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
-----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
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