I'm trying to evaluate NetXMS for a small network, and I'm having a remarkable amount of trouble getting going - primarily (I think) due to a lack of examples or documentation of early-on issues. I have looked at:
- the Server Installation Guide: https://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/Server_Installation_Guide
- the user manual
- the administrator guide
I managed to get the server compiled and (I think?) running on a FreeBSD host in Amazon EC2 (just trying it out, you know), and I want to test drive the management console on MacOS. That is, I think I do. I haven't seen a lot of discussion about "this is what the management console does" and "this is how you connect it to the server", so I'm having to do a lot of guessing.
Since I'm just test-driving at this point, I built things for SQLite, to minimize complexity. I have the agent and the server (I think? there is no good description of what I'm supposed to have running that I can find) running on the FreeBSD host thus:
/usr/local/bin/netxmsd -D 9
/usr/local/bin/nxagentd -D 9
(I added debugging once I realized I wasn't getting anywhere)
From what I've gleaned from the docs, I had *thought* that port 4700 was the primary port used by the management console, so I added the IP my management console maps to into MasterServers in /etc/nxagentd.conf - but I can't actually see any indication that it's actually trying to connect from the MacOS client. If I telnet to port 4700 on the server, I see a connection message in the debug output, but not otherwise. Seems like I'm missing something crucial.
Is there a walkthrough of initial setups somewhere? This seems much more frustrating than it needs to be. Troubleshooting tips especially appreciated, or "here's how to get started using it" - all the docs I see seem to gloss over the basic "I've never touched this software before" steps. :/
- the Server Installation Guide: https://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/Server_Installation_Guide
- the user manual
- the administrator guide
I managed to get the server compiled and (I think?) running on a FreeBSD host in Amazon EC2 (just trying it out, you know), and I want to test drive the management console on MacOS. That is, I think I do. I haven't seen a lot of discussion about "this is what the management console does" and "this is how you connect it to the server", so I'm having to do a lot of guessing.
Since I'm just test-driving at this point, I built things for SQLite, to minimize complexity. I have the agent and the server (I think? there is no good description of what I'm supposed to have running that I can find) running on the FreeBSD host thus:
/usr/local/bin/netxmsd -D 9
/usr/local/bin/nxagentd -D 9
(I added debugging once I realized I wasn't getting anywhere)
From what I've gleaned from the docs, I had *thought* that port 4700 was the primary port used by the management console, so I added the IP my management console maps to into MasterServers in /etc/nxagentd.conf - but I can't actually see any indication that it's actually trying to connect from the MacOS client. If I telnet to port 4700 on the server, I see a connection message in the debug output, but not otherwise. Seems like I'm missing something crucial.
Is there a walkthrough of initial setups somewhere? This seems much more frustrating than it needs to be.
Troubleshooting tips especially appreciated, or "here's how to get started using it" - all the docs I see seem to gloss over the basic "I've never touched this software before" steps. :/