<div dir="ltr"><div>I have recently downloaded xymon version 4.3.11 to experiment with as a replacement for the last publicly available version of Big Brother. It is running on Solaris 10 x86.</div><div><br></div><div>The http test on the Display server, for itself, has a flapping status for http with DNS errors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've experimented with the following, restarting the xymon server application each time</div><div><br></div><div>server/etc/tasks.cfg</div><div><br></div><div> CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --concurrency=64</div>
<div> CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares</div><div><br></div><div>server/etc/tasks.cfg/hosts.cfg</div><div><br></div><div> 130.11.50.48 <a href="http://owipm1.er.usgs.gov">owipm1.er.usgs.gov</a> # bbd <a href="http://owipm1.er.usgs.gov">http://owipm1.er.usgs.gov</a>=130.11.50.48</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am only monitoring the server itself and one remote host.</div><div><br></div><div>xymond.log shows</div><div><br></div><div>2013-06-05 00:49:40 Flapping detected for owipm1.er.usgs.gov:cron - 5 changes in 1507 seconds</div>
<div><br></div><div>xymonlaunch.log shows many of these</div><div><br></div><div>2013-06-05 10:35:04 Task xymongen terminated by signal 6</div><div>2013-06-05 10:36:04 Task xymongen terminated by signal 6</div><div>2013-06-05 10:37:06 Task xymongen terminated by signal 6</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've run a script which uses dig on the FQDN for the server once every second,</div><div>and have never seen even a significant delay, let alone a failure.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>
<div dir="ltr"><div> -- David Boldt</div><div> <<a href="mailto:dboldt@usgs.gov" target="_blank">dboldt@usgs.gov</a>></div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div> "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."</div><div> --Samuel Johnson [1709 - 1784], (attributed)</div>
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