[Xymon] Fwd: Re: Xymon Server in Debian

[Iain M Conochie]

On 2013-04-11 09:06, Danny Roberts wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am currently testing out Xymon and using Debian as both the server
> and client in my tests. I installed both xymon clients and the xymon
> server from the Debian repo rather than using the .deb from the xymon
> site or compiling from source. I have a couple of issues that may be
> Debian sepcific, I originally asked this question on the Debian 
> forums
> (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103076 [1]) but got no
> response.
>
> 1. I created a user using "htpasswd" so that I could access the cgi
> sections of the web server, however I am never prompted for a
> username/password so still cannot access these sections.

How did you setup you apache installation for Xymon? Sounds like you 
need to add authentication config
for apache here.

> 2. I was looking for hosts.cfg to setup monitoring of diskspace and
> the like but the file does not exist under /etc/hobbit where I
> expected it. In-fact any file mentioned on this page does not seem to
> exist: http://xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-config.html [2]

Have a look in /usr/lib/hobbit/. Under there you will see server for 
the server files and client for the client files

>
> This second point in particular makes me think Debian is doing
> something odd with packaging and file names etc. Any help is greatly
> appreciated. 

Cheers

Iain