Xymon Server in Debian
list Danny Roberts
Hi Folks, I am currently testing out Xymon and using Debian as both the server and client in my tests. I installed both xymon clients and the xymon server from the Debian repo rather than using the .deb from the xymon site or compiling from source. I have a couple of issues that may be Debian sepcific, I originally asked this question on the Debian forums ( http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103076) but got no response. 1. I created a user using "htpasswd" so that I could access the cgi sections of the web server, however I am never prompted for a username/password so still cannot access these sections. 2. I was looking for hosts.cfg to setup monitoring of diskspace and the like but the file does not exist under /etc/hobbit where I expected it. In-fact any file mentioned on this page does not seem to exist: http://xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-config.html This second point in particular makes me think Debian is doing something odd with packaging and file names etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Kind Regards Danny R Website: http://danny-roberts.info/
list Iain M Conochie
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On 2013-04-11 09:06, Danny Roberts wrote:
Hi Folks, I am currently testing out Xymon and using Debian as both the server and client in my tests. I installed both xymon clients and the xymon server from the Debian repo rather than using the .deb from the xymon site or compiling from source. I have a couple of issues that may be Debian sepcific, I originally asked this question on the Debian forums
(http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103076 [1]) but got no
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response.
1. I created a user using "htpasswd" so that I could access the cgi
sections of the web server, however I am never prompted for a
username/password so still cannot access these sections.How did you setup you apache installation for Xymon? Sounds like you need to add authentication config for apache here.
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2. I was looking for hosts.cfg to setup monitoring of diskspace and the like but the file does not exist under /etc/hobbit where I expected it. In-fact any file mentioned on this page does not seem to
exist: http://xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-config.html [2]
Have a look in /usr/lib/hobbit/. Under there you will see server for the server files and client for the client files
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This second point in particular makes me think Debian is doing something odd with packaging and file names etc. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers Iain
list Ryan Novosielski
dpkg -L on an installed package name (and dpkg -l to get all packages in a one-per-line format) will tell you what files a package DID install. The CGI stuff is really an Apache question. But you might check the mailing list archives or re-read the documentation. Seems to me that the Apache config changes were documented pretty well.
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From: Danny Roberts [mailto:user-a7af7fdace95@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 04:06 AM To: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Server in Debian Hi Folks, I am currently testing out Xymon and using Debian as both the server and client in my tests. I installed both xymon clients and the xymon server from the Debian repo rather than using the .deb from the xymon site or compiling from source. I have a couple of issues that may be Debian sepcific, I originally asked this question on the Debian forums (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103076) but got no response. 1. I created a user using "htpasswd" so that I could access the cgi sections of the web server, however I am never prompted for a username/password so still cannot access these sections. 2. I was looking for hosts.cfg to setup monitoring of diskspace and the like but the file does not exist under /etc/hobbit where I expected it. In-fact any file mentioned on this page does not seem to exist: http://xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-config.html This second point in particular makes me think Debian is doing something odd with packaging and file names etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Kind Regards Danny R Website: http://danny-roberts.info/