RE: [Devmon] problem getting devmon to work

[Schwimmer, E. E *H. <EE...@hs...>]

The documentation could be at fault.  I don't think I really mention
anywhere that the --readbbhosts flag causes Devmon to exit after
reading in the bb-hosts file.  Comments?

-Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Dan Vande More
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:37 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] problem getting devmon to work
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> Holy cow, that was the problem. I can't believe I misinterpreted that.
> Everything seems to be working now, thanks.
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> -Dan
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> On 3/1/06, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS=20
> <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=20
> directory, then it
> > should read in from that file, poll your hosts, do the=20
> 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=20
>  dont want
> > to run the devmon process on your display machine, but want=20
> 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=20
> cluster database,
> > without having to actually run devmon on the display machine.
> >
> > 2) Reading the bb-hosts file and querying the hosts takes a=20
> little while,
> > since devmon queries every host in the bb-hosts file, every=20
> 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=20
> one;  people
> > have been known to swap out devices with different=20
> vendor/models and not
> > change the bb-hosts ip or hostname).  So I didnt want this=20
> auto-discovery
> > phase to interfere with polling times.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev...@li... on behalf=20
> of Dan Vande More
> > 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=20
> 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=20
> 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=20
> messages it's
> > sending hobbit, but i'm not seeing them.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dan
> >
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