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sme9admin for SME Server

for a sme 7 version check sme7admin

for a sme 8 version check sme8admin

Maintainer

Unnilennium

Daniel B. from Firewall Services

stephdl Stéphane de Labrusse AKA Stephdl

Description

• sme9admin is a graphical monitor, alert raising, and services supervision tool for your SME 9 Server.
• It adds a headline + several subpages to the server-manager.

Installation

Install from the stephdl and epel repositories, issue the following command on the SME Server shell:

yum install smeserver-sme9admin --enablerepo=stephdl,epel

then

 signal-event sme9admin-update

or if you want to restart your server

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

Sensor detection

Detect the sensors on your mainboard, (run as root)

/usr/sbin/sensors-detect

For my mainboard, I just hit enter for all questions, which then uses the defaults which can be seen as CAPs. You will need to follow the instructions in order to add the detected sensors in rc.local to have them loaded on reboot.

Check installed versions

yum info installed smeserver-sme9admin
yum info installed sysstat
yum info installed hddtemp
yum info installed perl-rrdtool
yum info installed rrdtool

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-sme9admin

Additional information

If you connect to the SMEserver console by Putty ssh-client (or similar) you can copy and paste the commands (very convenient).

Good luck /Per

Known Problems

du -s and CPU

The du -s option allows you to have detailed information on the use of your hard drive. Unfortunately with the high volume of data in recent huge drives and/or with older slower CPUs, you should NOT use this option unless you want to see constant high CPU utilization, as this command will be launched every 5 minutes.

disabling IMAP

Disabling IMAP will fails webmail authentication. As a result, disabling IMAP will only work until new reboot or some event to be trigger. This will also make webmail fails until next reboot.

After reboot disabled IMAP will be set automatically to enabled and access to localhost.

Troubleshoot section

Here some tricks and tips to understand what is occurring if you have problem with sme9admin

• look what sysstat can collect

/usr/lib/sa/sadc 1 2 > sadc.bout
sar -A -n DEV -f sadc.bout

• look what sadf has stocked (sadf is a human readable file)

less /var/log/sarXX

XX is a number adapt it.

• look if sensors are working

sensors

sensors need to be activated first

sensors-detect

press 'enter' for all questions and reboot

• look if hddtemp is working

hddtemp /dev/sda

• rdd files

all rdd files are in /var/lib/sme9admin, which are binary files. If you want to look the dump to see what it contains

rrdtool dump /var/lib/sme9admin/sensors.rrd > /tmp/sensors.xml
less /tmp/sensors.xml

You have to do it for each file.rrd

• Logs of sme9admin

less /var/log/sme9admin.log

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-sme8admin component or use this link .

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