[Xymon] memory status not updated on some Solaris clients after upgrade

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Sun Jan 19 22:28:11 CET 2014


Den 17-01-2014 21:20, Andy Smith skrev:
> If a Solaris host is stood up with no swap configured, any memory checks
> submitted to 4.3.13 (and possibly previous versions) are silently
> discarded.  This affects most (but not all) of our non-global zones.
> This patch for xymond/client/solaris.c fixes the problem.
>
> On the subject of non-global zones, it is necessary to run slightly
> different commands in a non-global zone to extract the correct
> information.  This is especially true in respect of memory and swap and
> will be particularly visible to anyone running memory capped zones.  I
> offer this patch to xymonclient-sunos.sh if anyone is interested.

Thanks, applied. I don't know enough about Solaris to determine if your 
client-script patches may break some setups, so I trust that you have 
tested it on different systems.

The change for server-side handling of the swap data seems sound, so I 
have no worries about that.


Regards,
Henrik




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