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<p>On 2017-07-07 2:51 am, Jeremy Laidman wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Not much chance, really. This was my first guess at the cause. The [ports] section appears complete (doesn't have its own limit as far as I know), the [clock] section is present at the end, and the UTC: datestamp line is present as the last line. Hence no artefacts I would expect to see when truncation takes place.
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<div>Also, the client messages are less than 300kB, whereas the default limit is 512kB and I've bumped that up to 2MB.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 July 2017 at 15:05, Ryan Novosielski <span><<a href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div>Any chance this is truncation happening? That test can have a lot of output.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);">--<br /> ____<br /> || \\UTGERS, |---------------------------*<wbr />O*---------------------------<br /> ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - <a dir="ltr" href="mailto:novosirj@rutgers.edu">novosirj@rutgers.edu</a><br /> || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus<br /> || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, Newark<br /> `'</span></div>
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<div><br /> On Jul 7, 2017, at 00:47, Jeremy Laidman <<a href="mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au">jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div>
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<div>I'm getting what appear to be false-positives for the port test that is monitoring the LISTEN socket for port 22, as opened by the sshd daemon. A few times a month, Xymon will show that the server is not listening on port 22, and 5 minutes later, the listening port is back again. The sshd process has never crashed or been reconfigured (eg with SIGHUP), and no other listening ports are showing the same behaviour. The client messages for the server during these events are complete and uncorrupted.</div>
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<div>The simplest fix is to use delayred to suppress alerts for 5 minutes. However, I would like to work out what's causing this behaviour. I don't believe this a problem with Xymon at all, and instead the netstat output in the client message is exactly what the OS provided the Xymon client. My guess is that it's due to a the way sshd works - perhaps it periodically rebinds to the socket - but nothing in the sshd logs seems to correlate with these events. If anyone can suggest what might be causing this, or how to investigate further, I'd be grateful.</div>
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<div>This problem happens for about a quarter of the servers in a pool, and no others. All servers are identical in OS, software and general configuration, but the servers affected by this tend to be the ones taking the most traffic and under the most load (although there's plenty of spare CPU cycles even on the most heavily-used server). I have two Xymon servers, each monitoring independently of the other, and this problem is reported by both Xymon servers, although at completely different dates and times.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Jeremy</div>
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<div>Have you considered adding the SSH network test, in conjunction?</div>
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