[xymon] I need urgent help: Hobbit (linux) client startup failed

[Matic Madalina]

Hello Buchan.

Sorry for the inconvenince created with my off-list question. 

In the previous mail, I did not understand to reply also to the xymon at xymon.com.

The output of cat /etc/*release is:
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Carthage)
CM OS Image-Version: 1.20 (created Mon Mar 22 16:12:27 CET 2010)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

So , this is the distribution of linux that I am using and I suppose I should 
follow the steps from http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo

Unfortunately, I cannot simply run the wget 
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/Xymon.repo
because I cannot add repos directly to my servers. 
 
So, I have to test the new rpms on test server and only after to push the new 
rpms via puppet to my target server.
 
Can you provide me a link from where I can download the sources or a zip with 
the package that I need?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Madalina






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From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>
To: Matic Madalina <madalina.matic at yahoo.com>
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 2:10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [xymon] I need urgent help: Hobbit (linux) client startup failed

Please keep the xymon mailing list as a recipient. This is the last reply I 
will send you to an off-list question.


On Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:32:46 Matic Madalina wrote:
> Hello Buchan.
> 
> Thank you for your response.
> 
> I dot not know how to compile xymon for linux. Can you tell me please the
> commands that I should use?

As is conventional with most software supplied as source, a README document is 
supplied with the source, which documents the basics of how to compile the 
software (assuming you have the requirements - a C compiler etc. - installed).

> I am only using the application; the guy who implemented this has left the
> team last year.

Did he not provide any documentation on how he deployed clients? Maybe he 
already had pre-compiled binaries?

> I received the application configured with a Hobbit server working with 7
> unix clients. One of 7 unix clients was replaced with a linux one.
> 
> I only copied the unix client sources to the new linux one, but I did not
> change anything, only the address and host of the new linux server in the
> bb-hosts on the Hobbit server side.
> 
> I do not know even how to install xymon-client packages. I do not know how
> to find the distribution I use. I do not know from where to take a proper
> distribution for linux.

Personally it sounds like you aren't in a position to support this linux 
server. This list is not intended to provide Unix training ...

> Can you help me please with the commands, paths and steps:
>                  - to find the distribution I use?

You can try:
cat /etc/*release

>                  - to find a proper distribution for linux?
>                  - to install xymon-client package?

Will depend on the answer to the first question. If Mandriva, 'urpmi xymon-
client && vi /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client && service xymon-client start', on 
Debian 'apt-get install xymon-client'.

For CentOS or RHEL, you may want to use my repo:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo

If that doesn't help you, this page has some hints that may help:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorCentOS


Regards,
Buchan



      
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