client data incomplete

[Hiren Patel (HN)]

greetings,

i have been getting hobbit alerts about processes not running, having a
look at the process list shows an incomplete 'ps' section.

nothing searched on the mailing list related to this issue as such.

running the following on the hostdata file on the hobbit server showed
the following:

  egrep '^\[.*\]$' 1191352319
[date]
[uname]
[osversion]
[uptime]
[who]
[df]
[mount]
[free]
[ifconfig]
[route]
[netstat]
[ports]
[ifstat]
[ps]

doing this on other files shows me that more sections after 'ps' should
be in the file. the data seems to be cut short.

this only happens on occasion, i cant really pin it down to certain
times of the day (if/when backups take place on the network causing a
lot more traffic) either.

there is nothing particularly helpful in hobbitclient logs.
on the client side i am getting the following in hobbitclient.log, but
not at the time when the issue occurred.

2007-10-01 21:16:46 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout

im wondering if it is a problem on the client before it sends the data
to the server, or if it is a network congestion issue maybe. any tips on
how i should go about diagnosing this would be helpful.

thanks.

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Hiren Patel | Ops Specialist | ISS Infrastructure | Telkom
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