't try to build one by taking a tugboat and removing all the extra pieces. You'll probably end up with something that is the wrong size and won't float.
list James
Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point. My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality. Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need? Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider? Betsy, Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code) But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program. Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent. James
list Roland Soderstrom
I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping. Configure Apache2 as a webserver. Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup. Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want, you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn) That is a fairly basic and simple solution. Even if all that other code is there it is not really used. 4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req) - Roland
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of James
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM
To: user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid; user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.
My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program
which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.
Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?
Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?
Betsy,
Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code
of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely
did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)
But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet
our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.
Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.
James
list James
Thanks for the reply, Roland, What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a while to get a good understanding. What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then "Xymonserver.cfg" One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client side, right? Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D James 2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <user-0cec9512a49f@xymon.invalid>
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I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.**** Configure Apache2 as a webserver.**** Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.**** Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want, you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn)**** That is a fairly basic and simple solution.**** Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.**** ** ** 4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req)**** ** ** **- **Roland**** ** ** *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *James *Sent:* Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM *To:* user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid; user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?**** ** ** Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.**** My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program**** which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.**** ** ** Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?**** Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?**** ** ** Betsy,**** Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code **** of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely**** did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)**** But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet**** our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.**** Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.**** ** ** James**** ** **
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Best,
James
list Ryan Novosielski
Yes, client is only software meant to run on the client and send back local stats to the server. Even on a regular install, it's not required for every host.
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From: James [mailto:user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:57 PM
To: Roland Soderstrom <user-0cec9512a49f@xymon.invalid>
Cc: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
Thanks for the reply, Roland,
What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a while to get a good understanding.
What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then "Xymonserver.cfg"
One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client side, right?
Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D
James
2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <user-0cec9512a49f@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-0cec9512a49f@xymon.invalid>>
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I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.
Configure Apache2 as a webserver.
Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.
Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want, you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn)
That is a fairly basic and simple solution.
Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.
4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req)
- Roland
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of James
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM
To: user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid>; user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid>
Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.
My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program
which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.
Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?
Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?
Betsy,
Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code
of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely
did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)
But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet
our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.
Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.
James
--
Best,
James
list Henrik Størner
Hi James,
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:44:48 -0800, James <user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid> wrote:The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code.
[snip]
My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)
I think those are somewhat conflicting goals; keeping a Xymon style "framework" will require more work than what is really necessary for a "small class project". My guess is that the primary focus of your project is to show that you understand some network programming, rather than prove that you understand the details of Xymon - although I would be personally flattered if Xymon became mandatory teaching :-) My advice to you would be: Is it a requirement to use ping as the network test, or could you use a TCP connection as the network test ? ping is a bit complicated, because the normal network programming API's don't support it directly - you have to more or less construct the contents of each packet yourself. The socket API in Unix (or Winsock on Windows) have much better support for a normal transport-layer protocol - TCP - so that would allow you to show that you understand network programming, rather then getting bogged down with the details of ICMP packet request/response formats. If you are allowed to use normal TCP connections for your network test, try writing some code using the Unix socket API and non-blocking sockets. I.e. you need to use the socket(), connect(), select(), read(), write() and close() API's - plus the various little details of getting all the data structures setup correctly. There must be lots of sample code for this - not least the "select_tut(2)" man-page in Linux - but for Xymon code look at lib/sendmsg.c the "sendtoxymond()" routine, or xymonnet/contest.c file "do_tcp_tests()". The first one is good to understand the basics, because it does one connection at a time; the xymonnet/contest.c code is a bit more complicated, because it juggles multiple connections at once. With TCP, you can use a connection to e.g. port 80 (web) or some other port - possibly something user-configurable on a per-host basis. If you must use ping, then xymonping.c borrows heavily from fping, so have a look at that code as well. Once you know how to check if you can connect/ping a host, then you can decide what the configuration file should be like, and how the test results can be reported. If you want something "xymon-like", then perhaps you can just generate a simple webpage listing the test result, so it gets updated whenever your test-program runs. Regards, Henrik PS: I know this does go a bit off-topic for the Xymon list, but we've all had to learn things at some point. So I'm just trying to guide the newbies in the right direction :-)
list Xymon User in Richmond
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On Mon, December 3, 2012 07:18, user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid wrote:
PS: I know this does go a bit off-topic for the Xymon list, but we've all had to learn things at some point. So I'm just trying to guide the newbies in the right direction :-)
It was a wonderful response. I'm proud to be associated with you, however loosely.
