<div dir="ltr">Resolved.<div><br></div><div>Needed to specify the hostname in xymon-client file because of some odd things being done with hostnames on the systems involved.</div><div><br></div><div>After dropping the clients and re-adding them all is well. Thanks for the help!</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<div><br>Chris Short<div><a href="http://chrisshort.net" target="_blank">http://chrisshort.net</a></div><div>Public PGP Key: <a href="http://cshort.co/pub_key" target="_blank">http://cshort.co/pub_key</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Mike Burger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mburger@bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">mburger@bubbanfriends.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 2014-05-15 1:36 pm, Chris Short wrote:<br>
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Both "configured" clients show up in my Ghost Clients list.<br>
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>From hosts.cfg:<br>
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10.1.5.179 <a href="http://host1.example.com" target="_blank">host1.example.com</a> [6]<br>
10.1.5.178 <a href="http://host2.example.com" target="_blank">host2.example.com</a> [7]<br>
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>From Ghost Clients:<br>
<br>
host1 10.1.5.179 <a href="http://host1.example.com" target="_blank">host1.example.com</a> [6] 1:40<br>
host2 10.1.5.178 <a href="http://host2.example.com" target="_blank">host2.example.com</a> [7] 0:00<div class=""><br>
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I have tried both short and fqdn in hosts.cfg. Doesn't seem to matter,<br>
clients always appear as ghosts.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chris Short<br>
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Mike Burger<br>
<<a href="mailto:mburger@bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">mburger@bubbanfriends.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2014-05-14 3:01 pm, Chris Short wrote:<br>
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Of course. That's not having any effect though. Very unusual.<br>
<br>
I do see that the client is trying to communicate with the xymon<br>
server though:<br>
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# netstat -tupan | grep 1984<br></div>
tcp 0 0 <a href="http://10.1.5.178:56627" target="_blank">10.1.5.178:56627</a> [1] [4]<br>
<a href="http://10.1.5.219:1984" target="_blank">10.1.5.219:1984</a> [2]<div class=""><br>
[5] TIME_WAIT -<br>
<br>
Are there any communication tests I can run from the server or<br>
client<br>
to test functions?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chris Short<br>
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Mike Burger<br>
<<a href="mailto:mburger@bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">mburger@bubbanfriends.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2014-05-13 4:25 pm, Chris Short wrote:<br>
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Interestingly enough that's not working either. I removed the old<br>
package, installed the terabithia rpm, and started the<br>
xymon-client.<br>
It did not complain about XYMONSERVERS not being set so something<br>
isn't right here. Let me try a different box.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chris Short<br>
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Mike Burger<br>
<<a href="mailto:mburger@bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">mburger@bubbanfriends.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2014-05-13 1:48 pm, Chris Short wrote:<br>
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Built the rpm using the makerpm.sh script and installed with yum.<br>
Directory is not present on the box.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Chris Short<br>
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Mike Burger<br>
<<a href="mailto:mburger@bubbanfriends.org" target="_blank">mburger@bubbanfriends.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2014-05-13 11:52 am, Chris Short wrote:<br>
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I have xymon-client running on a handful of RHEL6 servers. But,<br>
other<br>
RHEL6 servers where I am rolling out the client throw up this<br>
unusual<br>
error:<br>
<br>
# service xymon-client restart<br>
Restarting xymon-client: su: warning: cannot change directory to<br>
/usr/share/xymon-client: No such file or directory<br>
This account is currently not available.<br>
<br>
Any ideas why /usr/share/xymon-client isn't being built?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
What method did you use to install the client? If you installed via<br>
RPM, the directory should exist with ownership root:root and<br>
permissions 755.<br>
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Interesting. I've been using the RPMs from <a href="http://terabithia.org" target="_blank">terabithia.org</a> [5] [3]<div class=""><br>
[3],<br>
<br>
which<br>
<br>
have installed, properly. My suggestion would be to grab them and<br>
try<br>
again.<br>
<br>
You'll want to edit /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client and fill in the<br>
XYMON-SERVERS variable.<br>
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Does anything show up in your Ghost Clients list?<br>
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Since the xymon-client is reporting to the server via short name (as you can see in the ghost client list), I'm pretty sure you'll need to specify the hosts via short name in the hosts.cfg.<br>
<br>
After that, it will take a while for the data to start populating the the columns on the page where you've specified the hosts to appear...it's not instantaneous and, if my understanding is correct, the server does not accept any data (messages, RRD data, etc) until the host has been properly added to the hosts.cfg.<br>
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Unless I've missed something, then as long as you've got the IP, hostname, OS and columns specified, you should start seeing within 15-30 minutes. In the meantime, you'll still see them in the ghost client list...but, in my experience, the hostname being displayed in the ghost list should match the link for the page for that host.<div class="HOEnZb">
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Mike Burger<br>
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"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1<br>
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