[hobbit] Xymon Client dies unexpectedly?

[Ralph Mitchell]

The core files would generally be somewhere in the Xymon home directory
structure.  You might also want to look in the hobbit name pages to see how
to enable debug options on the various components.
Ralph Mitchell


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> wrote:

> 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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> J. Bobby Lopez
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