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class=759243212-15112007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I am running
4.2.0 with the allinone patch. I do have a suspicion that external server
side scripts could contribute to the stale alerts. In my case,
specifically a script that ssh's to a remote host and executes a shell script on
the remote host. It may also happen in conjunction with these errors in
the logs, which someone else recently reported:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>page.log.1:2007-11-05 16:20:53 hobbitd_alert: Got message
14425, expected 14424<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>As soon as the issue with tooltips is resolved, I will
be moving our primary hobbit to the snapshot release.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN
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color=#0000ff>~</FONT></SPAN>David<SPAN
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 14,
2007 17:18<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] stale
alerts<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>This has never happened to me - are the two of you using the 4.2.0
release?<BR><BR>Josh<BR><SPAN class=759243212-15112007><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 11/14/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Gore,
David W (David)</B> <<A href="mailto:david.gore@verizonbusiness.com">
david.gore@verizonbusiness.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>> From: Gary Baluha [mailto: <A
href="mailto:gumby3203@gmail.com">gumby3203@gmail.com</A>]<BR>> Sent:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 16:30<BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</A><BR>> Subject: Re:
[hobbit] stale alerts<BR>> <BR>> Order of events:<BR>> 1am: alert
went yellow, email was sent out<BR>> 1:15am: alert recovered<BR>> 2am,
and each additional hour: email was sent out saying<BR>> alert was yellow
(it was actually showing green) <BR>> 10:30a: I restart Hobbit and get
the "stale alert" message,<BR>> and it finally stops sending
alerts. Recovery email was<BR>> never sent out, even though it
is in the alert rules.<BR>><BR>> On Nov 14, 2007 11:22 AM, Josh
Luthman <BR>> <<A
href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</A>>
wrote:<BR>> > You're saying it went yellow, then green. The
log tells<BR>> you it sent<BR>> > an alert when it was yellow.
<BR>> ><BR>> > I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem here
=/ It sent an alert first<BR>> > when it was yellow and
another when it switch to green to<BR>> inform you<BR>> > it
recovered, correct? <BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > On
11/14/07, Gary Baluha <<A
href="mailto:gumby3203@gmail.com">gumby3203@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>
> > Yes, the alert history shows it went yellow and then 5 <BR>>
minutes later<BR>> > > recovered. The web page is
showing everything correct. However,<BR>> > > when I
check the notifications.log file, I can see that<BR>> it was
still<BR>> > > sending alerts about it being yellow, even though it
was <BR>> definitely<BR>> > > green.<BR>> > ><BR>>
> > On Nov 14, 2007 10:38 AM, Josh Luthman<BR>> <<A
href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</A>><BR>>
> wrote: <BR>> > > > Click on it the host's test and click on
history - was<BR>> red at all?<BR>> > > ><BR>> > >
> Are the WWW pages updating? Look in the top right<BR>>
corner of the <BR>> > > > page<BR>> > once<BR>> >
> > you click on the host's test link.<BR>> > > ><BR>>
> > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > On
11/14/07, Gary Baluha < <A
href="mailto:gumby3203@gmail.com">gumby3203@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>
> > > ><BR>> > > > ><BR>> > > >
><BR>> > > > > I noticed this morning that our Hobbit
server was sending out <BR>> > > > > alerts for the process
check for a machine that was actually<BR>> > > > > shown as
green on the hobbit web page. I checked on the<BR>>
> > > > monitored machine, and the alert was indeed green, yet
the <BR>> > > > > server was still sending out emails as
though it were in a<BR>> > > > > yellow state. I
restarted the Hobbit client on the monitored<BR>> > > > >
machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the server. <BR>> >
> > > After doing this, I noticed the following in the
page.log<BR>> > > > > file:<BR>> > > >
><BR>> > > > > 2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for
host-name:procs dropped <BR>> > > > ><BR>> > > >
> (I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the<BR>>
> innocent)<BR>> > > > > What exactly does this
mean? Before I restarted the Hobbit <BR>> > > > >
server process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and<BR>> >
> > > removed the erroneous alert, but that didn't correct
the<BR>> > > > > problem. It was only after I
restarted the Hobbit <BR>> server process that it cleared the
alert.<BR>> > > > > Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is
there something else<BR>> > > > > going on
here?<BR>><BR><BR>Gary,<BR><BR>We get those too, along with leftover
semaphores and shared memory <BR>segments when we stop the hobbit
server. The snapshot, seems much<BR>better, but with tooltips and
host descriptions pushing our display to<BR>the far right of the screen we
cannot use it right now.<BR><BR>~David<BR><BR>Ps. Just to let you know it's
not just your setup.<BR><BR>To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an
e-mail to<BR><A
href="mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk">hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk</A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Josh Luthman<BR>Office: 937-552-2340<BR>Direct:
937-552-2343<BR>1100 Wayne St<BR>Suite 1337<BR>Troy, OH 45373<BR><BR>Those who
don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. <BR>--- Henry
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