Re: [Devmon] devmon PID not running.

[Ambati S. <am....@gm...>]

Hi Sir,

I have my comments as *Srini:*

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Buchan Milne <bg...@st...>wrote:

> 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.
>
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Srini: -bash-3.00# ./devmon -v
[09-11-30@21:01:46] Forking to background process 17075
Attached debug file for review.
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>
> > -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 ... I
>
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Srini: I dont see any directory /var/run/devmon/
devmon.pid

I have listed please see for review:
-bash-3.00# cd /var/run/
.inetd.uds         kcfd_door          rpc_door/          syslog.pid
apache2/           metaset.468        sendmail.pid       syslog_door
daemon/            name_service_door  smc898/
fpsdiagd_door      nfs4_domain        sshd.pid
ipsecconf.lock     picld_door         sysevent_channels/
-bash-3.00#
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>
> > 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
>
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Srini: I am following
http://devmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/devmon/trunk/docs/INSTALLATION and
which is same in /usr/local/devmon/docs/INSTALLATION in my server.

When I run ./devmon no PIDs are spawned.
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Thanks for all your help.

Srini

> sufficiently.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>