TS - Disabled and cannot Enable it 🔗 link

On 04/06/2011 07:30 PM, user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid wrote:

I have printer:  Printer143

 
It is disabled and was done so using the command: 
                $BB $BBDISP "disable ${HOST}.* -1 offline"    to allow a
‘ping’ to enable it

It is BLUE and querying it shows that it is BLUE:

                /home/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "query Printer142.conn"

               blue <!-- [flags:OrdAsTLe] --> Wed Apr  6 10:58:39 2011
conn ok

If you go to the ‘conn’ web page for Printer142, it shows:

                BLUE boarder and BLUE ICON but under history, it shows:

                GREEN diamond IP-of-Printer is alive (0.57 ms)

               
The device answers a ‘ping’.

 
I when into ADMINISTATION:  Enable/Disable and enabled the Printer.

There are no devices left to Enable.

I stopped and restarted Xymon also.

 
I tried to ‘enable’ the Printer with:

                /home/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "enable Printer142.conn"

                Multiple times

But the device still shows BLUE/DISABLED.

 
I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 and have been for over a year and have
not experienced this problem.

I monitor multiple printers in multiple buildings and this is happening
to 14 out of 28 Printers.

 
Is there a way to get these devices ENABLED again short of removing and
loading them again?

 
*/Thanks,/*

*/ /*

*/Tom Schmitt/*

/Senior IT Staff - R&D/

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West

P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX

On 04/06/2011 02:28 PM, Taylor Lewick wrote:

Hi all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we?ve noticed when doing
maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot  that occasionally (seldom) on
restart one or more of the memory modules in a given host isn?t
detected.  Sometimes it requires reseating the memory, sometimes just a
reboot, sometimes the memory is bad.  Thus we have a need to write a
script that will check the amount of memory each host sees, and send an
email/alert if its below a given amount.

 
So I thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you get for
free.  A large percentage of our hosts >60% have exactly 6 GB of memory,
but a large percentage does not.  So I was wondering if there is a way
to make use of the hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could set alert
thresholds for a new external script.

 
The default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0 GB of
memory is detected, but I could set custom alerts for given hosts that
have more or less than this amount.

 
I don?t believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in this way,
but wanted to check with the list and hope I?m wrong.

 
Thanks,

Taylor

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Hi all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we’ve noticed when doing
maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot  that occasionally (seldom)
on restart one or more of the memory modules in a given host isn’t
detected.  Sometimes it requires reseating the memory, sometimes just
a reboot, sometimes the memory is bad.  Thus we have a need to write a
script that will check the amount of memory each host sees, and send
an email/alert if its below a given amount.

 
So I thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you get for
free.  A large percentage of our hosts >60% have exactly 6 GB of
memory, but a large percentage does not.  So I was wondering if there
is a way to make use of the hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could
set alert thresholds for a new external script.

 

The default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0 GB of
memory is detected, but I could set custom alerts for given hosts that
have more or less than this amount.

 
I don’t believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in this
way, but wanted to check with the list and hope I’m wrong.

<user-ccbabb0b3ab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we've noticed when doing

maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot  that occasionally (seldom)
on 
restart one or more of the memory modules in a given host isn't
detected.  
Sometimes it requires reseating the memory, sometimes just a reboot,

sometimes the memory is bad.  Thus we have a need to write a script
that will 
check the amount of memory each host sees, and send an email/alert if
its 
below a given amount.

So I thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you get
for free. 
 A large percentage of our hosts >60% have exactly 6 GB of memory,
but a large 
percentage does not.  So I was wondering if there is a way to make
use of the 
hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could set alert thresholds for a
new 
external script.

The default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0 GB of
memory 
is detected, but I could set custom alerts for given hosts that have
more or 
less than this amount.

I don't believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in this
way, but 
wanted to check with the list and hope I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Taylor

Hi Taylor,

I'm new at xymon and am also looking at using the client data.

I found the xymon command itself lets you query current status:

# /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog
hostname.domain.com.memory"

hostname.domain.com|memory|green||1301551188|1302151594|1302153394|0|0|10.10.10.1|-1|||Y|
green Thu Apr  7 14:46:28 EST 2011 - Memory OK
   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
&green Physical           9905M      11881M         83%
&green Actual              514M      11881M          4%
&green Swap                  0M      10239M          0%

The above was run on the xymon server, hence the localhost address. It
appears to display the current service status page (on the webserver) in
text. So it would be pretty easy to parse out the physical memory and
compare that with a value you set in the script itself. 

cheers.

