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<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If I
recall correctly a clear status is shown when Xymon hasn't received any status
message for that particular test, or if it is not configured to process that
particular message (using the "noconn" option for example). I would confirm that
you have configured the software to check and report files, ports and
procs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I have
one example where I am checking that a program called "tethereal" is running.
There must be at least one of these but there can be up to
50.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am
also checking that port 5901 has a VNC daemon running on it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>HOST=vsniff.FRA<BR> PORT
"LOCAL=%([.:]5901)$" state=LISTEN
TEXT=vnc<BR> PROC tethereal 1 50
red<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>To
verify that this is working put these lines, or something that's going to work,
in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> the hobbit-clients.cfg on the server. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>After a few
minutes look in your web browser to see if this data is showing as up or down on
your Xymon website, you should see some data.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
believe that this information is retrieved from the message packet that the
client sends to the server, you can view this data in your web browser by
clicking on any of the available test links for a given server (apart from info)
and clicking on the "<A
href="http://hbt0.lon.oss.colt.net/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=nms2.lon.oss.colt.net"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Client data</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#87a9e5> available" link</FONT>. Once the server retrieves this data it
searches the process list for the PROC entries and it searches the "netstat -a"
data for the PORT entries.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As for
the connection being white, hobbitping is what you have configured your Xymon
server to use to check connectivity. If your hobbitping isn't able to run then
connectivity cannot be checked and this is why everything is white in this
column.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Do as
you have been instructed and set the hobbitping program to run setuid. I believe
that it should be set this way during installation so try the
following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>$ ls
-al /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root
hobbit 125088 Jan 9 15:27
hobbitping<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
should see the output as I have it above, however from the error message you are
getting I guess you are seeing something like:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit hobbit 125088
Jan 9 15:27 hobbitping<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So you
will need to change to the root user (use sudo or su) and
execute:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>#
chown root:hobbit /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>#
chmod 4755 /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
first changes the owner to root and the second changes it so that when
hobbitping is executed it is run with the root user's
privileges.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>HTH</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=667483110-09022009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>|\/|artin</DIV></FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> pankaj dorlikar
[mailto:pankaj.dorlikar@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 07 February 2009
11:23<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit]
conn,files,ports and procs columns have status as
clear..help<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi,<BR>i am using xymon 4.2.2.RC1 for linux.In
all clients and server also i get status of <BR clear=all>conn,files,ports and
procs columns status as clear <A href="http://always.is">always.is</A> there
any erro?How to make these colums show correct stastus?<BR>Details
:<BR> conn - Hobbit system error(clear)<BR>Files- No files
checked(clear)<BR>Ports-No port checks defined(clear)<BR>Procs-No process
checks defined(clear)<BR><BR>also Execution of 'hobbitping -Ae' failed -
program not suid root? is shown in bbtest columcn of serevr(red)<BR><BR>For
getting complete status of client, is it sufficient to just copy client folder
to another client and run runclient.sh ?will it give me complete status of
client including extrenal tests configured for client<BR>kindly
help<BR>--<BR>Pankaj V. Dorlikar<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3><BR>
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