[Xymon] Installing RetDS for bind statistics graphing

[Japheth Cleaver]

When running as the xymon user, I tend to make sure to run it within the 
xymoncmd environment as well... unless I'm certain I'll be executing 
everything in some other manner and there won't be any dependencies on 
it for message transmission or whatnot.

That sometimes brings out weird additional environmental things too.

-jc

On 9/22/2016 10:40 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> The log was empty...I think the log dir variable was wrong somehow.
>
> Now that there is a log:
> Can't locate Time/Piece.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) 
> at /home/USERHIDDEN/server/ext/retds.pl <http://retds.pl> line 58.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /home/USERHIDDEN/server/ext/retds.pl <http://retds.pl> line 58.
>
> Whoops.  Installed (CentOS) with
> $yum install perl-Time-Piece
>
>
> Josh Luthman
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:34 AM, W.J.M. Nelis <Wim.Nelis at nlr.nl 
> <mailto:Wim.Nelis at nlr.nl>> wrote:
>
>
>>     The script itself doesn't have SSH commands to my knowledge.  The
>>     one SSH command is in hosts.cfg and that's just to pull named.stats.
>     Correct. The script takes the command as specified, replaces the
>     the substitutable parameters by their values, executes the
>     resulting command and catches the resulting standard output.
>
>>     I did test this in (Xymon user)'s shell, it worked as expected. 
>>     I could also grab the named.stats file.
>     So, manually it works but when invoked from the script it does
>     not? Are there any messages in the logfile?
>
>     Regards,
>       Wim Nelis.
>
>
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:41 PM, William Pechter
>>     <pechter at gmail.com <mailto:pechter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Josh Luthman wrote:
>>
>>             https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds
>>             <https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:retds>
>>
>>             Has anyone installed this recently?  I went through the
>>             instructions but I think my first snag is the lack of SSH
>>             to grab the named.stats file.  Watching tcpdump on the
>>             client I get no 22/tcp traffic from the Xymon server.
>>
>>             My host entry (IP host and user changed):
>>             192.168.1.100 foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com
>>             <http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>
>>             <http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com
>>             <http://foobar.imaginenetworksllc.com>> # dns
>>             RNAMED:"cmd(ssh -T username@%{H}
>>             2>/dev/null),statsfile(named.stats)" TRENDS:*,bindstats
>>
>>             I do have an SSH trust but it's not getting that far,
>>             Xymon isn't attempting to SSH at all.
>>
>>             Josh Luthman
>>             Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
>>             Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343>
>>             1100 Wayne St
>>             Suite 1337
>>             Troy, OH 45373
>>
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>>
>>         First thought is to try to do the ssh command in the scripts
>>         manually as the Xymon user and see if it's wanting to update
>>         the known_hosts or
>>         waiting for someone to accept the remote key... etc.
>>
>>         I know it's kind of an obvious thing and you might have
>>         checked it but I've seen fun with ssh scripts like that which
>>         timeout waiting for user intervention.
>>         After a manual run it's good to go for the rest of the life
>>         or until modified.
>>
>>         Bill
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Digital had it then. Don't you wish you could buy it now!
>>         pechter-at-gmail.com <http://pechter-at-gmail.com>
>>         http://xkcd.com/705/
>>
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