[xymon] TS - bb-hosts problem

[Steve Holmes]

On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:54 AM, d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com wrote:

> I am getting a yellow alert on my Xymon server under ‘BBTEST’:
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> Mon Aug 30 07:43:57 2010
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> bbtest-net version 4.3.0-0.beta2
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> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
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> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20343
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> Statistics:
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>  Hosts total           :      951
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>  Hosts with no tests   :        0
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>  Total test count      :     1008
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>  Status messages       :     1012
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>  Alert status msgs     :        0
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>  Transmissions         :       14
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> DNS statistics:
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>  # hostnames resolved  :      975
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>  # succesful           :      573
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>  # failed              :      382
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>  # calls to dnsresolve :     1002
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> TCP test statistics:
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>  # TCP tests total     :         40
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>  # HTTP tests          :       30
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>  # Simple TCP tests    :       10
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>  # Connection attempts :       40
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>  # bytes written       :     4682
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>  # bytes read          :   109923
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> Error output:
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> Host cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results
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> TIME SPENT
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> Event                                              Starttime          Duration
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> bbtest-net startup                               8802.037154                 -
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> Service definitions loaded                       8802.038670          0.001516
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> Tests loaded                                     8802.134488          0.095818
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> DNS lookups completed                            8807.226739          5.092251
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> Test engine setup completed                      8807.245081          0.018342
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> TCP tests completed                              8810.416313          3.171232
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> PING test completed (951 hosts)                  8859.946266         49.529953
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> PING test results sent                           8859.949945          0.003679
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> Test result collection completed               8859.950004          0.000059
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> LDAP test engine setup completed               8859.950006          0.000002
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> LDAP tests executed                              8859.950008          0.000002
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> LDAP tests result collection completed         8859.950010          0.000002
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> DNS tests executed                               8860.077831          0.127821
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> NTP tests executed                             8861.305830          1.227999
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> Test results transmitted                         8861.339357          0.033527
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> bbtest-net completed                             8861.340730          0.001373
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> TIME TOTAL                                                           59.303576
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> Here is a ‘grep’ of bb-hosts:
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>                 [root at monitorp etc]# grep -i cswflex4 bb-hosts
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> 0.0.0.0         cswflex4.csw.L-3com.com
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> 128.170.31.14   cswflex4.csw.L-3com.com         # conn
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> 0.0.0.0 cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com
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> 0.0.0.0 cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com
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> [root at monitorp etc]#
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> I cannot find a second entry with an IP address.
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> I have hundreds of other servers with 0.0.0.0 entries so I cannot figure out what is happening?
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> Running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.5 on Dell R-610.
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> I tried to do a ‘drop hostname’, could there be a duplicate in the Xymon data base?
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> If so, how do you remove the bad one so you don’t loose the history being gathered by the client on the Windows server.
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> The client is the big brother client.
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> Thanks,
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> Tom Schmitt
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> Senior IT Staff - R&D
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> L-3 Communication Systems West
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> 640 North 2200 West
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> P.O. Box 16850
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> Salt Lake City, UT  84116
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> Phone (801) 594-3030
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> Cell      (801) 231-7230
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> eFax    (413) 480-6873
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> D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com
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It says the duplicate is in bb-hosts. Grep bb-hosts for that hostname. If you have 'include'd files grep those, too. You should be able to verify the duplicate and maybe even find it. 

Steve
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