Re: [Devmon] problem getting devmon to work

[Dan V. M. <bi...@gm...>]

Holy cow, that was the problem. I can't believe I misinterpreted that.
Everything seems to be working now, thanks.

-Dan

On 3/1/06, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS <EE...@hs...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I *think* the problem that you are having is that you are
> running devmon with the --readbbhosts flag;  this flag tells
> devmon to read the bbhosts file into the database and then quit,
> which I what I think is happening here.
>
> Try running it like this:
> ./devmon -vv -p
> (the -p flag implies -f as welli, I should probably document that :)
>
> If you've previously run devmon with the --readbbhosts flag, and
> devmon has created the hosts.db file in the devmon directory, then it
> should read in from that file, poll your hosts, do the logic, and spit
> out your message.
>
> The design reasoning behind the --readbbhosts flag, and why I didnt
> just make devmon read the bbhosts file every poll cycle, is twofold
> (you can probably skip reading this, I just like typing):
>
> 1) The fact that running a multi-node cluster, you probably  dont want
> to run the devmon process on your display machine, but want to farm it
> out to dedicated devmon polling servers.  The readbbhosts flag makes
> it so that you can import your bb-hosts file into the cluster database,
> without having to actually run devmon on the display machine.
>
> 2) Reading the bb-hosts file and querying the hosts takes a little while,
> since devmon queries every host in the bb-hosts file, every time (making
> no assumptions as to whether hosts that were there during the last
> auto-discovery are the same hosts that are there on this one;  people
> have been known to swap out devices with different vendor/models and not
> change the bb-hosts ip or hostname).  So I didnt want this auto-discovery
> phase to interfere with polling times.
>
> -Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... on behalf of Dan Vande M=
ore
> Sent: Wed 3/1/2006 4:18 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devmon] problem getting devmon to work
>
> My devmon is close, but still not working. Here's what I've done:
>
> Made a new template for a cisco 7609, just changed the spec, is about
> all - it's just like a 6509.
>
> Put devmon next to the appropriate line in bb-hosts, like this:
>
> <ip>     gsr-east.domain # ssh !telnet DEVMON
>
> Configured my devmon.cfg:
>
> MULTINODE=3DNO
> BBHOSTS=3D/home/monitor/server/etc/bb-hosts
> BBTAG=3DDEVMON
> SNMPCIDS=3Dmycid,public,private
> NODENAME=3DHOSTNAME
> PIDFILE=3D/var/run/devmon/devmon.pid
> LOGFILE=3D/var/log/hobbit/devmon.log
> DBHOST=3Dlocalhost
> DBNAME=3Ddevmon
> DBUSER=3Ddevmon
> DBPASS=3Ddevmon
> BBTYPE=3Dhobbit
> DISPSERV=3Dlocalhost
> DISPPORT=3D1984
> MSGSIZE=3D8096
> MSGSLEEP=3D10
> CYCLETIME=3D60
> DEADTIME=3D180
> CLEARTIME=3D180
> NUMFORKS=3D10
> MAXPOLLTIME=3D30
> SNMPTIMEOUT=3D2
> SNMPTRIES=3D5
>
> And run this:
>
> $ sudo -u monitor ./devmon -vvvvv -p -f --readbbhosts
> [06-03-01@15:15:32] SNMP querying all hosts in bb-hosts file, please wait=
...
> [06-03-01@15:15:32] Querying pre-existing hosts
> [06-03-01@15:15:32] Discovered gsr-east.domain as a cisco 7609
>
> And that's all I get. I thought I'd be getting the same messages it's
> sending hobbit, but i'm not seeing them.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
>
>
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