If I recall correctly a clear status is shown when Xymon hasn't received any status message for that particular test, or if it is not configured to process that particular message (using the "noconn" option for example). I would confirm that you have configured the software to check and report files, ports and procs.

I have one example where I am checking that a program called "tethereal" is running. There must be at least one of these but there can be up to 50. I am also checking that port 5901 has a VNC daemon running on it.

HOST=vsniff.FRA PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]5901)$" state=LISTEN TEXT=vnc PROC tethereal 1 50 red

To verify that this is working put these lines, or something that's going to work, in the hobbit-clients.cfg on the server. After a few minutes look in your web browser to see if this data is showing as up or down on your Xymon website, you should see some data.

I believe that this information is retrieved from the message packet that the client sends to the server, you can view this data in your web browser by clicking on any of the available test links for a given server (apart from info) and clicking on the "Client data <http://hbt0.lon.oss.colt.net/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=nms2.lon.o ss.colt.net> available" link. Once the server retrieves this data it searches the process list for the PROC entries and it searches the "netstat -a" data for the PORT entries.

As for the connection being white, hobbitping is what you have configured your Xymon server to use to check connectivity. If your hobbitping isn't able to run then connectivity cannot be checked and this is why everything is white in this column.

Do as you have been instructed and set the hobbitping program to run setuid. I believe that it should be set this way during installation so try the following:

$ ls -al /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping -rwsr-xr-x 1 root hobbit 125088 Jan 9 15:27 hobbitping

You should see the output as I have it above, however from the error message you are getting I guess you are seeing something like: -rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit hobbit 125088 Jan 9 15:27 hobbitping

So you will need to change to the root user (use sudo or su) and execute:

chown root:hobbit /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping

chmod 4755 /opt/xymon/server/bin/hobbitping

The first changes the owner to root and the second changes it so that when hobbitping is executed it is run with the root user's privileges.

HTH

|\/|artin

-----Original Message-----
From: pankaj dorlikar [mailto:pankaj.dorlikar at gmail.com] 
Sent: 07 February 2009 11:23
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] conn,files,ports and procs columns have status

as clear..help

Hi,
i am using xymon 4.2.2.RC1 for linux.In all clients and server

also i get status of conn,files,ports and procs columns status as clear always.is there any erro?How to make these colums show correct stastus? Details : conn - Hobbit system error(clear) Files- No files checked(clear) Ports-No port checks defined(clear) Procs-No process checks defined(clear)

also Execution of 'hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid

root? is shown in bbtest columcn of serevr(red)

For getting complete status of client, is it sufficient to just

copy client folder to another client and run runclient.sh ?will it give me complete status of client including extrenal tests configured for client kindly help -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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