<html><body><p><font size="2">Yes,<br>that's what i checked at first. But i assume that also the info from the servers own client data are captured by the same client channel listener, and that obviously works.</font><br><br><font size="2">Nothing in the clientdata.log, even if i activate the DEBUG mode with a<br>kill -USR2 PID<br><br>My clientdata section:<br># The client back-end module. You need this if you are running the Xymon client on any system.</font><br><font size="2">[clientdata]</font><br><font size="2"> ENVFILE $XYMONSERVERHOME/etc/xymonserver.cfg</font><br><font size="2"> NEEDS xymond</font><br><font size="2"> CMD /home/xymon/server/bin/xymond_channel --channel=client \</font><br><font size="2"> --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log xymond_client \</font><br><font size="2"> --no-clear-files \</font><br><font size="2"> --no-clear-ports \</font><br><font size="2"> --no-port-listing \</font><br><font size="2"> --uptime-status</font><br><font size="2"> INTERVAL 2m<br><br>ps listing:</font><br><font size="2">$ ps -ef|grep "xymond_channel --channel=client"|grep -v grep</font><br><font size="2">xymon 18865 18705 0 05:13 ? 00:00:00 /home/xymon/server/bin/xymond_channel --channel=client --log=/home/xymon/server/logs/clientdata.log xymond_client --no-clear-files --no-clear-ports --no-port-listing --uptime-status</font><br><br><font size="2">I have a lot of TIME_WAITS from time to time, no idea why this goes up and down:</font><br><br><font size="2">$ netstat -atn|grep 1984</font><br><font size="2">tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1984 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN</font><br><font size="2">tcp 0 0 10.137.56.43:37752 10.137.56.43:1984 TIME_WAIT</font><br><font size="2">tcp 0 0 10.137.56.43:37822 10.137.56.43:1984 TIME_WAIT<br>...<br></font><br><font size="2">10.137.56.43 is the Xymon server IP.</font><br><font size="2"><br>$ netstat -atn|grep 1984|wc -l</font><br><font size="2">165</font><br><font size="2">(sometimes much much more)<br><br>(But goes down to 7 after some mins)</font><br><font size="2"><br></font><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=4EBB0B2DDFD5DE758f9e8a93df938690918c4EB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Thomas Eckert ---19/10/2017 11:14:56---Norbert, I assume your manual (BB way) is something like `xymo"><font size="2" color="#424282">Thomas Eckert ---19/10/2017 11:14:56---Norbert, I assume your manual (BB way) is something like `xymon 1.2.3.4 “status example.com.test …”`</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert@it-eckert.de></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">xymon <xymon@xymon.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">19/10/2017 11:14</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Xymon] no client results arrive, lot of TIME_WAIT at server</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">"Xymon" <xymon-bounces@xymon.com></font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br>Norbert,<br><br>I assume your manual (BB way) is something like `xymon 1.2.3.4 “status example.com.test …”`.<br><br>The xymon-client send `clientdata` that is processed by a “channel listener” and _that_ sends status-messages similar to above (a bit simplified).<br><br>That channel-listener may not be running/crashing:<br>Check our `tasks.cfg` for the section `[clientdata]` and verify, if the `xymond_channel`-process is running (I suspect it’s not). Maybe the `clientdata.log` helps with debugging. You may also run the task manually to get further information.<br><br>What’s your problem with the "lot of TIME_WAIT”? Are these just for tcp/1984-connections?<br><br>Cheers<br>Thomas<br>
<ul><ul>On 19 Oct 2017, at 07:30, Norbert Kriegenburg <<a href="mailto:norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com"><u><font color="#0000FF">norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com</font></u></a>> wrote:<br>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch">experts,</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch"><br>i have a new (not my first) Xymon installation (4.3.28 on RH 7.4, self compiled).<br>All looks good, but the clients only show the network tests (conn, ssh). Only the Xymon server itself shows everything (disk, cpu,...).<br>- all clients are RH 7.4, same install image used (i just copied over the client part with client config, create a cronjob for automatic start, so no root access nor extra install needed)<br>- nothing suspicious in server or client logs (even in debug mode)<br>- no ghosts<br>- if i send a test manually (the old BB way) this shows at Xymon immediately (so the client settings are ok)<br>- if i shutdown the xymond at server, the client logs complains:<br><br>2017-10-19 05:09:18.051994 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed)<br>2017-10-19 05:09:18.052104 -> Could not connect to Xymon </font><a href="mailto:daemon@10.137.56.43"><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="Courier 10 Pitch">daemon@10.137.56.43</font></u></a><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch">:1984 (Connection refused)</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch"><br>(so obviously they communicate)</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch"><br>Querying the xymond shows:<br>xymon 127.0.0.1 "query clientname.ssh"<br>green <!-- [flags:OrdastLe] --> Thu Oct 19 05:21:29 2017 ssh ok<br>is ok, but<br>xymon 127.0.0.1 "query clientname.disk"<br>shows nothing</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch"><br>Any ideas?</font><br><font size="2" face="Courier 10 Pitch"><br>Norbert</font><p>_______________________________________________<br>Xymon mailing list<u><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></u><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com"><u><font color="#0000FF">Xymon@xymon.com</font></u></a><br><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></ul></ul><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>Xymon mailing list<br>Xymon@xymon.com<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br></font></tt><br><br><br><BR>
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