<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi,<br><br><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Do you have anything under Ghost reports on the
xymon server?<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I don't have anything under ghost report.<br><br></span></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Are the client and server on the same or
different hosts?<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They are running on different hosts.</span> <br></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Is the client pointing at the correct address and
port for the xymon server<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yes it is pointing the correct address and port.</span><br><br></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">How do you know files are missing from
~/client/tmp directory .. what are you expecting to see
there? </span></font><br><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">When the client functioned(the test were green in xymon server) correctly i saw two more files there logfetch.clientname.cfg and logfetch.</span></font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">clientname.status.</span></font><br><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"><br></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Have you checked the clientlaunch.log and
xymonclient.log files for errors in ~/client/logs?<br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I see no errors.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Traian.</span><br></span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"><br><br></span></font>--- On <b>Mon, 2/27/12, Chris.Morris@rwe.com <i><Chris.Morris@rwe.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Chris.Morris@rwe.com <Chris.Morris@rwe.com><br>Subject: RE: [Xymon] Ghost client problems<br>To: paveltraian@yahoo.com<br>Cc: xymon@xymon.com<br>Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 2:49 PM<br><br><div id="yiv2087394452">
<div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Do you have anything under Ghost reports on the
xymon server?</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Are the client and server on the same or
different hosts?</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Is the client pointing at the correct address and
port for the xymon server</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">How do you know files are missing from
~/client/tmp directory .. what are you expecting to see
there? </span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452638053912-27022012">Have you checked the clientlaunch.log and
xymonclient.log files for errors in ~/client/logs?</span></font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Pavel Traian
[mailto:paveltraian@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 27 February 2012
12:05<br><b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com; Morris, Chris (SS-IS)<br><b>Subject:</b>
RE: [Xymon] Ghost client problems<br></font><br></div>
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<td valign="top">Hi,<br>That one i have solved it, but....<br>Now i have
reinstallled the client and i started it using ./runclient.sh
--hostname=host start command from xymon user.<br>On the xymon server
web page all the tests(disk,cpu etc) appear in violet colour and i see
there the last report i had from when it functioned ok.<br>On the client
i have issued some commands and you have the output
here:<br><br>[root@otpproxy1 tmp]# ps -ef | grep
xymon<br>xymon 3785
1 0 09:44 ? 00:00:00
./bin/xymonlaunch --config=./etc/clientlaunch.cfg
--log=./logs/clientlaunch.log
--pidfile=./logs/clientlaunch.otpproxy1.pid<br>xymon
5892 1 0 13:54
? 00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2
1>./tmp/xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.5867 2>&1; mv
./tmp/xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.5867
./tmp/xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1<br>xymon 5894
5892 0 13:54 ? 00:00:00
vmstat 300 2<br>root 5902 5686
0 13:57 pts/0 00:00:00 grep xymon<br>[root@otpproxy1
tmp]# ps -e | grep xymon<br> 3785
? 00:00:00
xymonlaunch<br>[root@otpproxy1 tmp]# ls -l<br>total 36<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 32690 Feb 27 13:54 msg.otpproxy1.txt<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon
xymon 246 Feb 27 13:54
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.5867<br>[root@otpproxy1 tmp]#<br><br>As i see
there are some files missing from tmp directory. I don't understand
why.<br>Can you please give me a
hint?<br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/23/12,
Chris.Morris@rwe.com <i><Chris.Morris@rwe.com></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;"><br>From:
Chris.Morris@rwe.com <Chris.Morris@rwe.com><br>Subject: RE:
[Xymon] Ghost client problems<br>To: xymon@xymon.com<br>Cc:
paveltraian@yahoo.com<br>Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 2:17
PM<br><br>
<div id="yiv2087394452">
<div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452-23022012">A simple ps -ef | grep xymon
will show what xymon processes are running and which user is running
them.</span></font></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452-23022012"></span></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="yiv2087394452-23022012">Look for 2 instances of
xymonlaunch.</span></font></div><br>
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<hr tabindex="-1">
<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> xymon-bounces@xymon.com
[mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pavel
Traian<br><b>Sent:</b> 23 February 2012 12:03<br><b>To:</b>
xymon@xymon.com; Steven Carr<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Ghost
client problems<br></font><br></div>
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<td valign="top"><br>Hi,<br>This is my original question.<br>If
i knew the answer i shouldn't ask for help.<br>I don't know
where to check and what to
check.<br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu,
2/23/12, Steven Carr <i><sjcarr@gmail.com></i></b>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;"><br>From:
Steven Carr <sjcarr@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Xymon]
Ghost client problems<br>To: "Pavel Traian"
<paveltraian@yahoo.com>, xymon@xymon.com<br>Date:
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 1:43 PM<br><br>
<div id="yiv2087394452">Why are the FQDN named files owned by
root? this would seem to indicate that root is running
commands to output those files? xymon client should be
running as the xymon user only. Is something else on your
system starting up a second instance of the
client?<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><br><br>
<div class="yiv2087394452gmail_quote">On 23 February 2012
11:30, Pavel Traian <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top">Hi,<br>I have manually compiled
it.<br>I start it using ./runclient.sh
--hostname=otpproxy1 start command.(otpproxy1 is the
client name in hosts.cfg)<br>Here you have the
commands i gave:<br><br>[xymon@otpproxy1 tmp]$ rm -f
*<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 tmp]$ ls -l<br>total
0<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 tmp]$<br>[xymon@otpproxy1
tmp]$<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 tmp]$<br>[xymon@otpproxy1
tmp]$ cd ..<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 client]$
./runclient.sh --hostname=otpproxy1 start<br>Xymon
client for linux started on
otpproxy1<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 client]$ cd
tmp<br>[xymon@otpproxy1 tmp]$ ls -l<br>total
44<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 41
Feb 23 13:13 logfetch.otpproxy1.cfg<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 33175 Feb 23 13:13
msg.otpproxy1.txt<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon
xymon 246 Feb 23 13:12
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.7180<br>[xymon@otpproxy1
tmp]$ ls -l<br>total 84<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon
xymon 41 Feb 23 13:18
logfetch.otpproxy1.cfg<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon
xymon 35 Feb 23 13:18
logfetch.otpproxy1.status<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 32347 Feb 23 13:17
msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 35555 Feb 23 13:18
msg.otpproxy1.txt<br>-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon
xymon 246 Feb 23 13:17
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.7262<br>-rw-r--r-- 1
root root 246 Feb 23 13:16
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.7223<br>[xymon@otpproxy1
tmp]$<br><br>After i start it i have only
msg.otpproxy1.txt file in tmp folder but after a
while i have also msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt
file.<br>Why does it happen? What do i do wrong?
<div class="yiv2087394452im"><br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br><br><br><br>---
On <b>Thu, 2/23/12, Steven Carr <i><<a rel="nofollow">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>></i></b>
wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;">
<div class="yiv2087394452im"><br>From: Steven Carr
<<a rel="nofollow">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject:
Re: [Xymon] Ghost client problems<br>To: "Pavel
Traian" <<a rel="nofollow">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>><br></div>Cc:
<a rel="nofollow">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>Date:
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:36 PM
<div>
<div class="yiv2087394452h5"><br><br>
<div>How did you install the client, manual
compilation or from one of the RPMs that others
have built?<br><br>If you did it manually then in
your init script add --hostname=XYZ as a parameter
to runclient.sh (this does appear to map to the
MACHINEDOTS variable inside
runclient.sh).<br><br>Steve<br><br><br>
<div>On 23 February 2012 10:29, Pavel Traian <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top">Hi,<br>I don't find any
CLIENTNAME variable, but i have MACHINEDOTS
variable in the runclient.sh which is said to be
"# This systems hostname".<br>I changed it to
use 'hostanme -s' and still the same result as
in the first message.<br>I have these files in
tmp folder:
<div><br><br>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon
41 Feb 22 13:17<br>>
logfetch.otpproxy1.cfg<br>> -rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 41 Feb 22 13:17<br>>
logfetch.otpproxy1.status<br>> -rw-r--r-- 1
root root 35787 Feb 22 13:17<br>>
msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt<br>>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 37183 Feb 22
13:17<br>> msg.otpproxy1.txt<br>>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 246
Feb 22 13:17<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.2637<br>> -rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 246 Feb 22
13:14<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2597<br>>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246
Feb 22 13:17<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2681<br>
<br></div>Do you have any explanation why i have
all these files? Shouldn't it be only one named
msg.otpproxy1.txt and not the second named
msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt?
