yum or rpm for Redhat 6 🔗 link

Xymon experts,

  I am running the Redhat 6.2 64 bit OS.  Is there a  (yum) distribution
channel for Xymon or perhaps a rpm src package for Redhat 6 to install
from?  Or will I need to build and compile it all from scratch from the
given download package?


Tim Tyler

Network Engineer

Beloit College

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 16:35 -0500, Tim Tyler wrote:

Hi,

I don't know of any RPM package or repo for Xymon. I built it from
source and run it on CentOS 6.2 (64-bit).


John.

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There is no official RPM set or repo for Xymon... However, you might find
these helpful if you need RH6 x86_64:
http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/el6/


Regards,

-jc

JC, other Xymon experts,
  The rpm's from http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/el6/ seem to be working
like a charm (xymon-4.3.7-14).  I installed them and got the server up and
running just fine.  I installed the client rpm on another server and it
seemed to install without any problems and I changed the xymonclient.cfg
to contain the server ip address.   But I am not sure with this  version
how to configure the server (or client) to monitor disk space, cpu, etc.
In my old host.cfg file on the server, I used to have a line like the
following:
192.168.20.20 xxx.beloit.edu      # bbd ssh

But the problem is that I am getting a red button for the bbd field
related to the client server.   I ran the xymonlaunch client program on
192.168.20.20 (client server) and it seems to be running.  But the Xymon
server won't show a connection for it.  Is bbd still a valid field?  So
now I am not even sure which side I need to fix this.  If I have both the
xymon server and a client server running, can someone point me to what
file I need to look at and what configuration I might be missing?
 Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:43 PM
To: Tim Tyler
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] yum or rpm for Redhat 6

There is no official RPM set or repo for Xymon... However, you might find
these helpful if you need RH6 x86_64:
http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/el6/


Regards,

-jc

 Typo in lib/stackio.c in release 4.3.7 in line ~341:


       if (*dirname == '/') strcpy(dirfn, dirname); else sprintf(dirfn,
"%s/%s", stackfd_base, dirname);

        if ((dirfd = opendir(dirfn)) == NULL) {
                errprintf("Cannot open directory %s\n", fn);
                return;
        }


Should be something like:

        if (*dirname == '/') strcpy(dirfn, dirname); else sprintf(dirfn,
"%s/%s", stackfd_base, dirname);

        if ((dirfd = opendir(dirfn)) == NULL) {
                errprintf("Cannot open directory %s\n", dirfn);
                return;
        }

Tim,

bbd is still a valid field; if the main xymond server is running there it
should be green. Does it change when you substitute 127.0.0.1 for the IP?


The server's local client report (the server's own disk/cpu, etc) is still
sent the same way as before: through the single xymonlaunch process
configured via tasks.cfg.

On the server the client should always report locally. You can edit
xymonlaunch.cfg by hand, but the better location to configure the client's
reporting destination is /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client. Can you see if
putting either the public IP or 127.0.0.1 there fixes the problem?

If not, can you send (off list) the output of
xymoncmd --env=/etc/xymon/xymonserver.cfg env
and
xymoncmd --env=/etc/xymon-client/xymonclient.cfg env


Thanks...

-jc