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TS - Hobbit ==> SNMP

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list Tom Schmitt · Thu, 27 May 2010 15:13:36 -0600 ·
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.

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

 
I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon
server.

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.

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?

 
Thanks,

 
Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West

P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX

Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX

Cell      (XXX) XXX-XXXX

eFax    (XXX) XXX-XXXX

user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid

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list Josh Luthman · Thu, 27 May 2010 17:27:29 -0400 ·
What is wrong with this?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO/Devmon_SNMP

Josh Luthman
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continue that counts.”
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quoted from Tom Schmitt


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM,  <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.

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


I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon
server.

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.

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?


Thanks,


Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West

P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX

Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX

Cell      (XXX) XXX-XXXX

eFax    (XXX) XXX-XXXX

user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid

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             | @  @ |

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list Tim McCloskey · Thu, 27 May 2010 14:32:27 -0700 ·
I'm not familiar with devmon but custom tests are described in sufficient detail here:
http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html

Good Luck.
quoted from Josh Luthman


From: user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid [user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:13 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] TS - Hobbit ==> SNMP

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.
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

I am also looking for a GOOD ☺ HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon server.
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.
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?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
L-3 Communication Systems West
640 North 2200 West
P.O. Box 16850
Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX
Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX
Cell      (XXX) XXX-XXXX
eFax    (XXX) XXX-XXXX
user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid
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             \ ~  ~ /
             | @  @ |
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list Buchan Milne · Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:11:23 +0100 ·
quoted from Tim McCloskey
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" ?
quoted from Tim McCloskey

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.
quoted from Tim McCloskey

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
quoted from Tim McCloskey
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.
quoted from Tim McCloskey
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