[Xymon] Xymond and xymonnet quirks

[Poppy, Ben]

Yes, you are correct, DNS Tests:

TIME SPENT
Event                                           Start time          Duration
xymonnet startup                              56982.063059                 -
Service definitions loaded                    56982.063799          0.000739 
Tests loaded                                  56982.112916          0.049116 
DNS lookups completed                         56987.113241          5.000324 
Test engine setup completed                   56987.121448          0.008207 
TCP tests completed                           56999.227356         12.105907 
PING test completed (1088 hosts)              57034.610220         35.382864 
PING test results sent                        57034.630133          0.019912 
Test result collection completed              57034.630481          0.000347 
LDAP test engine setup completed              57034.630482          0.000000 
LDAP tests executed                           57034.630482          0.000000 
LDAP tests result collection completed        57034.630482          0.000000 
DNS tests executed                            57378.220329        343.589846 
Test results transmitted                      57378.266216          0.045887 
xymonnet completed                            57378.267156          0.000939 
TIME TOTAL                                                        396.204096 


For the xymonserver.cfg, what is the proper way to configure when you have 2 xymon servers (1 primary and 1 instant backup server that gets the same data from all the reporting clients)? Should I change it from multiple to single in the xymonserver.cfg? but still have both listed in the xymonclient.cfg?

Thanks,
-Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:40 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond and xymonnet quirks

On 18-08-2011 06:41, Poppy, Ben wrote:
> After getting the latest Xymon 4.3.4 finally working on CentOS 6 64-bit,
> I'm seeing a few quirks that I'd appreciate some input on.
>
> First, under Xymonnet tests, it's alerting Yellow because the time spent
> is too long (over 300). The culprit is DNS tests executed taking over
> 340 itself.. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Is it "DNS lookups" or "DNS tests" ?

I've had another report that there is a problem with timeout handling in 
the DNS *tests* (the explicit tests to see if a dns server is working), 
which would show up in the latter line, whereas the ordinary DNS 
*lookups* (those performed to see what IP we should use to probe all the 
hosts in hosts.cfg) work OK.

> Next, under Xymond, I'm getting a ton of multiple statuses reports for
> CONN tests. I can't seem to find a clear archive of what would cause
> that other than having both IP's listed when you have 2 display servers..
>
> Both servers reference each other as a client and in xymonserver.cfg..

No wonder you get that warning, then. With both servers listing each 
other in xymonserver.cfg, then the network tests you run on each server 
will send the results to both of your servers - so server A will be 
getting all of the "conn" status reports both from server A and server 
B. Hence the warning - there are two systems reporting the same data.


Regards,
Henrik
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