[hobbit] Xymon Client dies unexpectedly?

[J. Bobby Lopez]

I was searching for something like that, but haven't found any.  Where would
the core files reside?

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> That sounds like the client runs once, sends some info, then quits.  Thirty
> minutes later the display goes purple because no further reports were
> received.  Are there any core files??
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:26 AM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> wrote:
>
>> Having an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot it.
>>
>> I'm using Xymon 4.2.3 on Debian (kernel 2.4.27-2-386).
>>
>> I have one client which was was installed as user 'xymon'
>> (configure/make/make install).
>>
>> I run the client with 'runclient.sh start' and I see the services go great
>> on the web interface.  All looks great.
>>
>> After about 30 minutes however, the client seems to stop sending reports
>> to the server, and all services go purple.
>>
>> Here's what I see when looking at the process listing on the client when
>> things are working correctly:
>>
>> xymon at JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
>> xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
>> /home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
>> --config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
>> --log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
>> --pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid
>> xymon    25724     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2
>> 1>/home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707 2>&1; mv
>> /home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707
>> /home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01
>>
>> And then when the client stops reporting to the server, the process
>> listing looks like this:
>>
>> xymon at JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
>> xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
>> /home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
>> --config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
>> --log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
>> --pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid
>>
>>
>> So other than the virtual memory stats missing from the process list, it
>> seems like it should still be sending reports.
>>
>> I've checked the log files in 'logs/' and 'tmp/' but found nothing useful.
>>
>> This is a pretty fresh install of the Xymon server/client, so there isn't
>> really much that hsould be affecting it.
>>
>> Should I be running the client as root?  Does it provide more logs that
>> way?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> J. Bobby Lopez
>> Web: http://jbldata.com/
>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbobbylopez
>>
>>
>


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