[Xymon] Issues after upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5

[Martin Flemming]

Hi, Ryan !

I've got till one hour before the same issues and was completley unlucky like you :-(

Unfortunatley i didn't know how i  solve it but now it runs like a charme ...

But i think it was something with xymonlaunch and the start-script ...

Please debug the scripts

  /etc/init.d/xymon and 
/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh

with set -x and watch the logfiles

maybe & hopefully it helps ..

cheers,
 	martin

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Ryan Skadberg wrote:

> Any help here?  I've tried a number of different things to attempt to solve these on my own, but nothing has worked.  Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Skadz
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ryan Skadberg <skadz at skadz.com> wrote:
>       Hi All -
>   I've been running hobbit/xymon for a long time, but I've finally just joined the list due to a number of issues after I
> upgraded from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5.  I walked through and fixed all the file names and everything SEEMS ok, but am seeing a number
> of strange things:
> 
> a) When I start up xymon, I don't get my previous state back.  The xymond options have:
> 
> --restart=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> 
> And the files has data:
> 
> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> 
> But when I restart the server or service, I seem to lose all data and anything that has been disabled or acked is now once
> again back to it's starting state.
> 
> b) I can't seem to add new machines.  I add a machine to hosts.cfg and analysis.cfg and it shows up on the web page, but it
> never seems to actually receive any data.  I've tried reloading the service, but that doesn't seem to help.  I even tried
> something like:
> 
> xymon localhost 'enable machine.company.com'
> 
> But it did not help.  I see on the Ghost client page that it seems to recognize the correlation as it has a candidate, but
> isn't doing anything.  Do I need to do something different with this newer version to enable a machine instead of just adding
> it to the two files?
> 
> c) Last issue is very similar to the previous issue.  I removed a machine from the hosts.cfg file, then ran:
> 
> xymon localhost 'drop machine.company.com'
> 
> But when it didn't check in for an hour, it still seemingly went purple and sent out emails/pages.  I did a reload on the
> service and this now seems to have stopped, but I don't think it should have happened in the first place.
> 
> d) I get startup errors that don't seem to make a ton of sense:
> 
> In xymonlaunch.log, I see:
> 
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 xymonlaunch starting
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot open directory 
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading hostnames
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot load host data
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading saved state
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up signal handlers
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up xymond channels
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up logfiles
> 
> 
> As I said, I am seeing all of the hosts that I have in the system and have double checked the permissions and the xymon user
> can most definitely access all of the files, so why am I getting these errors?
> 
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ whoami
> xymon
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ wc -l /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk 
> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ ls -als /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk 
> 31756 -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 32474378 Oct 26 17:54 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> 
> I am also seeing:
> 
> 2011-10-26 17:54:50 Cannot load host data
> 
> in my xymond.log every 10 minutes.  As I said, any files seem to be accessible as far as I can tell, but maybe since the error
> message is not very verbose, I am not looking in the right place.
> 
> I know these probably all seem like newbie questions, but I have done all the debugging I seem to be able to do and can't
> figure anything out on these.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Skadz
> 
> 
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