On 4/7/2011 at 3:58 AM, in message

<user-6f828fd568be@xymon.invalid>,
Taylor Lewick
<user-ccbabb0b3ab0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we've noticed when doing
maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot  that occasionally (seldom)
on 
restart one or more of the memory modules in a given host isn't
detected.  
Sometimes it requires reseating the memory, sometimes just a reboot,
sometimes the memory is bad.  Thus we have a need to write a script
that will 
check the amount of memory each host sees, and send an email/alert if
its 
below a given amount.

So I thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you get
for free. 
 A large percentage of our hosts >60% have exactly 6 GB of memory,
but a large 
percentage does not.  So I was wondering if there is a way to make
use of the 
hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could set alert thresholds for a
new 
external script.

The default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0 GB of
memory 
is detected, but I could set custom alerts for given hosts that have
more or 
less than this amount.

I don't believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in this
way, but 
wanted to check with the list and hope I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Taylor

-- 
David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617


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I have printer: Printer143

It is disabled and was done so using the command:

$BB $BBDISP "disable ${HOST}.* -1 offline" to allow a ‘ping’ to enable it

It is BLUE and querying it shows that it is BLUE:

/home/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "query Printer142.conn"

blue <!-- [flags:OrdAsTLe] --> Wed Apr 6 10:58:39 2011 conn ok

If you go to the ‘conn’ web page for Printer142, it shows:

BLUE boarder and BLUE ICON but under history, it shows:

GREEN diamond IP-of-Printer is alive (0.57 ms)

I when into ADMINISTATION: Enable/Disable and enabled the Printer.

There are no devices left to Enable.

Is there a way to get these devices ENABLED again short of removing and
loading them again?

Phil,

Hi Taylor,

I'm new at xymon and am also looking at using the client data.

I found the xymon command itself lets you query current status:

# /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog
hostname.domain.com.memory"

hostname.domain.com|memory|green||1301551188|1302151594|1302153394|0|0|10.10.10.1|-1|||Y|

green Thu Apr  7 14:46:28 EST 2011 - Memory OK
   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
&green Physical           9905M      11881M         83%
&green Actual              514M      11881M          4%
&green Swap                  0M      10239M          0%

The above was run on the xymon server, hence the localhost address. It
appears to display the current service status page (on the webserver)
in
text. So it would be pretty easy to parse out the physical memory and
compare that with a value you set in the script itself. 

That gets you the status page which is what the server creates after
it's processed the client message it receives.

You can get the client section directly doing:

# /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "clientlog
hostname.domain.com section=memory"
[memory]
memory    Total    Used
physical: 2047 1020
virtual: 2046 890
page: 3948 1731


David.

cheers.

On 4/7/2011 at 3:58 AM, in message

<user-6f828fd568be@xymon.invalid>,
Taylor Lewick
 wrote:

Hi all, we manage several hundred hosts, and we've noticed when doing
maintenance that requires shutdown/reboot  that occasionally (seldom)
on 
restart one or more of the memory modules in a given host isn't
detected.  
Sometimes it requires reseating the memory, sometimes just a reboot,
sometimes the memory is bad.  Thus we have a need to write a script
that will 
check the amount of memory each host sees, and send an email/alert if
its 
below a given amount.

So I thought why not make use of xymon and the memory test you get
for free. 
 A large percentage of our hosts >60% have exactly 6 GB of memory,
but a large 
percentage does not.  So I was wondering if there is a way to make
use of the 
hobbit-clients.cfg script where I could set alert thresholds for a
new 
external script.

The default value for any host would be alert if less than 6.0 GB of
memory 
is detected, but I could set custom alerts for given hosts that have
more or 
less than this amount.

I don't believe its possible to use hobbit-client.cfg file in this
way, but 
wanted to check with the list and hope I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Taylor

-- 
David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617


Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit
http://www.ausport.gov.au

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Taylor Lewick wrote:

After my next upgrade to xymon (using xymon 4.3.0-0-beta2) looks like I'll need to use xymondlog instead of hobbitdlog