[hobbit] Can't access xymon web page on new install.

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 06:55:24 Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am kicking myself for not knowng this but I'll ask anyway.
>
> Just completed an install of xymon on rhel3, no problems. I choose to
> use the el3 xymon rpm.
>
> After it installed I tried to access the web page via
> http://localhost/xymon but I can only see the directories not the web
> page.
>
> what am I not doing.
>
> Successfull install --->
> rpm -ivh xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm xymon-client-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm
> warning: xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 60d204a7 Preparing...               
> ########################################### [100%] Adding user xymon to
> group adm
>    1:xymon-client           ########################################### [
> 50%] 2:xymon                  ###########################################
> [100%]

At this point, you should start xymon with:
# service xymon start
or similar

> web page for localhost/xymon --->

bb.html, index.html etc. are created by the bbgen task of xymon ... and those 
only run if hobbitlaunch is running, which is (ultimately) started by the 
/etc/init.d/xymon script.

Regards,
Buchan