Xymon web interface missing? 🔗 link

Hi all,

I have a fresh install of Xymon on CentOS 5, following the instructions here:

http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html

There were no errors during configure or install, but now when trying to access the URL, I see a directory listing (folders called gifs, help, html, menu, etc) rather than the Xymon web interface.

Sorry to pose this question here, but I have no idea how this is supposed to work.  Should there be an index.php/index.html that is missing or somehow didn't get installed?  An Alias to the correct file in the Apache config (xymon.conf)?

Thanks for any help!

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Elliott Barrere
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:06 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon web interface missing?

Hi all,

I have a fresh install of Xymon on CentOS 5, following the instructions
here:

http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html

There were no errors during configure or install, but now when trying to
access the URL, I see a directory listing (folders called gifs, help,
html, menu, etc) rather than the Xymon web interface.

Sorry to pose this question here, but I have no idea how this is
supposed to work.  Should there be an index.php/index.html that is
missing or somehow didn't get installed?  An Alias to the correct file
in the Apache config (xymon.conf)?

Thanks for any help!

Elliott,

Did you remember to symlink xymon-apache.conf into your
/etc/httpd/conf.d (or /etc/apache2/conf.d) directory?

ln -s /path/to/your/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d

or

ln -s /path/to/your/xymon-apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d

And then reload your webserver's configuration?

service httpd reload

or

service apache2 reload

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Thanks for the feedback.  I did copy the file over and restart apache.  No reason it _needs_ to be a symlink, right?

You need to start Xymon so it creates bb.html and a soft link index.html

Ah, thanks Josh, so the Xymon process creates the index.html.

I did _try_ to start the service.  It said "Starting Xymon: Xymon started", but maybe something went wrong.

Looking in the logs, I see a few things that might be a problem, knowing now that Xymon creates the index file:

$ tail /var/log/xymon/xymongen.log
2012-12-20 08:55:30 ->  Recipient '<IP>', timeout 15
2012-12-20 08:55:30 ->  1st line: 'xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist'
2012-12-20 08:55:30 xymond status-board not available, code 7
2012-12-20 08:55:30 Failed to load current Xymon status, aborting page-update
2012-12-20 08:56:32 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout)


So it sounds like maybe I need to get some host checks working before it will create the web interface?

Any thoughts on why the IP of the server itself would timeout during checks?  I've verified that fping <IP> reports the host is alive, but beyond that I'm not sure where to look.  I've also just tried disabling the firewall and restarting Xymon, with no luck.

Thanks!


Josh Luthman
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Troy, OH XXXXX

Default xymon-hosts.cfg should include the server itself.  Even if it is
blank, I expect it would work and just have zero hosts output (it would
include the HTML above and below it).

I can't say I know what those errors mean but I know just after
./configure.server && make && make install you can can start Xymon with the
config entered from ./configure.server

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Elliott Barrere <

user-96c7db05f3dc@xymon.invalid> wrote:

So it looks like I spoke too soon.  The files are now there, and the interface is accessible.  The only thing I can think is that restarting with the firewall turned off must have fixed it.

Thanks for the help!

Check the xymongen entry in tasks.cfg. Make sure its creating the html
files in the correct directory. Also check the permissions on your www
directory, it has to be writable the by the user running xymon and readable
by the user running your web server (typically either apache or nobody).
The xymongen log files may also be informative.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Josh Luthman

<user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>wrote: