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<DIV>I apologize -- I probably should have been clearer on this.</DIV>
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<DIV>We use Novell's (read Attachmate's) SLES. In SLES 11 SP1 ntpdate doesn't work (running /usr/sbin/ntpdate gives a whole warning page of stuff -- ntpdate is deprecated (see ntp.org for more info), use ntpd -q, use rcntp ntptimeset and on on...). But ntpdate doesn't do anything, so I think that the built-in ntp of xymon won't work in this case.</DIV>
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<DIV>So, for me to get this to work, it looks like I would have to mangle xymonnet.c (not great for future xymon updates) or try to figure out how to do UDP tests (which, for me, is probably easier said than done). Or I just let it go. I need to cipher on that.</DIV>
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<DIV>But I do thank you again Bruce and Tim for your help and pointers.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Regards,<BR>Barrie.<BR>>>> "White, Bruce" <bewhite@fellowes.com> 11/21/2011 11:06 AM >>><BR></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Barrie Parker [mailto:Barrie.Parker@uregina.ca] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, November 21, 2011 10:53 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> White, Bruce; Tim McCloskey; xymon@xymon.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [Xymon] Trouble shooting alerts</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Alerting using procs does send an alert as expected for all monitored processes/daemons/services/etc. So that was my misunderstanding. And, yes, drilling down on info shows an alert when I use procs and no alert when I use ntpd by itself. I hadn't understood to look at "info" previously; thank you for the pointer.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I had looked at the protocols doc late on Friday and I'm starting to understand xymon's behavior better.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thank you all again.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR>>>> "White, Bruce" <bewhite@fellowes.com> 11/21/2011 8:00 AM >>><BR>I think Tim found the issue. Click on the info page for the server and<BR>see if the alert shows up in the alerts box. If the server has no ntpd<BR>test, then no alert will appear in the alerts box.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Bruce White<BR>Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite@fellowes.com | <A href="http://www.fellowes.com/">http://www.fellowes.com/</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] On Behalf<BR>Of Tim McCloskey<BR>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:46 AM<BR>To: Barrie Parker; xymon@xymon.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Xymon] Trouble shooting alerts<BR><BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: xymon-bounces@xymon.com [xymon-bounces@xymon.com] On Behalf Of<BR><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Barrie</st1:place></st1:City> Parker [Barrie.Parker@uregina.ca]<BR>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:22 AM<BR>To: xymon@xymon.com<BR>Subject: [Xymon] Trouble shooting alerts<BR><BR>...snip...<BR>The status page shows the red "critical" icon for procs. When I drill<BR>down into procs ...snip...<BR><BR><BR><BR>Should the alert be for 'procs', not ntpd?<BR><BR>Tim<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Xymon mailing list<BR>Xymon@xymon.com<BR><A href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></FONT>
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