RHEL5 client
list Cathy Smith
Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Tom Schmitt
Try setting it on the line where you run runclient.sh at startup:
/<path>/runclient.sh --hostname="abc.def.com" [restart|start|status|stop]
I usually place the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Host name must match the bb-hosts entry in Xymon.
Hope it helps!
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:43 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client
Folks
I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place?
We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Cathy
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Tim McCloskey
The IP/host of the rhel5 client would normally be added to the Xymon server (rhel4) bb-hosts file. http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-config.html http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html
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From: Smith, Cathy [user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:43 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client
Folks
I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place?
We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Cathy
---
Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Tom Schmitt
Try setting it on the line where you run runclient.sh at startup:
/<path>/runclient.sh --hostname="abc.def.com" [restart|start|status|stop]
I usually place the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Host name must match the bb-hosts entry in Xymon.
Hope it helps!
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
\\\\||////
\ ~ ~ /
| @ @ |
--oOo---(_)---oOo--
-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:43 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client
Folks
I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place?
We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Cathy
---
Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Ryan Novosielski
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, that is true, but the client should not be reporting 127.0.0.1 as its IP address either. Maybe the RHEL5 client has no hostname with a valid IP in its /etc/hosts, or the hostname is listed on the 127.0.0.1 line.
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On 07/26/2010 05:17 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:The IP/host of the rhel5 client would normally be added to the Xymon server (rhel4) bb-hosts file. http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-config.html http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html From: Smith, Cathy [user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:43 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
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list Tim McCloskey
Cathy, When you start the client, runclient.sh will get the client name from the MACHINEDOTS="`uname -n`" var. As Ryan mentioned, perhaps you don't have a hostname / ip configured in /etc/hosts on the RHEL5 box. Whatever the output of hostname is (from the RHEL5 box) should have a matched entry in rhel5:/etc/hosts that is not localhost. You can cheat and define your own hostname in runclient.sh but it would be better to stick with the standard setup and properly configure the RHEL5 client AND the server. The server expects to see the same hostname defined in bb-hosts as reported by the client's `hostname`/$MACHINDOTS var. Hope that makes some sense... Regards, Tim
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From: Ryan Novosielski [user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:28 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
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Yes, that is true, but the client should not be reporting 127.0.0.1 as
its IP address either. Maybe the RHEL5 client has no hostname with a
valid IP in its /etc/hosts, or the hostname is listed on the 127.0.0.1 line.
On 07/26/2010 05:17 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:The IP/host of the rhel5 client would normally be added to the Xymon server (rhel4) bb-hosts file. http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-config.html http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html From: Smith, Cathy [user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:43 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
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list Cathy Smith
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Adding the hostname to the startup script works nicely. I didn't include it in my original posting, but the host name was included in the /etc/hosts file. I tried changing the order of the entries in the hosts file, but that didn't seem to affect anything. The box was configured in the hobbit's server's bb-hosts file.
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCloskey [mailto:user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:44 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
Cathy,
When you start the client, runclient.sh will get the client name from the MACHINEDOTS="`uname -n`" var. As Ryan mentioned, perhaps you don't have a hostname / ip configured in /etc/hosts on the RHEL5 box.
Whatever the output of hostname is (from the RHEL5 box) should have a matched entry in rhel5:/etc/hosts that is not localhost.
You can cheat and define your own hostname in runclient.sh but it would be better to stick with the standard setup and properly configure the RHEL5 client AND the server. The server expects to see the same hostname defined in bb-hosts as reported by the client's `hostname`/$MACHINDOTS var.
Hope that makes some sense...
Regards,
Tim
From: Ryan Novosielski [user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:28 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
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Hash: SHA1
Yes, that is true, but the client should not be reporting 127.0.0.1 as
its IP address either. Maybe the RHEL5 client has no hostname with a
valid IP in its /etc/hosts, or the hostname is listed on the 127.0.0.1 line.
On 07/26/2010 05:17 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:The IP/host of the rhel5 client would normally be added to the Xymon server (rhel4) bb-hosts file. http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-config.html http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html From: Smith, Cathy [user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:43 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
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list Malcolm Hunter
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I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it.
