Another Newbie question. What is supposed to run after entering URL 🔗 link

OK.  I've installed v4.3.0 into /home/xymon.  It seems to have installed
successfully on Solaris 10 or at least no major errors.  The URL for getting
into xymon http://svrnam/xymon which points to /home/xymon/server/www.  This
directory has:  
gifs/  help/  html/  menu/  notes/  phpinfo.php  rep/  snap/  wml/
subdirectories under it.  What script/executable/file is supposed to run
upon entry by the browser?  Shouldn't there be a index.html or similar in
there to start things off?


Charlie Moore

Hi Charles...  Welcome.

Once you start up Xymon for the first time, it will generate all the web files you're looking for.

So, check out /home/xymon/server.  There should be a file called "xymon.sh".  This starts up the server and begins the process of collecting data and creating those files.  You can run it (as the Xymon user) by doing this:

[xymon]$ ./xymon.sh start

It'll whirr for a second (depending on box beefiness) and then give you the prompt back.  Wait about 5 minutes, and go look at your webroot then...  It will contain the index.html you're looking for (and a whole lot more!)

On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Moore, Charles wrote:

#!/jerald
Linux User #183003
Ubuntu User #32648
Public GPG Key:  http://questy.org/js.asc

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GIT/MU d-@ s++(++)>+++:> a+ C++++(+++)$>++ UBLAVHSC++(on)$>++++ P++(+++)$>++++ L++(++++)$>+++ !E---(---)>--- W+(++)$>+++ N(+)$>++ !o !K-- w(--)>--- O()@> M++(++)$>++ V()>- PS+++()@>-- PE(++)@>+ Y+(+)@>+ PGP++(++)$>+++ t+(++)@>+++ 5(+)@>+ X+(++)@>+++ R+(+)@>++ tv-(+)$>++ b+++(++)$>++ DI++++(++)>+++ D++(++)@>++ G++(++)@>++ e++(++)$>++ h(-)$>- r+++(+++)@>+++ y+(+++)>++++@ 
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Thank you.  I stopped and started xymon a dozen times.  But, thanks to you
telling me that the files were supposed to be there, I started poking
through the logs to see who did what.  Turns out a small single line message
complained that ³ld.so.1: xymongen: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No
such file or directory².  I added /usr/local/lib to the libraries DB and
boom things started up.

Thank you for the pointer.

On 3/22/11 10:42 AM, "Jerald Sheets" <user-96a6f34c5806@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Charlie Moore
Senior Systems Engineer
EarthLink Business
(XXX) XXX-XXXX

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Moore, Charles

<user-9966bf74e8db@xymon.invalid>wrote:

The xymond process creates the index.html file.  When you run xymond for the
first time, the index.html doesn't exist, but after it runs through its
tests it will create it for you.

Cheers
Jeremy

Thanks for the reply.  Someone else pointed this out to me as well.  Turns
out that there was a problem with pcre libraries not being found in the
common directories.  This precluded any files being created.  I thought I
had a problem with apache configuration.  This all was not evident to me
until searching through the copious logs and found a single line entry about
the error.  Once I added pcre to the library database it has all started up
fine.

Thanks again.


On 3/22/11 4:24 PM, "Jeremy Laidman" <user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Moore, Charles <user-9966bf74e8db@xymon.invalid>

Charlie Moore
Senior Systems Engineer
EarthLink Business
(XXX) XXX-XXXX