a) I've implemented devmon, my very small and resource strapped client is very happy... I'm still in the process of working the bugs out. devmon appears to go purple (and all reports dependent on it) periodically, and then not come back... did that last time I was here, wasn't sure what caused it. Just did it a few minutes ago. Wasn't sure what caused it, and was too distracted and tired to carefully trace out what I did to fix it again (stopped, started devmon, xymon, and manually ran devmon) after it was working for most of three hours. I really need an Ubuntu specific init.d script. Ubuntu's use of upstart in hardy means that the "status" command, for instance, is dependent on stuff in /etc/event.d to work, and I really don't want to have to manually re-create all that... surely someone else is running devmon on a Debian derivative, and has a functional initialization script?
b) I've begun to implement weathermap. I'm trying to figure out a rational process for creating a map of our small network... the weathermap.conf example appears to have been generated using php-weathermap... do I really need to implement that, so I get the editor for it?
Thomas
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>wrote:
On Friday, 14 August 2009 15:08:33 mv652 at softhome.net wrote:
Hi,
Could I get a quick-and-dirty explanation regarding the Devmon implementation in Xymon 4.3.x?
Nothing has changed regarding Devmon in Xymon 4.3.x.
However, Xymon itself has some basic native SNMP support, which is new in 4.3.x.
The way I understand it, Devmon provides SNMP capabilities to Xymon so the monitoring server can poll SNMP capable devices.
How is this different to Integrating MRTF data into XYMON, for example?
Devmon only polls devices, does conversion and formatting of data, which it then sends to Xymon as a normal status message. A devmon RRD collector is now shipped with Xymon (as of 4.2.2), that allows RRD graphs to be created by Xymon for any test/template that includes data intended for this purpose (using the rrd option to the TABLE operator in the template file on the devmon side), if the test is mapped to use this collector (in the TEST2RRD variable in hobbitserver.cfg).
Besides the graphs, devmon will also change the "colour" of the tests based on thresholds, allowing you to alert on SNMP data (including non-graph data).
If I am interesting in getting bandwidth for various device interfaces, I am assuming it is best to do via Devmon rather than integrate MRTG?
I think it is probably easier to get bandwidth graphs up with Devmon than with MRTG, and alerts based on link utilisation will be available out-the-box.
Lastly, is there a readme / howto that explains devmon-xymon setup?
If you're on a distro that provides devmon, it is more or less a matter of:
$install devmon
(where install=urpmi for Mandriva, or $install="yum install" on RHEL or CentOS if you have added the repo at e.g. http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon)
vi /etc/devmon.cfg
(set your SNMP community strings in the SNMPCIDS variable, the others should have adequate defaults)
/etc/init.d/devmon readbbhosts
/etc/init.d/devmon start
If you're adventurous, you could add the weathermap (see http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/xymon/).
If you're not on a distro with packages available, please see the INSTALLATION and USING files shipped in the docs directory.
Regards, Buchan
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