I am using InflueDB 1.8 having just checked InfluxDB 1.12 is available, so you 1.11 should be OK.
Have you created a database for njmon inside InfluxDB?
influx
> show databases
> create database njmon
> show databases
> exit
So far, you are treating InfluxDB as a blackbox i.e throwing stuff into it and expecting Grafana to work.
But it is fairly simple to have a look inside influxdb
influx
> show databases
# we are looking for a database called njmon
> use njmon
>show measurements
# looking for a long list of measurements like
- cpuinfo
- cpus
- disks
- filesystems
- . . .etc
# lets check the data records are in there
> select COUNT(datetime) from timstamp
- # I get
- # name: timestamp
- # time count
- # ---------
- # 0 5066
- # the 5066 is the number of records
# lets look at one record
> select LAST(*) from timestamp
# and you should get five lines of output which covers the column names and the data, which are time stamps and some timing numbers.
More interesting data that is used by Grafana for the graphs is
> select LAST(*) from cpus
> select LAST(*) from proc_meminfo
> select LAST(*) from networks
# Warning running
> select * from cpus
Will dump all the data found - in my case, many 1000's records. In your case, just a few 100 (hopefully).
But it might take an hour or two to scroll all the lines of data.
If there is no data = problem with njmon/nimon.
- In which case, I will ask you to save a dozen records to a file and send it to me.
If there is data in the InfluxDB database, then the problem is Grafana, or the Grafana Datasource definition, or the selected Grafana time range.
Let me know how you got on.
------------------------------
Nigel Griffiths - IBM retired
London, UK
@mr_nmon
------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: Mon January 12, 2026 05:44 AM
From: Bradley Wells
Subject: njmon / nimon
Hi Nigel,
Thank you for your help and hard work on this.
So here's my setup, all hosted on same vm,
- OEL 9.7 virtual machine (VMware ESXi)
- InfluxDB shell version: v1.11.8
- grafana-7.3.6-1.x86_64
- njmon_linux_v91_binaries.zip
I modified /etc/*release files so that the 'ninstall' command would complete without errors.
It looks like ninstall copied correct binary into /usr/loca/bin - njmon_Oracle_Linux_Server9_x86_64_v91
nimon -s 30 -k -i localhost -p 8086 -x njmon -n -v is running
Grafana is up on port 3000. Influx has db created called - njmon
ps -ef shows processes running for influxdb and grafana.
I can logon to http://x.x.x.x:3000 admin / admin
Choose dashboard - njmon for AIX Simple Six v64
Just no data is populated and no host is shown on the top left drop down on the dashboard.
Process output from -v flag
push complete
push() NIMON socket influx_version=1 Data size=18672
InfluxDB Header buffer size=84 buffer=
==========
<POST /write?db=njmon&u=&p= HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8086
Content-Length: 18672
>
==========
Written=18672 bytes sent=0 total=18672
received bytes=250 data=<HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Type: application/json
Request-Id: 446df773-efa3-11f0-8897-005056979145
X-Influxdb-Build: OSS
X-Influxdb-Version: v1.11.8
X-Request-Id: 446df773-efa3-11f0-8897-005056979145
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:41:35 GMT
Kind regards,
Brad
------------------------------
Bradley Wells
Original Message:
Sent: Sun January 11, 2026 01:24 PM
From: Nigel Griffiths
Subject: njmon / nimon
I now have Oracle Linux Server 10 running under VirtualBox.
After a Makefile change to take out the spaces in the NAME from /etc/*ease so "Oracle Linux Server" becomes "OracleLinux", it compiled the first time.
More importantly, nimon works fine and sends the statistics to InfluxDB over a network.
For the record, I am running InfluxDB 1.8 on Ubuntu 24.04 (on VirtualBox) and Grafana (latest) on Windows 11, which is hosting VirtualBox.
Some notes:
- In /etc/*ease Oracle Linux says: ID_LIKE="Fedora"
- Oracle VirtualBox running Oracle Linux has bad mouse problems - ironically, as they are both from Oracle.
- Changing the VirtualBox setting for the mouse support from PS/2 to "USB Tablet" fixes this issue
------------------------------
Nigel Griffiths - IBM retired
London, UK
@mr_nmon
Original Message:
Sent: Tue December 30, 2025 06:24 AM
From: Bradley Wells
Subject: njmon / nimon
Hi All,
Has anyone successfully got njmon / nimon running on Oracle Enterprise Linux please?
Kind regards,
Brad
------------------------------
Bradley Wells
------------------------------