Re: [Devmon] devmon PID not running.

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

On Monday, 30 November 2009 14:15:46 Ambati Srinivas wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ********************************************************
> Srini: -bash-3.00# ./devmon -v
> [09-11-30@21:01:46] Forking to background process 17075
> Attached debug file for review.
> ********************************************************
> 
> > > -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
> 
> ********************************************************
> 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#

Assuming you   run devmon as the 'devmon' user:

# mkdir /var/run/devmon

# chown devmon /var/run/devmon

then try again 

> ********************************************************
> 
> > > 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
> 
> ********************************************************
> 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.
> ********************************************************

Yep, PID and log file directory creation are not covered, I will try and update 
the documentation this week.

Regards,
Buchan