Cam,

It is two whole minutes between monit loading and starting opensim, I just couldn't wait that long. LOL

Well I am just going through the tutorial now (sorry I got slow).

But I see in /etc/monit/monitrc:


So Monit should check and start OpenSim immediately unless the 'start delay' is used.

Also I would think Monit has to run *after* MySql in the boot process or it could cause trouble with OpenSim.

Hello Cam. I am going through the tutorial. So far it has been a BIG help.

I noticed in the two files 'opensim' and 'opensim.conf' some of the paths used were different from what was used in the body of the tutorial.

In the 'setup()' function in opensim (http://lets3d.com/monit/opensim):
- the PID var is pointing to /var/run/opensim/${SIM}.pid instead of /home/opensim/opensim.pid" as was setup in OpenSim.ini earlier in the tutorial.
- the OPENSIM_DIR var is set to /usr/lib/opensim instead of /home/opensim as was setup earlier also.

In the opensim.conf file (http://lets3d.com/monit/opensim.conf)
- the pidfile points at /var/run/opensim/opensim.pid instead of /home/opensim/opensim.pid
- opensim is pointed at /usr/local/bin/opensim instead of /home/opensim/opensim

Also the 'opensim' file is a bash script. Shouldn't it be 'chmod +x' to be executable?

But anyway, so far the tutorial is very easy to follow and I am almost done woot! Thanks again!

Well I finished the tutorial but I have some issues to work through still.

a) monit isn't starting automatically when I reboot.

I tested the configuration with 'sudo monit -t' and everything is ok and I edited /etc/default/monit to change startup=0 to startup=1 but no start on boot.

But if I run 'sudo /etc/init.d/monit start' it will start up.

(*edit fixed* I checked in /etc/init and there is no .conf file for monit so I did the old way 'sudo update-rc.d monit enable' and now it starts at boot.)

b) Even if I run with 'sudo /etc/init.d/monit start' it never starts OpenSim. I must have something wrong with my configuration somewhere. I will check into this tomorrow more deeply.

c) I cannot connect to the httpd service at port 2812. I have the port open in the iptables firewall but the browser reports that the connection was reset when I try to access the service.

(*edit* I can connect with lynx using localhost on the ssh session 'lynx 127.0.0.1:2812 and then I input the user and password and it works)

(*edit2 fixed*) So I have to add the following line after 'set httpd port 2812 and' in /etc/monit/monitrc to get it to work from my home computer's web browser:
allow <xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
substituting the x's with my cable modem's external ip address.

Anyway so now I have to figure out why it is not starting OpenSim. I will look into it tomorrow. When I get it straightened out I will post here what I did.

Hi Fred,

Monit loads after the local file system and before mysql. If I do not use a delay it tries to load Opensim before mysql is up every time I restart. It is not a problem, just an annoyance. The Opensim init is not a necessity, it's just helping me get back online a little faster.

Fred, thanks for your feedback,
Yeah, I had my modified files with the original files and (oops) the obvious happened, I uploaded both the wrong files, so I am glad you are going thru this, it is helping me find the bugs in my tut ( I am replacing those files with the correct ones now) That sounds right, although I dont remember doing it on my system, I will add it to the tutorial.

again I didnt have to do that with my system but it is worth looking at, I may have excess perms on mine which others wouldnt have so I will look into it.
Have you tried manually starting the opensim script (as user opensim) with " ./opensim start your_sim " to see if the script actually fires your opensim process?

I am glad you found it easy to follow
thanks again for the debug
Cam

Yea it was late so I didn't try this last night, but when I ran the script manually today I see that it tries to start OpenSim.exe but fails. Turns out I missed an *important* step in your tutorial haha.

I had some files owned by root in the opensim directory so it couldn't run as user opensim. After the 'chown -R' I can now run it manually.

But Monit still wasn't starting it automatically. So I logged in to Monit with a Web Browser and it said the 'your_sim' process was 'unmonitored'.

So I pressed the button 'Enable Monitoring' and it worked! woot.

I will reboot the server now and make sure it starts up automatically.

*edit* Yep, it loaded OpenSim after boot and the region came up.

But it has an error reported in the Monit browser:

So the condition:

Causes it to restart then enventually the condition:

Causes the process to go unmonitored. So I need to figure out why jsonSimStats isn't working.

*edit fixed* In OpenSim.ini I had to uncomment the following setting under the [Network] section
(I set it to 9100 to match what is in /etc/monit/conf.d/opensim.conf)

So a few things about the support files for the monit with opensim tutorial.

/etc/monit/monitrc

allow xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - I had to add this line where the x's are the external ip of my cable modem. Couldn't connect to the web interface without that line. (Cam reports this wasn't necessary on his vps so it depends on the system)

allow localhost - not really needed but was useful to test with lynx on the ssh session

allow opensim:opensim - this is the user:password to access the monit page. *doesn't* have to be a valid linux user. It is just used by monit to allow access to the stats page. If it is left out, then anyone can access the stats without restriction.

/etc/monit/conf.d/opensim.conf

It was suggested on this other thread viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3102&start=10 that monit will not show the web page if checking jsonSimStats using localhost so I was cautious that maybe it was giving me troubles, but it seems to work fine with my version of monit. I think maybe this was an issue that was fixed with the newest monit version.

/home/opensim/bin/OpenSim.ini

It seems there are 2 consoles in OpenSim. One is a seperate console client called 'rest' (OpenSim.ConsoleClient.exe) and the other is built-in to the OpenSim server. Unless the command line option '-console=rest' is used when OpenSim is started then the built-in console is used.

If the built-in console is used (like in the monit tutorial we are following) these three options seem to have no effect: ConsoleUser, ConsolePass and console_port. They can be set to anything and monit will still connect to jsonSimStats using the http_listener_port. *BUT* if the actual lines are missing from the ini file, then monit will fail to connect to the stats. Weird.

http_listener_port - this is the setting that allowed me to connect to jsonSimStats using monit. Without it I was unable to connect.

/home/opensim/opensim
In this script there are some vars set:

Theses vars are only used in the the function do_console() and it is run if the user starts the script like this:

but this will hang because the server is started in the do_start() function without the -console=rest option. In other words that console option is meant to be used with the rest console not the built-in console.

so the CONSOLE_PORT, CONSOLE_USER and CONSOLE_PASS vars don't have any effect with this particular Monit tutorial since it is using the built-in console and they can be ignored.

Just want to say thanks again to Cam for posting the very helpful tutorial and Twisted for the suggestions also.

of course both of these lines make sense, I was doing all of this testing on localhost, so I shall include the allow external host also.
The reason for this is that in my tutorial we are using "screen" instead of the rest console, I simply neglected to point out that these lines can be ignored. Perhaps Screen is using the console_port?
I am using port 9000 for http listening and 9100 for the console and this config works on my system

Happy you got it working, I have to admit I still dont fully understand exactly what is going on here, but I learn more each time, and I have learned heaps since you have been feeding back, thanks heaps Fred and thanks again Bo and Twisted, and I have to thank Dave Coyle for his original tutorial, which got me started.
See you all in the sandbox
Cam

The newest monit version 5.4 lets you specify an 'uptime' check which is very helpful to restart the simulator every so many days (since there is some memory leaks in opensim it is recommended to restart periodically).

My server didn't have 5.4 available so I had to compile the source. The posts about it are over in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4187