NetXMS Forum

Thank you gentlemen for your replies.

I am currently in the process of switching "everything" to Docker. Unfortunately I have to learn Docker from scratch. No big deal, it's how I have learned everything. I'm loving it though! ;D Embarrassed I have not learned it up until now. Docker is INCREDIBLE!!! <embarassed egg face grin>

I came from the world of Vmware as the only acceptable way of virtualization. Virtualizing the app on top of a virtual machine is making me giggle like a little school girl. Combine that with I have developed a love affair with Debian and all feels complete in the world.

Is there any chance of a dockerized 'current' version of Netxms? If not I am planning on a headless Debian VM with Netxms installed along with docker to run all of my containers. Dockerized Netxms would be awesome though.

I'm currently running on ESXi free for my home/lab. Sorry to ask here but does anybody have any experience with Proxmox? Any good? Would you run it in a small business, say up to 100 users?

Hmmm... I checked through documentation and everything looks good for requirements. I didn't list Java version previously but here it is.

bebop@summachine:/opt/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/nxmc-5.1.3# java --version
openjdk 17.0.13 2024-10-15
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.13+11-Debian-2deb12u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.13+11-Debian-2deb12u1, mixed mode, sharing

There is no log file in /opt/tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/nxmc-5.1.3 (empty directory) and I cannot glean anything useful (not that it doesn't exist) from the Tomcat log files.

I have worked at this for over a day now and I'm totally lost. Tomcat manager is giving me the following error.

"FAIL - Application at context path [/nxmc-5.1.3] could not be started"

I've recently upgraded from Debian 11 to 12, somewhat accidentally. Huh? What? Latest kernel installing? Oh shit! Surprisingly however everything seemed to still be working. Even ended up on the latest NetXMS.

Debian:
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm

Tomcat:
bebop@summachine:/opt/tomcat/webapps# apt list tomcat10
Listing... Done
tomcat10/stable 10.1.6-1+deb12u2 all

I never was able to get the war file to work before. I can run the *,jar file client from my Debian 12 workstation but for the life of me I have never been able to get the war file working.

I'm a bit of a Linux newb and need assistance. I have loaded the war via the Tomcat web manager. I have also loaded it manually by putting it into the webapps directory. Each time I cleaned up the files and restarted tomcat "systemctl stop tomcat", clean stuff up, "systemctl start tomcat".

Help.

What about adding network configuration management?

I had started making my own. Below is the output of my config diff check. The only thing out there currently that is opensource is Rancid, Oxidized, rConfig, and a few others. I had used cattools before SolarWinds bought em up years ago and it was a major asset to network management and something that saved my bacon many times.

With NetXMS, Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager, and some form of network configuration management it'd be easy for a small staff to manage a very large swath of network infrastructure.

Something I haven't been able to figure out is why NetXMS isn't one of the first things I see when I Google for opensource network monitoring software. I had to stumble across it and then the information was sparse. Most of my introduction to NetXMS was from Tomas Kirnak on TheBrothersWISP and the training videos he made. If it wasn't for him I probably never would have dug any deeper.

After loading it up I was surprised at what it could do. It exceeded my expectations by a decent margin and I was expecting a lot, lol. Some very intuitive thinking came into play on making this program work.

After I got the server up and running on Debian I setup the management program. What!? It's portable! It have "everything" I need from Netflow to development programs running portable now (veracrypt volume on thumb drive, to abstract my apps from the workstation and, security). I was tickled pink.

I just don't get why more network/sys admins aren't using this? Too much of a learning curve?

1.  When using a map and clicking on an element I often move it accidentally. Is there a way to "lock" your finished map in place where the elements cannot be moved?

2.  Dashboard and Map element images. When I first login I see the below. After a refresh it is ok. Am I doing something wrong?

before:

after refresh:

That fixed it. Thank you for your help.

I am having an issue getting a couple elements to stack. On the first row I have columns set to '8' and elements set to 2/2,2/2,1/1,1/1,3/2 under the Layout. My assumption would be that the two elements set as 1/1 would stack vertically but they position side by side forcing me to set the last element to 2/2 instead of 3/2 for the first row. (Note:  last element not shown)

I've solved all of my problems to date without bugging you guys but I'm stumped on this. How can I fix it? Edit XML?