[WBEL-users] Still killing me softly with mon

Graham Purcocks grahamp@wsieurope.com
Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:58:53 +0100


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Quick idea. Can you resolve hostnames? Is your problem a DNS issue?

Jesse wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've never used mon before, but how about checking the obvious
>>things:
> 
> <comprehensive list of basic network troubleshooting steps snipped>
> 
>>	I've never run "mon", and never heard of it until this exchange
>>of e-mails.  So take all this with a grain of salt.  However, it
> 
> 
>>	If you tell me where you got "mon" from, I'd happily look into
>>seeing how it works enough to tell you if I can get the default out
>>of the box configuration to work by pining a machine.
> 
> 
> mon is a well known and widely used network monitoring program, similar to
> nagios. (which is better is largely a matter of preference). It's been
> around for many years and can be found at www.kernel.org/software/mon
> 
> mon runs quite well on whitebox -- we have our mon server on it. It's in
> perl, so the mon server itself it's terribly system/distro specific. It
> does however require a few perl libraries, including Mon::Client,
> Time::Period, Time::HiRes and Convert::BER. Specific monitor tests may
> require others.
> 
> If anyone needs anyone of those four perl modules listed above, I've built
> WBEL RPM packages for them and would be happy to share. Or you can just go
> to CPAN and build and install them.
> 
> ---
> Jesse <j@lumiere.net>
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