server fails to receive all of client message

[Adam Goryachev]

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I have a hobbit server which has been running for a long time quite
nicely. Recently, I noticed it was consuming approx 8G worth of data per
month (from all the remote clients reporting their data). This was
costing quite a bit of money (we pay per MB), so I modified all the
client to report using a different IP (and hence provider which has much
cheaper rates).

Anyway, the problem is that approximately since then, a number of client
reports are not completely received. Sometimes some of the ps output is
truncated, sometimes the ports sections is truncated, etc. This leads to
false positive alerts (ie, procs goes red because some monitored procs
are not running since they were after the truncated section).

I've increased the timeout on the hobbitd (--timeout=60) but this
doesn't seem to have helped. The only common factor between the clients
which have this problem are:

1) Most of them are running bbproxy and passing status messages from a
number of clients.
2) The rest of them are on very slow connections, or frequently very
busy connections.

Around the same time I actually 'fixed' bbproxy to on the remote sites,
prior to this the clients were reporting directly to both hobbit servers.

I've looked for an option to stop bbproxy from 'cacheing and combining'
multiple clients into a single connection, but this doesn't seem to be
possible. I don't seem to get any logs/alerts from hobbit when this happens.

Can anyone suggest where I should look, what I can do to try and resolve
this?

(My main problem is that I've started ignoring the late night SMS
notifications, and I'm sure I will end up missing something important
because of that).

Running hobbit version 4.2.0 from package 4.2.0-1 on the server.

Thanks,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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