By default CentOS (and it sounds like RHEL too) has the hostname the same as localhost in /etc/hosts. I usually change this so that the hostname has its static IP address instead. This should also fix the Xymon client. You may also need to clear out any *localhost* files in ~xymon/client/tmp too. Regards, Malcolm -- Technical copy-editor & proofreader KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FriendlyAtheist Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail
list Padraig Lennon
This might be of some use to people:
<ENDSCRIPT>
#!/bin/bash
#set -xv
#
# xymon This shell script takes care of starting and stopping xymon client
#
# chkconfig: 5 20 80
# description: Manages the Xymon client processes
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Short-Description: start and stop Xymon Client
### END INIT INFO
#set -x
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
DOMAINNAME=your.domain.com
if [ `echo ${HOSTNAME} | grep -ic "${DOMAINNAME}"` -eq 0 ]
then
FQNAME=${HOSTNAME}"."${DOMAINNAME}
else
FQNAME=${HOSTNAME}
fi
FQNAME=`echo $FQNAME | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
case $1 in
'start')
su - itsysmon -c "/path/to/hobbit/client/runclient.sh --hostname=${FQNAME} start"
;;
'stop')
su - itsysmon -c "/path/to/hobbit/client/runclient.sh --hostname=${FQNAME} stop"
pkill hobbitlaunch
pkill vmstat
pkill iostat
;;
'restart')
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
;;
esac
<ENDSCRIPT>
You should obviously replace your domain name (if required at all) and your install path..
I had to add the lines:
pkill hobbitlaunch
pkill vmstat
pkill iostat
As I found that they were not always stopped cleanly..
To add it to automatically restart
#chkconfig --add xymon
#chkconfig --level 5 xymon on
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Senior Systems Integration Engineer
Pioneer Investments Management Ltd
5th Floor |Georges Quay Plaza | Georges Quay | Dublin 2 | Rep. of Ireland
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-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 26 July 2010 23:49
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Adding the hostname to the startup script works nicely.
I didn't include it in my original posting, but the host name was included in the /etc/hosts file. I tried changing the order of the entries in the hosts file, but that didn't seem to affect anything. The box was configured in the hobbit's server's bb-hosts file.
Cathy
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCloskey [mailto:user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:44 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
Cathy,
When you start the client, runclient.sh will get the client name from the MACHINEDOTS="`uname -n`" var. As Ryan mentioned, perhaps you don't have a hostname / ip configured in /etc/hosts on the RHEL5 box.
Whatever the output of hostname is (from the RHEL5 box) should have a matched entry in rhel5:/etc/hosts that is not localhost.
You can cheat and define your own hostname in runclient.sh but it would be better to stick with the standard setup and properly configure the RHEL5 client AND the server. The server expects to see the same hostname defined in bb-hosts as reported by the client's `hostname`/$MACHINDOTS var.
Hope that makes some sense...
Regards,
Tim
From: Ryan Novosielski [user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:28 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
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Yes, that is true, but the client should not be reporting 127.0.0.1 as
its IP address either. Maybe the RHEL5 client has no hostname with a
valid IP in its /etc/hosts, or the hostname is listed on the 127.0.0.1 line.
On 07/26/2010 05:17 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:The IP/host of the rhel5 client would normally be added to the Xymon server (rhel4) bb-hosts file. http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-config.html http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html From: Smith, Cathy [user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:43 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] RHEL5 client Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
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On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:48:48 Lennon, Padraig wrote:
This might be of some use to people:
There are existing scripts shipped with the source (in rpm/hobbit-client.init or debian/hobbit-client.init), which reads the hostname from the CLIENTHOSTNAME variable in the relevant /etc/default or /etc/sysconfig file ... If it doesn't work for you, please file a bug or submit a patch. (Yes, it hasn't seen the hobbit->xymon change, but will soon, and probably needs some LSB headers too, which I will add soon) [...]
#chkconfig --add xymon #chkconfig --level 5 xymon on
Existing RPM packages supplied for RHEL5/CentOS 5 have the init script I mentioned above, and ensure the service is set to start at boot (in all normal runlevels, not just 5 ...). Regards, Buchan
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Fair enough... Wasn't trying to push it.. Just wanted to give an example... -P
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From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: 27 July 2010 15:50
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Lennon, Padraig
Subject: Re: [xymon] RE: RHEL5 client
On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:48:48 Lennon, Padraig wrote:This might be of some use to people:
There are existing scripts shipped with the source (in rpm/hobbit-client.init or debian/hobbit-client.init), which reads the hostname from the CLIENTHOSTNAME variable in the relevant /etc/default or /etc/sysconfig file ... If it doesn't work for you, please file a bug or submit a patch. (Yes, it hasn't seen the hobbit->xymon change, but will soon, and probably needs some LSB headers too, which I will add soon) [...]
#chkconfig --add xymon #chkconfig --level 5 xymon on
Existing RPM packages supplied for RHEL5/CentOS 5 have the init script I mentioned above, and ensure the service is set to start at boot (in all normal runlevels, not just 5 ...). Regards, Buchan -------------- next part -------------- "The information in this e-mail and in any attachments is confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). This information may be subject to legal, professional or other privilege and further distribution of it is strictly prohibited without our authority. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorised to and must not disclose, copy, distribute, or retain this message or any part of it, and should notify us immediately. This footnote also confirms that this email has been automatically scanned for the presence of computer viruses, profanities and certain file types." Pioneer Investment Management Limited. 1 George’s Quay Plaza, George’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. Registered in Ireland no. 287793.