Xymon client on ESX 3.5: goes purple after 30 minutes + disks not graphing

[loris.serena at pncgis.ie]

Hello List,

First of all, congratulations Buchan!!!


I have a couple of issues on two VMWare ESX 3.5 boxes.
The xymon client compiled ok and starts fine, just after 30 or so minutes
of all green, the local tests (disk, cpu. memory, etc...) turn purple on
the BBDISPLAY.
On the ESX box (dubesxserver), the xymon client is still up

xymon at dubesxserver logs]$ ps -ef | grep xymon
xymon    20485     1  0 12:54 ?        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.dubesxserver.pid
[xymon at dubesxserver logs]$

and the logs look clean

[xymon at dubesxserver logs]$ tail -6 clientlaunch.log
2010-07-08 11:04:12 hobbitlaunch starting
2010-07-08 11:04:12 Loading tasklist configuration from
/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
2010-07-08 11:44:14 hobbitlaunch starting
2010-07-08 11:44:14 Loading tasklist configuration from
/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
2010-07-08 12:54:23 hobbitlaunch starting
2010-07-08 12:54:23 Loading tasklist configuration from
/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
[xymon at dubesxserver logs]$

On the The xymon server (mjolnir), the only thing I could spot in the logs
is the following:

[xymon at mjolnir xymon]$ grep dubesxserver /var/log/xymon/history.log
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update
/home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.memory - color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update
/home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.files - color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.msgs
- color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update
/home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.ports - color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update
/home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.procs - color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.disk
- color unchanged (purple)
2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.cpu
- color unchanged (purple)

There are no ghost clients.
The two ESX boxes are the only two FQDN hosts in an entirely non-FQDN
environment.
I think I got this right in bb-hosts, but too much of a coincidence not to
mention it.

[xymon at mjolnir etc]$ grep dubesx bb-hosts
10.11.12.11  dubesxserver  # CLIENT:dubesxserver.mydomain.com !telnet !ftp
ssh !smtp
10.11.12.12  dubesxserver2 # CLIENT:dubesxserver2.mydomain.com !telnet !ftp
ssh !smtp

So... what am I missing here?


Also, reading through previous posts, I've amended the df section of
hobbitclient-linux on the xymon client to be as follows:

echo "[df]"
sudo /usr/sbin/vdf -P | egrep -v
"\/vmfs\/devices|none|tmpfs|shmfs|unknown|iso9660" | sed -e '/^[^      ][^
]*$/{
N
s/[     ]*\n[   ]*/ /
}'

The data seem to arrive ok to the xymon server (the below is take from the
http://mjolnir/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=dubesxserver&SERVICE=disk page)

Filesystem         1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda2              5036316   2091244   2689240      44% /
/dev/sda1               101089     29317     66553      31% /boot
/dev/sda7              2008080    160456   1745616       9% /var/log
/vmfs/volumes/45e4461c-a5352206-a179-0019b9b80358     1298923520 996801536
302121984  76% /vmfs/volumes/Dubesxserver_Storage1
/vmfs/volumes/4a48df4f-c3b2e5bb-d72c-00188b44e922      419430400 351988736
67441664  83% /vmfs/volumes/ESX_LUN_Compton
/vmfs/volumes/4be031bd-23a8786b-9e26-00188b44e922      943456256 839100416
104355840  88% /vmfs/volumes/4be031bd-23a8786b-9e26-00188b44e922

but all the disks graph are blank, i.e. the six filesystems are listed ok
in the graphs, but none is graphed and all six say:

<partition name>  nan (cur)   nan (man)   nan (min)   nan (avg)


Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, here?

Cheers

Loris


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