Re: [Devmon] need help with initial devmon/hobbit setup - no matching template

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Thursday 14 May 2009 17:04:22 joh...@ac... wrote:
> I have just installed devmon along with xymon and have xymon working
> fine.  I have installed devmon and I am having trouble setting up my
> first host which is a win2000 server.  I have snmp setup on the client
> to accept connections from my devmon server and can confirm that by
> running devmon in verbose debug mode.  I get a sysdesc that matches the
> sysdesc from the system (kratos):
>
> root@161mon:/home/xymon/devmon# ./devmon -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv --debug
> -readbbhosts
> ...
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] DEBUG SNMP: 1
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] DEBUG SNMP: 0 => 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] DEBUG SNMP: Adding ID => 1 OID =>1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] DEBUG SNMP: Pooling 1 oids
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] DEBUG SNMP: Dethawing data for kratos
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] kratos sysdesc = ::: Hardware: x86 Family 6 Model 10
> Stepping 1 AT/AT COMPATIBLE - Software: Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build
> 2195 Multiprocessor Free) :::
>
> But the next line after that is:
> [09-05-14@09:25:31] No matching templates for device: kratos
>
> Within devmon/templates/kratos I have the file specs that looks like:
>
> vendor  : Microsoft
> model   : Win2k
> snmpver : 2
> sysdesc : "Hardware: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 1 AT/AT COMPATIBLE -
> Software: Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195 Multiprocessor Free)"

Devmon treats the string after sysdesc as a regular expression, so you have to 
be careful with any non-alphanumeric characters, but you also don't need to 
match the whole string, just enough to be unique ...

Note that you can specify the template to use in the bb-hosts file.

I have been monitoring a few Windows 2003 servers with devmon, you may want to 
look at the template I just committed in svn:

http://devmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/devmon/trunk/templates/microsoft-
win2k3server/

However, this template will (for now) only work if you set it explicitly in 
bb-hosts with DEVMON:model(microsoft;win2k3server)

However, please make a copy of it, renamed to e.g. microsoft-win2kserver, and 
change the sysdesc to be just:

sysdesc: Windows 2000 Version 5.0

and see if devmon will pick it up without manually setting it.

Regards,
Buchan