<div><br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br><br><br><br>---
On <b>Thu, 2/23/12, Steven Carr <i><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=sjcarr@gmail.com">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>></i></b>
wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;">
<div><br>From: Steven Carr <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=sjcarr@gmail.com">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject:
Re: [Xymon] Ghost client problems<br>To: "Pavel
Traian" <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br></div>Date:
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:17 PM
<div>
<div><br><br>
<div>To use the shortname just change the
CLIENTHOSTNAME variable to be the shortname, you
can use whatever you want aslong as it matches
with what you have in the main
bb-hosts/hosts.cfg.<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><br>
<div>On 23 February 2012 09:51, Pavel Traian
<span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<td valign="top">Hi,<br>If i want to use the short
name how do i proceed?<br>What config files from
the client installation should I modify?
<br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br><br><br>--- On
<b>Thu, 2/23/12, Steven Carr <i><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=sjcarr@gmail.com">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>></i></b>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;"><br>From:
Steven Carr <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=sjcarr@gmail.com">sjcarr@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject:
Re: [Xymon] Ghost client problems<br>To: "Pavel
Traian" <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>Date:
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 11:02 AM
<div>
<div><br><br>
<div>On all of our systems I force the client to
use it's FQDN, in /etc/sysconfig/xymon I
configure the CLIENTHOSTNAME variable to be the
FQDN e.g. as part of our build script it
runs:<br><br>sed -i "s/#
CLIENTHOSTNAME=\"\"/CLIENTHOSTNAME=\"`hostname
-f`\"/g"
/etc/sysconfig/xymon<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><br>
<div>On 23 February 2012 08:45, Pavel Traian
<span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;">Hi,<br>I
have added the short name to hosts.cfg otpproxy1
not <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com">otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com</a>. On
the Xymon page i have the conn, disk, cpu,
procs... all the tests are active there(it means
the server receives the client data
report).<br>But the client seems to send the
data report using the FQDN also and the server
sees it like ghost client.<br>How can i do to
prevent it.<br>Regards,<br>Traian.<br>
<div><br><br><br>Simple stuff first, do you have
the client listed in ~/server/etc/hosts.cfg
?<br><br>A little clarification: ghost clients
are generally clients that are sending data to
the server, but the server is not configured to
display them.<br><br></div>--- On Wed, 2/22/12,
Pavel Traian <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br><br>> From: Pavel Traian <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=paveltraian@yahoo.com">paveltraian@yahoo.com</a>><br>>
Subject: Ghost client problems<br>> To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>> Date:
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 1:51 PM<br>
<div>
<div>> Hi,<br>> I have installed a xymon
client on a CentOS 6 x64 server.<br>>
Everything looks good except the fact that even
the Xymon<br>> server receives data and its'
page is OK(the client is there<br>> diplayed
with its' short name) i have the same
client<br>> displayed in Ghost Clients(this
time with its' FQDN).<br>> I have checked on
the client and i have too many files in<br>>
xymon/client/tmp folder.<br>> It looks
something like this:<br>><br>> -rw-rw-r--
1 xymon xymon 41 Feb 22
13:17<br>> logfetch.otpproxy1.cfg<br>>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 41 Feb 22
13:17<br>> logfetch.otpproxy1.status<br>>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35787 Feb 22
13:17<br>>
msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt<br>>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 37183 Feb 22
13:17<br>> msg.otpproxy1.txt<br>>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 246
Feb 22 13:17<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.2637<br>> -rw-rw-r-- 1
xymon xymon 246 Feb 22
13:14<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2597<br>>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 246
Feb 22 13:17<br>>
xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2681<br>><br>>
It seems like the client is started al least
twice....<br>> How can I set it
right?<br>> Regards,<br>>
Traian.<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Xymon
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