Snmp with devmon

Yes, I believe you are correct that it is not started. Use the init script
or just run the devmon executable and it should spawn some daemons. The
--readbbhosts just imports the configs from bbhosts but doesn't actually run
the tests and send the results.

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Buchan Milne <user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid>wrote:

On Friday 12 September 2008 05:57:32 Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

Is there a document, web site or mailing list with more assistance for
Devmon?

The devmon mailing lists are available from the sourceforge page.

Currently I am getting rather frustrated with it.
The instructions

Which "instructions"? Devmon ships with an INSTALLATION file, and a USING
file. I really can't see what is missing in the documentation, and unless
you're more specific about which documentation you followed, I can't
improve
it.

are something along the lines of
1. Install like so
2. ???
3. Results.

I need a little more help with step 2.
Even though I have followed step 1. to the letter and am getting
something that looks sane in the devmon hosts.db, I am still getting no
results in hobbit.
Nothing in the logs either :-(

Does devmon have a debug mode to force it to log?

I assume you've run --help, which lists:

Usage: devmon [arguments]

 Arguments:
  -c       Specify config file location
  -d       Specify database file location
  -f       Run in foreground.  Prevents running in daemon mode.
  -p       Print message.  Don't send message to display server.
           print it to stdout
  -v       Verbose mode.  The more v's, the more vebose logging.
  --debug  Print debug output (this can be quite extensive).

 Mutually exclusive arguments:
  --readbbhosts   Read in data from the BigBrother/Hobbit hosts file
  --syncconfig    Update multinode DB with the global config options
                  configured on this local node.
  --synctemplates Update multinode device templates with the template
                  data on this local node.
  --resetowners   Reset multinode device ownership data.  This will
                  cause all nodes to recalculate ownership data.

In the bb-hosts file, I have this.
11.22.33.44  filer     # netapp COMMENT:"Netapp01"
DEVMON:tests(if_load,status,netapptemp),cid(Secret)

In he hosts.db I get this
filer 11.22.33.44 Network Appliances NetApp
v1.0 if_load,status,netapptemp Secret

Crontab -l
*/5 * * *  *    /usr/local/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts

I don't use this myself, and running it every 5 minutes is a bit excessive.
I
assume you are aware that this does *nothing* besides update the hosts.db
file, it doesn't actually poll any devices.

My devmon.cfg looks like this
MULTINODE=NO
BBHOSTS=/etc/hobbit/bb-hosts
BBTAG=DEVMON
SNMPCIDS=public,private,Secret
NODENAME=HOSTNAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/devmon/devmon.pid

Is this file writable by the user that runs devmon?

LOGFILE=/var/log/hobbit/devmon.log

Same question here.

DBHOST=1.2.3.4
DBNAME=devmon
DBUSER=devmon
DBPASS=devmon
BBTYPE=hobbit
DISPSERV=localhost
DISPPORT=1984
MSGSIZE=8096
MSGSLEEP=10
CYCLETIME=60
DEADTIME=180
CLEARTIME=180
NUMFORKS=10
MAXPOLLTIME=30
SNMPTIMEOUT=2
SNMPTRIES=5

But still nothing in Hobbit.

What now?

Did you actually *start* devmon?

A sample init script is provided in the extras directory. This is covered
in
points 6 and 7 of the INSTALLATION file ...


Regards,
Buchan