Re: [Devmon] Weathermap Status? (using Xymon latest)

[<wis...@ho...>]

> From: bgmilne
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:10:32 wis...@ho... wrote:
>> Buchan;
>>
[...]
>>> 2. Within the weathermap.conf, BB is defined
>
> There is no BB in weathermap.conf. If you mean in the weathermap script, if
> the script is run by xymon (or, in a xymon shell environment, e.g. under
> bbcmd), the environment variable from the xymon environment is used. So ...
> this shouldn't matter. Did you actually have a problem here?

Yes, you are right, it's BB in the script.  I am running weathermap from within my hobbitlaunch, once per minute.  I am noticing that some files are created as root ownership, otherwise no problem, just trying to understand this more.

>> as the bb that lives in the
>> ~xymon/client and not the ~xymon/server directory, was this an oversight?
>> Does it matter?
>
> This could be run anywhere, my packages for xymon have the server require the
> client, and no binaries are duplicated (which violates packaging standards),
> so the best place to find bb is under the client directory ...

Thanks, I've tried both, different size binaries, and they both produce the same results.

>> 3. I've added weathermap to my hobbitlaunch.cfg as follows:
>>
>> [weathermap]
>> ENVFILE $BBHOME/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>> CMD $BBHOME/ext/weathermap
>> LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/weathermap.log
>> INTERVAL 1m
>>
>> Looks OK?

By the way, I must have my CONFIG settings wrong in the weathermap script, I had to change the above to:

CMD $BBHOME/ext/weathermap -c /FULL/PATH/TO-XYMON/etc/weathermap.conf

The weathermap.png is not being created automatically in the correct place as a result and using $BBHOME/etc/weathermap.conf did not work :-(

>>
>> 4. What is ICONDIR? Is it the same as the weathermap/images directory? I
>> have mine set as:
>>
>> $ICONDIR = "$ENV{'BBHOME'}/etc/weathermap";
>
> Whereever you have the images referred to in your weathermap config files with
> the ICON statements.

Since the example weathermap.conf locations for the images were already prefixed with images, I've just pointed this at the www/weathermap directory.  I will cleanup the .conf later and remove this, then repoint back to www/weathermap/images.  Thanks!

>> Yet, I have no such directory or file. Should I create one?
>
> Copy the images directory from the source tarball there?

Yes, the name ICON had confused me a bit, got it working as above.

On a side-note, I've noticed that my weathermap/index.html page when created, contains some extraneous characters, the top of the page contains:

Content-type: text/html

This is hidden by the java menu from Xymon.

And I am seeing a "\n" in the left middle-left side of the HTML output, which I've tracked to this in the HTML source:


<table border=0>
<tr>
<td><a href="weathermap.html"><img src="weathermap.png" width="100%" height="100%" border="0"></a></td>
</table>\n<BR><BR>



By the way, I am using Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2

Regards again,

.vadim