[hobbit] Anyone have a pre compiled solaris 10 or mac OSX client?

William Ottley wottley at cmicanada.com
Fri Mar 20 20:32:32 CET 2009


Hi Brian,
I'm trying to compile the client, on a fresh install of solaris 10, but I
keep getting this error, would you know why?

Checking your make-utility
GNU make is required to build Xymon.
If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake
./configure.client'



On 19/03/09 9:52 PM, "Brian Catlin" <bcatlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Depending on your Solaris 10 buildout -you probably have gcc loaded on it
> already.   It is very easy to build a client from the server bundle.  Look
> in the source directory - there is a configure for client  - run it.  Then
> make and make install.  Make sure the client just built is not started and
> running.  cd to the directory above client in the Xymon install directory -
> tar it up = voila!  - a Solaris 10  client ready to deploy. You may want to
> do this in a chrooted jail so it does not interfere with current client set
> up. Any way you go - it is best to start with a clean build area.  I like to
> use a client server that needs a new client.  First one is the build center
> for that OS and version.  I build it out configure it to what I need,
> including extra scripts and whatever. I verify it works, turn off the client
> - clean up logs and temp, make sure the etc files are set up for global use,
> then make a tarball of it.  After I have the tarball - restart the client
> and away we go.  The tar ball I use to deploy - very little to change in
> install.
> 
> 
> Galen's site has the startup scripting needed to add Xymon in as a service
> in Solaris 10 - I don't know if it has been changed to xymon yet,but the one
> that had hobbit in it worked well = its very easy to edit and make the
> changes.  (You will have to edit it anyways to tell it where everything is)
> 
> The Mac I leave to those who use it and know it well.
> 
>  
> lurch at inorbit.com
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: William Ottley
> Date: 3/19/2009 12:16:46 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Anyone have a pre compiled solaris 10 or mac OSX client?
>  
> Hi all, 
> I'm a bit new with solaris 10 and mac OSX. (took a day and a half.. And
> Counting to figure out how to compile!)
>  
> So I thought I'd ask if anyone has a precompiled mac osx or solaris 10
> Client.... 
>  
> Thanks! 
>  
> William 
>  
>  
> On 19/03/09 11:38 AM, "dOCtoR MADneSs" <doctor at makelofine.org> wrote:
>  
>> Husemann, Harald a écrit :
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> you should run "devmon --readbbhosts -vvv --debug" and examine the
>>> output, if it was able to contact the switch and figure out the
>>> template for it from the sysdesc string.
>>> 
>>> hh 
>>> 
>>> William Ottley schrieb:
>>>> Yep I noticed that: but I thought it wasn't working since I didn't see
>>>> anything in the log file...LOL guess I assumed something would go
>>>> wrong? LOL 
>>>> 
>>>> Anyways I noticed the hosts.db file was being udpated.
>>>> 
>>>> Now the next step is to figure out how I go about doing the tests:
>>>> bandwidth, uptime, etc for the asa5500
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 19/03/09 10:21 AM, "Husemann, Harald" <Harald.Husemann at materna.de>
>>>> wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi William, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> all you have to do is including your switches in the bb-hosts, with a
>>>>> line like this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> <IP> <host> # DEVMON
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then, run "devmon --readbbhosts", and the devmon process will start
>>>>> polling the switch.
>>>>> 
>>>>> HTH, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Harald 
>>>>> 
>>>>> William Ottley schrieb:
>>>>>> Well we have a few 2600's, and an ASA5500 that I'd like to grab
>>>>>> info from, 
>>>>>> such as up time, bandwidth usage, etc....
>>>>>> I saw that there is a template for cisco ASA so I'm hoping its for
>>>>>> that 
>>>>>> machine. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm new at this, and just trying to figure out what "switches" I
>>>>>> have to put 
>>>>>> into the bb-hosts files...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (still haven't figured out what area to change: bb-hosts or the client
> 
>>>>>> config files)...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 19/03/09 9:38 AM, "McDonald, Dan"
>>>>>> <Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:29 -0400, William Ottley wrote:
>>>>>>>> Is there a Cisco monitoring script that I could use?
>>>>>>> Although you will hear many calls for devmon, devmon does not
>>>>>>> currently 
>>>>>>> support snmp v3. If that is a requirement for you, then I would
>>>>>>> recommend using mrtg with appropriate templates, and bbmrtg.pl to
>>>>>>> report 
>>>>>>> the values to xymon. I use that technique to monitor 135 UPS, 94
>>>>>>> temperature/humidity probes, 19 firewalls, and close to 300 Cisco
>>>>>>> routers/switches.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I'm looking for some Cisco devmon templates 2950, 1240 and ASA5500.
>> Tks for any help
>> 
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