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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:

I have installed Hobbit on a Dell R-610 on CentOS 5.4.

I have installed Net:SNMP so that I can query a MIB.

I am looking for a good setup guide/HOW-TO to integrate a test to controlling an ICON on a device.

I must be searching in the archive for the wrong string.

I want to test a MIB or MIBs and then trigger a change in the ICON red, yellow, green

    e.g. temperature of a device, or reserve power in a UPS

I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon server.

It seems that it can read the bb-hosts file to find the devices to monitor.

But then again, I read that you have to edit a configuration file for the device and the test to run.

I could not find a good testing info source of the options that are available.

If you use the config file does it then only test the devices in the configs file vs. the bb-hosts file?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

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On Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:13:36 d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com wrote:

I have installed Hobbit on a Dell R-610 on CentOS 5.4.

I have installed Net:SNMP so that I can query a MIB.

I am looking for a good setup guide/HOW-TO to integrate a test to controlling an ICON on a device.

What do you mean by "ICON" ?

I must be searching in the archive for the wrong string.

I want to test a MIB or MIBs and then trigger a change in the ICON red, yellow, green

e.g. temperature of a device, or reserve power in a UPS

Can you be more specific about the "device" ?

E.g, there are templates for a number of UPS models shipped with devmon.

I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon server.

What distro?

If Mandriva or RHEL/CentOS, there are packages, quick installation is documented here:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorC...

It seems that it can read the bb-hosts file to find the devices to monitor.

But then again, I read that you have to edit a configuration file for the device and the test to run.

At present, devmon doesn't utilise the information in the MIB files, instead it uses templates. A number of templates are shipped in the devmon templates release.

I could not find a good testing info source of the options that are available.

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If you use the config file does it then only test the devices in the configs file vs. the bb-hosts file?

After adding a device to bb-hosts, you need to run devmon --readbbhosts (or 'service devmon readbbhosts) to get devmon to poll the device, trying to identify it from it's sysDescr. If it matches it to a template, it stores the device, model, options etc. in an internal file (which you should not modify, but you can view partially with 'strings').

Have you read the devmon documentation?

Regards, Buchan