list James
Hi Henrik, Got midterms these days, so it's a little bit late to reply this post. By the way, it's my great, great honor to get your reply :P
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*"My guess is that the primary focus of your project is to show that you*
*understand some network programming, rather than prove that you understand
the details of Xymon - although I would be personally flattered if Xymon
became mandatory teaching :-)"*
• *
For the part regarding project goal:
It is very true that the purpose of our class project is to demonstrate
that we have some kind of network programming skill,
but if we can demonstrate a very good understanding on Xymon will also be
considered as good project.
Based on my personal opinion, Xymon is capable to perform many tests and
it's not just several files of code, thus, it may take me months to
understand the whole thing.
Hence, I was thinking about to show a good understanding regarding a
part(or function) of Xymon (ping, in this case, is just my idea)
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*"Is it a requirement to use ping as the network test, or could you use a
TCP connection as the network test ? ping is a bit complicated, because the
normal network programming API's don't support it directly - you have to
more or less construct the contents of each packet yourself. The socket API
in Unix (or Winsock on Windows) have much better support for a normal
transport-layer protocol - TCP - so that would allow you to show that you
understand network programming, rather then getting bogged down with the
details of ICMP packet request/response formats."*
Since you mentioned ping test is more complicated, while TCP is easier to
perform,
I will definitely ask my professor on next class meeting. Since this class
project is just to show we have certain
network programming and we are all newbies to this field, I guess the
chance to do TCP connection test is very high.
By the way, it takes time for me to digest your code-writing suggestions,
but I really appreciate that suggestion because it points
out a direction that I can work on. I was like a blind without your
suggestion. I wonder is that okay if I send you some e-mail regarding
network programming questions? I afraid the content may be too easy and not
related to this mailing list.
Last but not least, as I'm working on this project, I will keep everyone
whoever interested posted,
who knows maybe someone will be asked to do the same/similar project like
us.
Thanks again, Henrik, my classmate won't believe who I got reply from.
Best,
James
2012/12/3 <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
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Hi James, On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:44:48 -0800, James <user-62138871fbd6@xymon.invalid> wrote:The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code.[snip]My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)I think those are somewhat conflicting goals; keeping a Xymon style "framework" will require more work than what is really necessary for a "small class project". My guess is that the primary focus of your project is to show that you understand some network programming, rather than prove that you understand the details of Xymon - although I would be personally flattered if Xymon became mandatory teaching :-) My advice to you would be: Is it a requirement to use ping as the network test, or could you use a TCP connection as the network test ? ping is a bit complicated, because the normal network programming API's don't support it directly - you have to more or less construct the contents of each packet yourself. The socket API in Unix (or Winsock on Windows) have much better support for a normal transport-layer protocol - TCP - so that would allow you to show that you understand network programming, rather then getting bogged down with the details of ICMP packet request/response formats. If you are allowed to use normal TCP connections for your network test, try writing some code using the Unix socket API and non-blocking sockets. I.e. you need to use the socket(), connect(), select(), read(), write() and close() API's - plus the various little details of getting all the data structures setup correctly. There must be lots of sample code for this - not least the "select_tut(2)" man-page in Linux - but for Xymon code look at lib/sendmsg.c the "sendtoxymond()" routine, or xymonnet/contest.c file "do_tcp_tests()". The first one is good to understand the basics, because it does one connection at a time; the xymonnet/contest.c code is a bit more complicated, because it juggles multiple connections at once. With TCP, you can use a connection to e.g. port 80 (web) or some other port - possibly something user-configurable on a per-host basis. If you must use ping, then xymonping.c borrows heavily from fping, so have a look at that code as well. Once you know how to check if you can connect/ping a host, then you can decide what the configuration file should be like, and how the test results can be reported. If you want something "xymon-like", then perhaps you can just generate a simple webpage listing the test result, so it gets updated whenever your test-program runs. Regards, Henrik PS: I know this does go a bit off-topic for the Xymon list, but we've all had to learn things at some point. So I'm just trying to guide the newbies in the right direction :-)
