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Description: 

Xymon is the web based monitoring tool of choice for Administrators and staff supporting ITSO supporting  Windows and Unix processes on the Purdue Campus. It performs a valuable duty, giving the trained eye a quick overview of the hardware and processes that may be out of synch for several key University areas.

In general, IOC staff will only need to respond to Critical (Red) alerts that affect production devices (Servers, Virtual Machines, etc.) All production Xymon alerts should also be reflected in Grafana. Generally, if a critical production alert appears in Xymon for more than 20 minutes, a system administrator or equivalent will need to be contacted regarding their malfunctioning equipment. In the event of a hardware failure, contact the appropriate system owner ASAP. Each shift is responsible for learning their time of day’s appropriate contact procedures.

Location:

Xymon: All non-green systems -  Keep this link up on workstation.

Xymon: Top View Top level view that displays alerts by group. It is suggested that one create a sidebar for this view.

Categories include:

• ITIS Services – Production, Non-production, Pre-production machines and VMs for a number of systems such as Oracle, Banner, Blackboard/Brightspace, SAP. IOC Operators staff should only be concerned with devices nested within Production.
• Infrastructure – There are no devices exclusively within this category that Technical Operators IOC staff are required to monitor.
• Platform Support – Windows production and test boxes for applications. This category is in place for Windows administrators. There are no devices exclusively within this category that Technical Operators IOC Staff are required to monitor.

If there is no answer from the groups on call number, leave a voicemail. Call back again in 10 minutes. If there is no answer from the group by phone or email after this time, consult with your supervisor or on call supervisor., leave an voicemail message and send a follow-up email. Wait another 10 minutes and if there is no answer contact the next on-call contact or manager. If no contact from the group by phone or email after this time, consult with your supervisor or on call supervisor. 

Find the group owner of the system page by:

Going to Xymon.
Find the red production status indicator (pictured below), this should be red if there is an alarm.
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Click the red status indicator for the system affected.
Continue moving through the sub-menus until you find the page
If the page has special instructions at the top, make sure to follow these instructions when deciding if an admin should be contacted, and which admin should be contacted.
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5. If the system name is clickable, there will be special instructions. Follow those instructions

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These instructions are many times instructions about when NOT to call.
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6. Once step 4 is complete, find the system in the Footprints Change and Release management CMDB.

Search for the name of the system
Click on the related CI(s) link.
Click the bubble button CI’s to “Named server”
Click on the Managed by Relationship, and click “Go To”
The on call group information should be listed here.
7. Clickable links will appear underlined as pictured below.

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These instructions are many times instructions about when NOT to call. One example is below.
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6. If there is no information from the previous steps

Search the communication log for the alarming system.
Review past correspondence and determine who to call.
If the server starts with a “W” it is most likely the windows on call
If the server starts with an “L” it is most likely the unix on call.(Linux)
Consult with your coworkers.
Consult your supervisor, or on call supervisor.