On 2013-04-11 09:06, Danny Roberts wrote:

Hi Folks,

I am currently testing out Xymon and using Debian as both the server and client in my tests. I installed both xymon clients and the xymon server from the Debian repo rather than using the .deb from the xymon site or compiling from source. I have a couple of issues that may be Debian sepcific, I originally asked this question on the Debian forums (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=103076 [1]) but got no response.

1. I created a user using "htpasswd" so that I could access the cgi sections of the web server, however I am never prompted for a username/password so still cannot access these sections.

How did you setup you apache installation for Xymon? Sounds like you need to add authentication config for apache here.

2. I was looking for hosts.cfg to setup monitoring of diskspace and the like but the file does not exist under /etc/hobbit where I expected it. In-fact any file mentioned on this page does not seem to exist: http://xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-config.html [2]

Have a look in /usr/lib/hobbit/. Under there you will see server for the server files and client for the client files

This second point in particular makes me think Debian is doing something odd with packaging and file names etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. 

Cheers

Iain