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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hello everybody,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Since 7 month I use hobbit to observe the availability of our VSE, VM and Linux systems running on IBM z9.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The hobbit-server 4.2.0 is running in sles10 sp2 on this IBM z9.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Everything worked well until last friday. In the Current Staus screen the icons for bbd, bbtest, http and the complete conn column changed </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">from green to purple (no report).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">After a system reboot everything seems to be ok again because all icons were green.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">But after some time the problem was back, the icons for bbd, bbtest, http and the complete conn column changed from green to purple (no report).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">When I log on to hobbit and run 'bbtest-net' manually all purple icons change to green except the bbtest icon (still purple).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">After a while the already mentioned icon will change to purple again.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">So it looks to me that bbtest-net will not restart after the interval </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">of 5 min.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have reduced the number of observed hosts from 20 to 10 and inserted </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">--concurrency=N in the hobbitlaunch.cfg. But the problem still exists.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Here is a part of my hobbitlaunch.cfg </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># "bbnet" runs the bbtest-net tool to perform the network based tests - i.e. http, smtp, ssh, dns and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"># all of the various network protocols we need to test.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[bbnet]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> NEEDS hobbitd</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --concurrency=N</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> INTERVAL 5m</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">These are my running hobbit processes</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">lx100:/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc # ps afx|grep hobbit|grep -v grep</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14314 ? Ss 0:04 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg --env=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14315 ? S 0:13 \_ hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 --store-clientlogs=!msgs</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14316 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/hobbit/history.log hobbitd_history</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14317 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_history</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14318 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hostdata.log hobbitd_hostdata</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14319 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_hostdata</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14320 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/hobbit/page.log hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14322 ? S 0:01 | \_ hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14321 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd --extra-script=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/zvmvse.sh --extra-tests=procs</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14323 ? S 0:05 | \_ hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd --extra-script=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/zvmvse.sh --extra-tests=procs</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14324 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14325 ? S 0:01 | \_ hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14326 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log hobbitd_client</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">14327 ? S 0:02 | \_ hobbitd_client</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">13039 ? S 0:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.localhost.13022 2>&1; mv /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.localhost.13022 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.localhost</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">lx100:/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc #</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I cannot see any errormessage. There is enough space in the filesystem.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Is it necessary to create a crontab entry to start bbtest-net every 5 min?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">My colleagues promissed me, that they have nothing changed.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have no idea what happended. Every hint is appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> kind regards Horst Rempel</FONT>
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