--
Best,
James
list Matthew Harris
I am very new to linux and xymon is my first project, can anyone help me add a test to test the clusters we are monitoring? I am very new, I have only really touched the hosts.cfg and the analysis.cfg to add the infrastructure and a few services to be monitored on the servers we have set up. I have installed roughly 600 xymon clients manually, we have no method that we are allowed to use to push them. Now I just need to customize the monitoring more for our environment. I also need to figure out how to make a test that will monitor the Microsoft Message Queuing, I have no clue on how I will do that. Can anyone help me out, I need some specific instructions to work with, I am doing my best to set this up with very little knowledge on linux. Thanks in advance!!! Matthew Harris Datacenter Ops O | +X XXX.XXX.XXXX C | +X XXX.XXX.XXXX F | +X XXX.XXX.XXXX user-45a831e25f8a@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-45a831e25f8a@xymon.invalid> www.air-watch.com<http://www.air-watch.com/>; [Description: Description: Description: cid:3420106421_29290231] This communication is confidential and is intended to be privileged pursuant to applicable law. If you are not a designated recipient of this message, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this message or its attachments. Notify the sender by replying to this message and delete or destroy all copies of this message and attachments in all media. Thank you.
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Welcome to the lists Matthew. If you can tell us what Operating systems you are running the clients on and what kind of clusters you are monitoring we'll hopefully be able to help. Regards, Neil. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of user-45a831e25f8a@xymon.invalid Sent: 09 January 2013 15:09 To: xymon at xymon.com
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?
I am very new to linux and xymon is my first project, can anyone help me
add a test to test the clusters we are monitoring? I am very new, I
have only really touched the hosts.cfg and the analysis.cfg to add the
infrastructure and a few services to be monitored on the servers we have
set up. I have installed roughly 600 xymon clients manually, we have no
method that we are allowed to use to push them. Now I just need to
customize the monitoring more for our environment. I also need to
figure out how to make a test that will monitor the Microsoft Message
Queuing, I have no clue on how I will do that. Can anyone help me out,
I need some specific instructions to work with, I am doing my best to
set this up with very little knowledge on linux. Thanks in advance!!!
Matthew Harris
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For the MMQ monitoring, I'd start by looking at the BB extension archive. http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother I didn't take the time to look, but there may be extensions that you can download that will monitor MMQ. If not, you will need to write a custom script. Details on this are in the Xymon help section under "Tips and Tricks" "How can I create a custom test script". From a high level, you will need to write a script that utilizes tools through MMQ to collect the data you are looking to monitor. Then add the details to execute, log, etc... to clientlaunch.cfg. In response to your 600 installed clients. Xymon has its own utility that makes it fairly simple to make changes to one client and automatically push the changes out to all (or any) client. The utility is called "clientupdate". Details about this utility can be found in the xymon man-pages.
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On 01/09/2013 10:08 AM, user-45a831e25f8a@xymon.invalid wrote:I am very new to linux and xymon is my first project, can anyone help me add a test to test the clusters we are monitoring? I am very new, I have only really touched the hosts.cfg and the analysis.cfg to add the infrastructure and a few services to be monitored on the servers we have set up. I have installed roughly 600 xymon clients manually, we have no method that we are allowed to use to push them. Now I just need to customize the monitoring more for our environment. I also need to figure out how to make a test that will monitor the Microsoft Message Queuing, I have no clue on how I will do that. Can anyone help me out, I need some specific instructions to work with, I am doing my best to set this up with very little knowledge on linux. Thanks in advance!!! Matthew Harris Datacenter Ops O | +X XXX.XXX.XXXX C| +X XXX.XXX.XXXX F| +X XXX.XXX.XXXX
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