Hi Mark,<br><br>I presume both laptops are on the same lan? What are the subnet masks of the Xymon server and client - also probably worth advising whether the VM host resides on the same subnet as the client laptop? I'm guessing it could be a mask issue...<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Phil<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/9 Mark Whalley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Mark.Whalley@ingres.com">Mark.Whalley@ingres.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi xymon/hobbit group</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to set up a
xymon with some success.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My setup so far. I have xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 installed
and running on a Fedora 11 Virtual Machine (VMWare server 1.0.9) on a Windows
XP laptop. This xymon server appears to be working correctly with it
monitoring itself (bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu etc) and happily doing connectivity
tests to some remote linux/aix servers that I have access to at work. So
far, so good.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I now want to do some client monitoring. Initially
starting with the in-built monitoring tools (cpu, disk etc), then to develop
some of my own scripts (korn/born shell) to monitor my Ingres
installations. To start off, I have installed xymon client on another laptop
which is also running Fedora 11 (on bare metal rather than via a VM). Although
the xymon server is happily pinging the client and showing green on the current
status, I do not seem to be able to get it to display any of the other data.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On checking the client, I am getting “Whoops ! bb
failed to send message – timeout” every 5 minutes within
hobbitclient.log.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On further checking, I have found that although I can telnet
and ping from the server to the client, the client is unable to even ping the
server (via IP address) – it just hangs.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Server to Client:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[xymon@beziers etc]$ ping 192.168.1.69</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.1.69" target="_blank">192.168.1.69</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.74 ms</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.1.69" target="_blank">192.168.1.69</a>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.41 ms</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.1.69" target="_blank">192.168.1.69</a>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.42 ms</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Client to Server:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[xymon@lecroisic client]$ ping 192.168.174.129</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PING 192.168.174.129 (192.168.174.129) 56(84) bytes of data.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thinking it might be a firewall issue, I have temporarily
disabled all firewall protection on both client and server, and even disabled
the firewall on Windows XP (within which the VMawre Server is running the xymon
server) – but with no success.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This unfortunately is where my networking knowledge fails me
(and thus my plea for help!) and a Google search has not given me any clues
(that I can understand). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Mark</span></p>
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