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<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>The documentation
for getting Xymon up and running needs work -- little variations in the process
can break things and leave you no information on what is
broken!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've setup a Xymon
server and ~10 clients. After setting up the server, I usually followed
this process for getting the (all Linux) clients up:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the client, as
root, I did 'useradd -u 501 -g 501 xymon' to get the userID into /etc/passwd
and create /home/xymon.</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>As xymon, I
exploded the xymon tarball, did a './configure --client' and a 'make'.
No errors of significance were reported.</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>As root, I did
'make install' to create the /home/xymon/client directory.</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>As xymon, I did
'~/client/runclient.sh start' to get the client running.</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the server,
added 'IP host # ssh' to the bb-hosts file and restarted
Xymon.</FONT></SPAN></LI></OL>
<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>After a while, the
new client would be added to the main page of Xymon with the following
tests would be filled in:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<LI><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>conn, cpu, disk,
files, info, memory, msgs, ports, procs, ssh, trends</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Recently, I tried
doing #5 *before* doing 2, 3, and 4. Awhile after doing #5 (but before
#2), the main page would update on the server with the new client, but only
the 'conn', 'files', 'info', 'ssh', and 'trends' columns were filled in.
After doing 2, 3, and 4 on the client, I again restarted Xymon, but
the other columns (cpu, disk, memory, msgs, procs, ports) refused to be filled
in. Digging into this, I can't find anything in any of the logs of
all my systems (working or not) to give me a clue on how these tests run and why
they are not running on some systems.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>These tests are not
listed as tests that you enter in bb-hosts, so c<SPAN
class=055092200-13022009><FONT face=Arial size=2>an anyone explain how to get
these other tests running against the clients?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face="Lucida Calligraphy" size=2>David
Masterson</FONT></DIV>
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