FahMon 2.3.0

shadowscotland · 11 Sep 2007 at 13:23

uncle_fungus said:
which you can just cat in your ssh session.

Was that surposed to make sence,
say shh to a cat and boo to a goose

And yes file is in image folder :confused:

Edit: Ah! - well now I know how, just not why

I installed in new location but re-used my desktop shortcut (amending the path) so it was runing Fahmon 2.3.0 but with the config/doc/images/xyz folders of my 2.2.0 image...
Just created a new shortcut and needed to add clients (no benchmarks no error)
- downloading new projects still works btw

Edit: The storing of benchmark data is independent of whether there is a valid projects database. FahMon has been doing it silently while you haven't been watching

Don't give me that - I'm not THAT silly

shadowscotland · 11 Sep 2007 at 13:24

- pesty QR

uncle_fungus · 11 Sep 2007 at 14:03

shadowscotland said:
Was that surposed to make sence,
say shh to a cat and boo to a goose

BTI will know what I mean, it makes perfect sense if you know Linux

shadowscotland said:
And yes file is in image folder

Edit: Ah! - well now I know how, just not why
I installed in new location but re-used my desktop shortcut (amending the path) so it was runing Fahmon 2.3.0 but with the config/doc/images/xyz folders of my 2.2.0 image...
Just created a new shortcut and needed to add clients (no benchmarks no error)
- downloading new projects still works btw

Well at least i wasn't my fault then

shadowscotland said:
Don't give me that - I'm not THAT silly

Ask a silly question...

shadowscotland · 11 Sep 2007 at 14:22

I very rarely is your fault

And many thanks for the new version, it running great and your hours and effort is very much apreacheated. As is your humour

Watch this space I'll be trying to install it into Ubuntu later (always good for a laugh

)

uncle_fungus · 11 Sep 2007 at 14:50

Well assuming you've got Feisty Fawn installed there are two options for you.
Click-and-go with the deb file, or compile from source, the GNU way.

The good news is you no longer need to use any stupid scripts to get fahmon to launch properly, you can just run "fahmon" from your run dialog. Which makes it a lot easier to setup desktop shortcuts too.

shadowscotland · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:00

It was easier that I thought last time, so we'll see how much of a pigs ear I can make of it this time

If I only had the time to actually 'understand' what I was doing - instead of just following blindly I'm sure I'd not need to ask so many silly questions.

Oh well if all goes well, I'm probable moving jobs soon (cuts my commute by a hour each way) so that's an extra 9h a week with my son and one for other stuff

(if I can limit the wife's facebook addiction that is :eek:

)

Oh and one more thing - what and where is the run dialog, don't think i've used that yet

uncle_fungus · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:10

shadowscotland said:
It was easier that I thought last time, so we'll see how much of a pigs ear I can make of it this time

If I only had the time to actually 'understand' what I was doing - instead of just following blindly I'm sure I'd not need to ask so many silly questions.

Oh well if all goes well, I'm probable moving jobs soon (cuts my commute by a hour each way) so that's an extra 9h a week with my son and one for other stuff (if I can limit the wife's facebook addiction that is )

Oh and one more thing - what and where is the run dialog, don't think i've used that yet

Press Alt-F2 and you'll get your run dialog.

The details of the process are actually quite simple.
"./configure" does exactly that. It checks the tools you need and configures the sources ready to compile
"make" compiles the source files
"sudo make install" installs the compiled files.

Snapshot · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:33

Windows version now installed on main PC here and on server at school. Like Jaric, I installed over the old version and it seems fine so far. The server instance is even monitoring one client that's in a different domain, over an ADSL link.

Cob · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:47

Installed and monitoring my Ubuntu SMP clients in x64 Vista here perfectly.

Thanks uncle_fungus

shadowscotland · 11 Sep 2007 at 21:52

broke it - again - used this, Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64 was that right (what's the i386 version?)

well I say I broke it - something happened - looked like an instilation occured - but no idea where it went

Alt F2 worked - but typed in the ./configure but it said
Could not open location 'file:///./configure' I'm guessing that I've missed something.

Off to break ubuntu some more......

