Bug 17846

Advisory uploaded.

Whiteboard: (none) => advisory

Having a look at this.  It is a network monitoring service of some kind.  That is all I know yet.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

mga5  x86_64  Mate

Googling revealed that this is a server and network monitoring tool, formerly
Hobbit, which keeps all its configuration files in one place and uses a
browser for display.  For security reasons it is recommended that an isolated
userid be created for xymon (i.e. not a member of any other groups), ignored
for this test.  
URLs:
http://xymon.sourceforge.net

Installed xymon and captured the introductory text.
$ urpmq -f xymon
xymon-4.3.17-5.mga5.x86_64

Edited the XYMONSERVERS entry in /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client.
Replace the empty string by a space-separated list of the IP addresses of the LAN nodes to be monitored and optionally set CLIENTHOSTNAME.
Ran a check that the service could start 
# systemctl start xymon.service
# systemctl status xymon.service
â xymon.service - Xymon systems and network monitor
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/xymon.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2016-03-02 18:57:02 GMT; 15s ago
     Docs: man:xymon(7)
           man:xymonlaunch(8)
           man:xymon(1)
 Main PID: 11949 (xymonlaunch)
   CGroup: /system.slice/xymon.service
           ââ11949 /usr/sbin/xymonlaunch --no-daemon --log=/var/log/xymon/xym...
           ââ11955 xymond --restart=/var/lib/xymon/tmp/xymond.chk --checkpoin...
           ââ12067 /bin/sh
           ââ12069 vmstat 300 2
           ââ12076 xymond_channel --channel=stachg xymond_history
           ââ12077 xymond_channel --channel=page xymond_alert --checkpoint-fi...
           ââ12078 xymond_channel --channel=client xymond_client
           ââ12079 xymond_channel --channel=status xymond_rrd --rrddir=/var/l...
           ââ12080 xymond_channel --channel=data xymond_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib...
           ââ12081 xymond_channel --channel=clichg xymond_hostdata
           ââ12087 xymond_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/xymon/rrd
           ââ12088 xymond_history

Mar 02 18:57:02 vega xymoncmd[11949]: 2016-03-02 18:57:02 Using default env...fg
# systemctl stop xymon.service

At this point the web server needs to be configured for the xymon user but I have no idea how to approach this.  The documentation mentions various files that need to be configured but I don't see them on this system.  Like
~/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf 
For xymon configuration the example xml file refers to /usr/local/xymon/...
The default here appears to be /usr/share/xymon/... but where are the apache
configuration files?

I can test this one on Mageia infra tomorrow.

CC: (none) => tmb

Might be better.  Hoping you are keeping well Thomas.

Answering my question, apache?
The conf files are here of course:
# locate http | grep conf
/data/lcl/.kde4/share/config/kio_httprc
/etc/asterisk/http.conf
/etc/gconf/schemas/system_http_proxy.schemas
/etc/httpd/conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d
/etc/httpd/conf/conf.d
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/magic
/etc/httpd/conf/modules.d
/etc/httpd/conf/sites.d
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts.d
/etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d

Tested on:
Mageia release 5 (Official) for x86_64

Package(s) Under Test:
  xymon-4.3.17-5.1.mga5.x86_64

Package(s) Testing Pre Upgrade:
  % sudo urpmf xymon
  Package xymon-4.3.17-5.mga5.x86_64 is already installed

  % sudo htpasswd -c /etc/xymon/xymonpasswd admin
  % sudo chown apache:apache xymonpasswd
  % sudo chmod 640 xymonpasswd

  % sudo service xymon restart
  % sudo service httpd restart

  Visited http://localhost/xymon and the site came up, monitoring only my local system. Poked around a little though there is little to do with a new install and only one server. Everything is working with the out of the box configuration. I couldn't seem to get the http://locahost/xymon-seccgi/ scripts to work so I'm not sure I got the authentication setup properly.

Package(s) Testing Upgrade:
  % sudo urpmi xymon
  Package xymon-4.3.17-5.1.mga5.x86_64 is already installed

  Visited http://localhost/xymon again and confirmed I was not using a cache. Everything still was working and I was able to mark a service as being under maintenance. Again, nothing within http://localhost/xymon-seccgi/ is working, internal server errors.

Kernal Version:
  4.1.15-desktop-2.mga5 x86_64

Hardware Information:
  Description: Desktop Computer
  Product: Virtual Machine
  Vendor: Microsoft Corporation

CC: (none) => dpremy

Thanks David, don't forget to add the OK if you're happy with it.

I'm not too sure I was ok with the test as I think the xymon-seccgi is where this bug lives in the first place. I posted this mostly for others to have a process to install from and get it running, hopefully with the authentication portion figured out.

Adding feedback for a confirmation. tmb please see comment 6 when you get a chance. Thanks.

Whiteboard: advisory => advisory feedback

Any sysadmin please. Thanks.

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Validating based on Davids tests.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: advisory feedback => advisory mga5-64-ok

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0177.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED