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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 18:47, Carl Melgaard <</span><a href="mailto:Carl.Melgaard@stab.rm.dk"><span lang="EN-US">Carl.Melgaard@stab.rm.dk</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I have 2 Xymon servers, 1 primary and 1 secondary. The primary distributes to the secondary.
Only the secondary is updated as of yet.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">|</span><span lang="EN-US">It makes sense to have two for redundancy.
</span>Have you thought about configuring both Xymon servers in each client? That way, if the primary goes down, the secondary will still receive updates. (This has nothing to do with diagnosing the gaps in your graphs, I'm just curious.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Yeah, I already do this on all my xymon clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Also in xymonclient.log I get these quite alot, dunno if its related:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">mv: cannot stat '/dev/shm/logfetch.x.cfg.tmp': No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">cat: /dev/shm/xymon_vmstat.x: No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">Do you only see these on the Xymon server, or these log messages also showing on Xymon clients?
</span>And if so, at what frequency?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I don’t see them anywhere than on the updated Xymon-server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">623 lines in the logfile yesterday.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">That's roughly 2 every 5-minute interval.
</span>That's significant.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">Can you show me the output of the following commands. </span>I'm running this on one of my Xymon servers (using Terabithia RPMs) to show what you might expect:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">></span>$ pgrep -lf xymonlaunch<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">$ ps –ef|grep xymonlaunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">xymon 1084 1 0 Jan19 ? 00:01:24 /usr/sbin/xymonlaunch --no-daemon --log=/var/log/xymon/xymonlaunch.log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">$ pgrep -lf vmstat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">></span><span lang="EN-US">8304 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/usr/lib/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.<servername>.8252 2>&1; mv /usr/lib/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.<servername>.8252 /usr/lib/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.<servername><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">></span>8306 vmstat 300 2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">$ps –ef |grep vmstat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">xymon 14896 14893 0 08:50 ? 00:00:00 vmstat 300 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">xymon 14904 14898 0 08:50 ? 00:00:00 vmstat 300 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I noticed these 2 running, and couldnt figure out how both were spawned. Maybe I should “DISABLED” the client-part in clientlaunch.cfg – I see now
that theres actually a xymonclient-part in tasks.cfg… There we have the 2 instances!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I guess I’ll try that
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> Thanks for pointing me right at the answer! Now I just have to figure out,
why the new server is eating up 10 times more RAM than the old server, with the same amount of hosts monitored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Carl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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