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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Right…it wasn’t logging, but CPU utilization data that was missing in the graphs. Logging was fine, and all other graphs were fine…just the CPU utilization graph was having issues. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Chris.Morris@rwe.com [mailto:Chris.Morris@rwe.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 16, 2012 4:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au; Mike Burger<br><b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xymon] no vmstat data for 8 hours on weekdays?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>I think Mike said yesterday that is was his "procs" section that was causing the client to generate oversized client message. This test precedes the vmstat test in xymonclient-aix.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Laidman<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 November 2012 23:17<br><b>To:</b> Mike Burger<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] no vmstat data for 8 hours on weekdays?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 16 November 2012 02:48, Mike Burger <<a href="mailto:Mike.Burger@freedommortgage.com" target="_blank">Mike.Burger@freedommortgage.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"&apos","serif";color:#1F497D'>That did it. I’m not sure if MAXMSG_STATUS or MAXMSG_DATA is the culprit, though I suspect it’s _DATA.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nice one. Pretty sure it would be MAXMSG_CLIENT, which relates to the client messages. I have this set to 2048 on my server because I have some particularly fast-moving log files I want to monitor on a couple of my servers.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rather than increasing the limit, you might want to find out why the client message is so large and try to reduce the size if you can. Perhaps the server is logging heeeeaps of messages into a logfile that's being monitored. Have a browse through the client data and see if there's one section that's really big and can probably be adjusted or eliminated.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$ xymoncmd xymon localhost 'clientlog name-of-client' | less<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it's log data, and you don't actually report on log messages, you might consider removing the "log:" entry from client-local.cfg on the Xymon server - either from the [aix] section, or (if it exist) from the [name-of-host] section.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or you can have the client put a cap on the size of log data being sent back in its client message by adjusting the "log:" entry in the file client-local.cfg on the server. This limit is fetched by the client from the server after it reports its client data. So an adjustment on the server can take up to 10 minutes to be honoured by the client. The default for AIX syslog.log is 10k, so it's unlikely that this alone could push your client messages beyond 512k.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>J<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"&apos","serif"'>**************************************************************************** </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"&apos","serif"'>The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. 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