On Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:13:36 user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid wrote:
I have installed Hobbit on a Dell R-610 on CentOS 5.4.
I have installed Net:SNMP so that I can query a MIB.
I am looking for a good setup guide/HOW-TO to integrate a test to
controlling an ICON on a device.
What do you mean by "ICON" ?
I must be searching in the archive for the wrong string.
I want to test a MIB or MIBs and then trigger a change in the ICON red,
yellow, green
e.g. temperature of a device, or reserve power in a UPS
Can you be more specific about the "device" ?
E.g, there are templates for a number of UPS models shipped with devmon.
I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon
server.
What distro?
If Mandriva or RHEL/CentOS, there are packages, quick installation is documented here:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorCentOS
It seems that it can read the bb-hosts file to find the devices to
monitor.
But then again, I read that you have to edit a configuration file for
the device and the test to run.
At present, devmon doesn't utilise the information in the MIB files, instead it uses templates. A number of templates are shipped in the devmon templates release.
I could not find a good testing info source of the options that are
available.
?
If you use the config file does it then only test the devices in the
configs file vs. the bb-hosts file?
After adding a device to bb-hosts, you need to run devmon --readbbhosts (or 'service devmon readbbhosts) to get devmon to poll the device, trying to identify it from it's sysDescr. If it matches it to a template, it stores the device, model, options etc. in an internal file (which you should not modify, but you can view partially with 'strings').
Have you read the devmon documentation?
Regards,
Buchan