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
filer11.22.33.44Network AppliancesNetApp
v1.0if_load,status,netapptempSecret
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