How to use the critical system.
list Robert P McGraw
Running xymon 4.2.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 server. Have read the document on the "Critical systems editor" and tried to edit a host but I get nothing in the hobbit-nkview.cfg file. I have looked in the /var/log/xymon logs and I do not see any errors. I enter a host name and a test and the click search. At that time I get a window popup "No recored forthis host/service". I then click on "update record" but nothing happens and the "Last update by:" does not change. Not sure where to look for errors to try and find out what is going on. Can someone give me some tips on how to get this going? Thanks Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (XXX) XXX-XXXX XXX N. University Street West Lafayette, IN XXXXX-XXXX
list Buchan Milne
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On Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:10:46 McGraw, Robert P wrote:
Running xymon 4.2.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 server. Have read the document on the "Critical systems editor" and tried to edit a host but I get nothing in the hobbit-nkview.cfg file. I have looked in the /var/log/xymon logs and I do not see any errors. I enter a host name and a test and the click search. At that time I get a window popup "No recored forthis host/service". I then click on "update record" but nothing happens and the "Last update by:" does not change. Not sure where to look for errors to try and find out what is going on. Can someone give me some tips on how to get this going?
Ensure the user as whom your web server runs has write access to the hobbit- nkview.cfg and hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak files (create them first if necessary). Note that errors in the CGIs would go to your web server logs. Regards, Buchan
list Jef Jagers
Instead of clicking on search, enter a hostname and test name. Click on update. Check if the file ~/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg has been updated. If not, the owner/group that running the webserver doesn't have access to it. (Change as appropriate) Regards, Jef Jagers Systems Engineer Thomson CompuMark Thomson Reuters T +32 3 220 76 02
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From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: woensdag, september 29, 2010 00:24
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Cc: McGraw, Robert P
Subject: Re: [xymon] How to use the critical system.
On Tuesday, 28 September 2010 19:10:46 McGraw, Robert P wrote:Running xymon 4.2.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 server. Have read the document on the "Critical systems editor" and tried to edit a host but I get nothing in the hobbit-nkview.cfg file. I have looked in the /var/log/xymon logs and I do not see any errors. I enter a host name and a test and the click search. At that time I get a window popup "No recored forthis host/service". I then click on
"update
record" but nothing happens and the "Last update by:" does not change. Not sure where to look for errors to try and find out what is going on. Can someone give me some tips on how to get this going?
Ensure the user as whom your web server runs has write access to the hobbit- nkview.cfg and hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak files (create them first if necessary). Note that errors in the CGIs would go to your web server logs. Regards, Buchan
list Tom Moore
Make sure your hobbit-nkview.cfg file has read/write permissions for your webserver user, i.e. rw-rw-r apache:apache hobbit-nkview.cfg Also, go ahead and create a second file called "hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak" with the same perms/ownerships.
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-----Original Message-----
From: McGraw, Robert P [mailto:user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:11 PM
To: 'xymon at xymon.com'
Subject: [xymon] How to use the critical system.
Running xymon 4.2.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 server.
Have read the document on the "Critical systems editor" and tried to edit a host but I get nothing in the hobbit-nkview.cfg file.
I have looked in the /var/log/xymon logs and I do not see any errors.
I enter a host name and a test and the click search. At that time I get a window popup "No recored forthis host/service". I then click on "update record" but nothing happens and the "Last update by:" does not change.
Not sure where to look for errors to try and find out what is going on.
Can someone give me some tips on how to get this going?
Thanks
Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
Manager, Computer System EMAIL: user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid
Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807
Department of Mathematics PHONE: (XXX) XXX-XXXX
XXX N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN XXXXX-XXXX