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I just figured out how to edit the local Tomcat server to allow the heath check to reside on ESX4 hosts. I'm updating the current script to reflect the proper directory locations and will post it later.
The html root doc is located at "***/usr/lib/vmware/hostd/docroot***" and is called "***default.html***".
There is a line stating " ***<!-- XXX: Bug...
2009-10-01 18:57:02 UTC in ESX Healthcheck Script
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Initially I had created the user manually. Once I began seeing issues I deleted the user and purged all files. I did the install using the Debian packages. In the past I've always downloaded the files and installed manually, this time I used the packages.
Yes forcing a password change eliminated the security messages and seems to have partially fixed things. I read that the zero date...
2009-09-09 16:04:08 UTC in Big Sister
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Spoke too soon. I shut off a server so that "something" was red. (I use the big brother skin). NOW things are updating, but ONLY when there is a status change. The question is why is top.html not updating at each scan cycle.
2009-09-08 22:17:32 UTC in Big Sister
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Another oddity. Appearently there is a bug in unix/linux that relates to having 1/1/1970 as the date of last password change. forcing a password change on the bigsis account stopped the "password change required" messages.
Now i see files in /var/lib/bigsister/ graphs being updated as the deamon cycles through the systems it needs to scan. Also files in /var/lib/bigsister/www/html are...
2009-09-08 22:03:56 UTC in Big Sister
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Thomas,
The deamons appear to stay running now. Runnning "ps -aux | grep mon" results in this:
bigsis 6126 0.1 0.1 13916 9824 ? S 12:38 0:07 bsmon
bigsis 6174 0.0 0.0 9720 6076 ? S 12:38 0:00 uxmon
root 6180 0.0 0.1 10748 8832 ? S 12:38 0:00 uxmon
agent.log, display.history, and the numbered status logs in /var/lib/bigsister...
2009-09-08 21:04:33 UTC in Big Sister
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Thomas, Is there a default password that the bigsis service acount(s) uses or should there be no password? I cant locate that info in the docs. I cant recall having issues with this in the past, of course this is the first time using ubuntu as well which appears to have different security requirements than basic Debian.
2009-09-08 17:41:53 UTC in Big Sister
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Came in today to an entire purple screen. IO made copies of everything in etc/bigsister, var/livb/bigsister and then completely removed and purged BigSis from the system and reinstalled everything from scratch. I then copied all files back over to keep my settings. It appeared to be working but now seems not. Still think it's permissions somehow, just need to track it down. I see this in...
2009-09-08 17:05:17 UTC in Big Sister
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In going through the system logs I'm convinced the issue is a permissions issue. What I see now is that all daemons stop shortly after starting. Directory permissions are wide open but I think the bigsis service account does not have appropriate permissions somewhere. Odd since it did before. I'm trying to determine where bigsister gets the information to start the daemons when bb_start is...
2009-09-04 22:37:18 UTC in Big Sister
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Another update:
Seems the files are not being updated. It acts as though the service is hung. Status log do not show anything out of the ordinary. PS -a shows bsmon and uxmon running, they just arent updating. As a band-aid I'm adding a cron job to run the service reset command at a different interval from the cacti job. manually restarting the service makes things update, but just once.
2009-09-04 22:02:47 UTC in Big Sister
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Heres an update. I opened up all directory permissions to wide open. The /var/lib/bigsister directory seems to be functioning normally. The log files in it are being updated but the HTML isn't being regenerated. in the www directory.
2009-09-04 17:55:49 UTC in Big Sister
