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

Thu Jun 11 00:27:16 CEST 2009

In case any one else goes through this I found the fix as follows for
redhat 3 Rhel3

Looks like I got a crap rpm, do not download form the following url!!!
*** http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel3/xymon/i386/ ***

Instead follow this.

Install the following from http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rrdtool/

perl-rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el3.rf.i386.rpm
rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el3.rf.i386.rpm
rrdtool-devel-1.0.50-3.el3

Also install from dag:
fping-2.4-1.b2.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm
and
pcre-devel-3.9-3.i386.rpm

I also installed perl-Time-HiRes-1.9712-1.el3.rf.i386.rpm but not sure
if it is needed.

Finally I installed hobbit from:
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-3/RE/hobbit-4.2.0-7.el3.re.i386.rpm

And it works.

Thanks guys for your suggestions.

2009/6/11 Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>:
> Restart the processes and look at anything in the logs?
>
> If it were me I would just compile it, leaving defaults.  I've done it
> with every version of CentOS since 4.2 with issues.
>
> On 6/10/09, Paul Ward <pnward at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> namei -m /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
>> f: /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
>>  drwxr-xr-x /
>>  drwxr-xr-x usr
>>  drwxr-xr-x lib
>>  drwxr-xr-x xymon
>>  drwxr-xr-x server
>>  lrwxrwxrwx www -> /var/lib/xymon/www
>>    drwxr-xr-x /
>>    drwxr-xr-x var
>>    drwxr-xr-x lib
>>    drwxr-xr-x xymon
>>    drwxrwxr-x www
>>
>>
>> 2009/6/11 Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>:
>>> index.html should be a softlink to bb.html
>>>
>>> Why those files aren't there after an RPM install is beyond me, but my
>>> guess
>>> is a permissions issue at this point.
>>>
>>> Do a namei -m /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>
>>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
>>> improbable, must be the truth."
>>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul Ward <pnward at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Yes the services are running but I can not find the index.html.
>>>>
>>>> [root at unix xymon]# ps -ef | grep xymon
>>>> xymon    25636     1  0 08:41 ?        00:00:00
>>>> /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch
>>>> --config=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
>>>> --env=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>>>> --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.log
>>>> --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.pid
>>>> xymon    25637 25636  0 08:41 ?        00:00:00 hobbitd
>>>> --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitd.pid
>>>> --restart=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
>>>> --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
>>>> --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitd.log
>>>> --admin-senders=127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 --store-clientlogs=!msgs
>>>> root     25699 18362  0 08:48 pts/1    00:00:00 grep xymon
>>>>
>>>> [root at unix xymon]# links --dump 127.0.0.1/xymon
>>>>                                Index of /xymon
>>>>
>>>>  Icon Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>  [DIR] Parent Directory                             -
>>>>  [DIR] gifs/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>>  [DIR] help/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>>  [DIR] menu/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>>  [DIR] notes/                  26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>>  [DIR] rep/                    26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>>  [DIR] snap/                   26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>    Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/6/10 Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>:
>>>> > 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
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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