Hi Mark,
I presume both laptops are on the same lan? What are the subnet masks of the Xymon server and client - also probably worth advising whether the VM host resides on the same subnet as the client laptop? I'm guessing it could be a mask issue...
Cheers, Phil
2009/11/9 Mark Whalley <Mark.Whalley at ingres.com>
Hi xymon/hobbit group
Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to set up a xymon with some success.
My setup so far. I have xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 installed and running on a Fedora 11 Virtual Machine (VMWare server 1.0.9) on a Windows XP laptop. This xymon server appears to be working correctly with it monitoring itself (bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu etc) and happily doing connectivity tests to some remote linux/aix servers that I have access to at work. So far, so good.
I now want to do some client monitoring. Initially starting with the in-built monitoring tools (cpu, disk etc), then to develop some of my own scripts (korn/born shell) to monitor my Ingres installations. To start off, I have installed xymon client on another laptop which is also running Fedora 11 (on bare metal rather than via a VM). Although the xymon server is happily pinging the client and showing green on the current status, I do not seem to be able to get it to display any of the other data.
On checking the client, I am getting “Whoops ! bb failed to send message – timeout” every 5 minutes within hobbitclient.log.
On further checking, I have found that although I can telnet and ping from the server to the client, the client is unable to even ping the server (via IP address) – it just hangs.
Server to Client:
[xymon at beziers etc]$ ping 192.168.1.69
PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.74 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.41 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.42 ms
Client to Server:
[xymon at lecroisic client]$ ping 192.168.174.129
PING 192.168.174.129 (192.168.174.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
Thinking it might be a firewall issue, I have temporarily disabled all firewall protection on both client and server, and even disabled the firewall on Windows XP (within which the VMawre Server is running the xymon server) – but with no success.
This unfortunately is where my networking knowledge fails me (and thus my plea for help!) and a Google search has not given me any clues (that I can understand).
Any thoughts?
Regards
Mark