RE: [Devmon] Starting problem

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

Regarding the 'ioctl' error; are you using the latest version
of Devmon?  Specifically, line 1964 of modules/dm_config.pm
should read:

if(defined($pid =3D fork)) {

as opposed to:

if(my $pid =3D fork) {


As to the power templates; the 9609 templates work on the APC=20
9617 card?  Both power and env?  If so, I'll copy them over=20
(and thanks for letting me know :)

And autodiscovery of devices depends on their contents of=20
the SNMP SysDescr.0 string; which is matched against the=20
contents of the 'sysdesc' field in the model's specs file.
You can override autodetection, however, by using the=20
'model' tag in the bb-hosts file;  please see the USING
document for further info (if it isnt in there, please=20
get the latest version of devmon).

-Eric

> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Whilding, Craig
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:24 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devmon] Starting problem
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> Excellent hobbit enhancement which will get rid of quite a=20
> few Perl scripts when I've finished writing all the templates.
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> I have been running it as a foreground process with the -f=20
> switch but without this I am also getting "Can't fork:=20
> Inappropriate ioctl for device" Forking to background process=20
> *****". This is on RHEL3 again.
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> For APC UPS's you may want to copy the power stuff over to a=20
> model 9617 as this is what all my management card equipped=20
> UPS's show as so it might be a popular one (?). They are 3000=20
> and 5000 models.=20
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> A problem I now have though is how devices are discovered as=20
> a certain type. I have a script that monitors free dhcp=20
> addresses on Windows boxes. If it just looks up model there=20
> Is nothing special about this box. Im not sure how I can get=20
> around this but I would need to put an exception in for all=20
> other windows boxes I monitor so it doesn't try to show dhcp=20
> free addresses for them.
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> Keep up the good work though :-)
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> Craig Whilding
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