Re: [Devmon] devmon PID not running.

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

On Monday, 30 November 2009 09:40:31 Ambati Srinivas wrote:
> *Hi Guys,
> 
> Please, Please help me out.
> 
> I have installed Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on Sun Solaris* *(SunOS bsma06 5.10
> Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R), I had successful
> installation. I had installed Devmonn-0.3.0. and SNMP_Session-1.13 also to
> monitor few network devices (Cisco Switches and routers). however when I
> grep for devmon no PID shows up as shown below:

You didn't state that you had attempted to start it. If it does not start, the 
recommended route would be to look at the options it supports (by providing 
the --help option). Specifically, -v or --debug may help.

> -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep devmon
>     root  6849  3708   0 14:06:33 pts/1       0:00 grep devmon
> -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep Devmon
>     root  6858  3708   0 14:06:42 pts/1       0:00 grep Devmon
> -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep DEVMON
>     root  6897  3708   0 14:07:01 pts/1       0:00 grep DEVMON
> 
> As shown in devmon.cfg
> # PIDFILE: Sets the full path to the Devmon process ID file.  The directory
> # containing this file should be read/writable by the user running the
> Devmon
> # process. (case sensitive) [DEFAULT: /var/run/devmon/devmon.pid]
> PIDFILE=/var/run/devmon/devmon.pid

Does this directory exist, and is it writeable by the user devmon runs as? If 
not, it *should* log this to the log file, *if* it has permission to write to 
the log file. In 0.3.1-beta1 I think I fixed it to log to the console if it 
could not open the log file ...

> Please let me know what more details you may require.
> 
> some info I am providing: I manually changed owner and group of files to
> root:root, earlier they were 501:501, which I didn't understand.

It is your responsibility to ensure correct ownership of file extracted from a 
tarball. This is however another reason for me to consider providing a make 
file just to provide an install target.

> /usr/local/**devmo**n
> -bash-3.00$ ls -l
> total 86
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         836 Nov 30 14:51 @!:
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        9001 Apr  3  2008 CHANGELOG
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       15122 Apr  3  2008 COPYING
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        4935 Apr  3  2008 README
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        1153 Apr  3  2008 devmon
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        5999 Nov 30 14:08 devmon.cfg
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Apr  3  2008 docs
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Apr  3  2008 extras
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         119 Nov 30 15:01 hosts.db
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Apr  3  2008 modules
> drwxr-xr-x  40 root     root        1024 Apr  3  2008 templates
> -bash-3.00$
> 
> Thanks so much.

It would help me if you could tell me what documentation you were following, 
so that I can improve it to address any areas that were not covered 
sufficiently.

Regards,
Buchan