@ UF next time you issue a release, mail me the draft and I'll see if it noob proof - can't even find the help SB talked about let alone follow it

Edit: did it the old way with SB guide - but it's still not working (must be more that just changing 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 and can find the Fahmon.exe file in the new FahMon-2.3.0/src folder - think I've broken scons too - oh well theirs alway my DD install to fold with

Cob · 11 Sep 2007 at 22:26

i386 is the 32bit version.

uncle_fungus · 12 Sep 2007 at 00:32

Hehe I love it when people read the instructions

If you installed the .deb file (AMD64 for 64bit versions of ubuntu and i386 for the x86 versions) it is already compiled for you. All you need to do is hit Alt-F2 and then type "fahmon"

If you want to compile from source, the old instructions won't work.
The new instructions (simply) are:
extract the tar.bz2 archive.
cd into the extracted folder
run "./configure"
if no errors run "make"
if no errors run "sudo make install"

uncle_fungus · 12 Sep 2007 at 02:12

Biffa said:
Or even better get it to write out html files so we can monitor our machines remotely

It's funny you should mention that. I've just been fiddling around with some CSS and jscript, and managed to put this together:

http://fahmon.fahinfo.org/web_output.html

Hint, click the top two clients.

It's a static page, its not actually being generated by fahmon, and all the data is random rubbish (which is why only two of the clients actually show anything in the side pane and why there's an obvious mistake in the client list.).
It looks best in firefox, although it will still work in IE (well it does in IE6 at least).

shadowscotland · 12 Sep 2007 at 07:11

uncle_fungus said:
Hehe I love it when people read the instructions

I would if i knew where they were (still don't btw)

uncle_fungus said:
If you installed the .deb file (AMD64 for 64bit versions of ubuntu and i386 for the x86 versions) it is already compiled for you. All you need to do is hit Alt-F2 and then type "fahmon"

Only installed the AMD64 fike but the alt-F2 didn't work (no error just box closed and nothing happened
tried it on desktop and in fahmon-2.3.0 folder

uncle_fungus said:
If you want to compile from source, the old instructions won't work.
The new instructions (simply) are:
extract the tar.bz2 archive.
cd into the extracted folder
run "./configure"
if no errors run "make"
if no errors run "sudo make install"

Result! - I think I'll stick to the terminal, that was really easy. Made a link to the Fahmon.exe, moved it to the desttop and fahmon is just a double click away (no more silly confirmation pop up

)

If that last paragraph is in the 'help' them its officall shadowscotland proof (but tell the world where the help is first - in syllables of one or less

) SB put it perfectly

SiriusB said:
Never, ever assume! Especially not with this lot

Biffa · 12 Sep 2007 at 13:08

uncle_fungus said:
It's funny you should mention that. I've just been fiddling around with some CSS and jscript, and managed to put this together:

http://fahmon.fahinfo.org/web_output.html

Hint, click the top two clients.

It's a static page, its not actually being generated by fahmon, and all the data is random rubbish (which is why only two of the clients actually show anything in the side pane and why there's an obvious mistake in the client list.).
It looks best in firefox, although it will still work in IE (well it does in IE6 at least).

Nice! The only one I have looked at in the past was http://fahstats.sourceforge.net/

uncle_fungus · 12 Sep 2007 at 14:37

Biffa said:
Nice! The only one I have looked at in the past was http://fahstats.sourceforge.net/

Yeah, I used to use FahStats about 3 years ago.

If I integrate this web page into fahmon I'll probably provide two versions. The fancy one I'm working on now, and a no-frills "data only" version.

Biffa · 12 Sep 2007 at 16:59

Sounds good Unk

uncle_fungus · 12 Sep 2007 at 22:35

Biffa said:
Sounds good Unk

The good news is that the fancy version appears to integrate nicely, I've got it running here already. You can't sort the columns, but I reckon I can use some jscript to get that working (it ignores all sorting and lists the clients by their ID in the client table).

Biffa · 13 Sep 2007 at 00:18

Just something to monitor remotely is dandy.

SiriusB · 13 Sep 2007 at 01:54

I think I broke it...

FahMon 2.3.0 says my client has hung. Previous version says everything is fine...

Tried reloading, changing "Ignore asynchronus clocks" setting, removing client and adding it back... It's not playing ball!

Gonnna try recompiling/installing!

EDIT: nope didn't work. The AMD64 .deb package doesn't seem to work either... running "fahmon" in the terminal after installing says the command no exist.

EDIT 2: Completely nuked all trace of FahMon then recompiled from scratch. Is working now... but will it fall over again I wonder........