[xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery

[Josh Luthman]

It would take all of 10 minutes to install one on a Virtual Machine!

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:55 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>> Are you prepared to share it?
>
> Of course, but it is not ready for public consumption yet. The book
> quality is at stage of Alpha. (Alph, beta,Gold).
>
> Josh, do you have access to Fedora 1x machine at home/work ?
> if so, I can release the source to you so you can work on it :)
>
> tj
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com> wrote:
>>>> LOL!  Funny, but kinda rude.
>>>>
>>> Josh didn't mean to be rude.
>>>
>>> There was a book called "Hobbit RTFM" created using LaTeX by me. it is
>>> a book composed of Henrik's documentation(html,troff material etc)
>>> with Table of Contents and index.
>>> I showed him a while back.
>>> This is quite labor intensive even I only try to put the existing docs together.
>>>
>>> The book should be renamed to "Collection of Xymon Docs". so nobody
>>> will got offended.
>>>
>>>
>>> tj
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:50 PM
>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
>>>>
>>>> To my knowledge the best thing that relates to this is T.J.'s RTFM
>>>> guide.  I browsed through it when the IRC channel was first
>>>> created...long ago.
>>>>
>>>> You can always ask logical questions after searching the docs in IRC.
>>>>
>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>> Suite 1337
>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> Yes, that is only for disabling alerting to create a maintenance window.
>>>>>> It doesn't stop the checks from occurring. Thanks.
>>>>> Great, I feel like a beginner now. Is there any day-to-day operations-manual
>>>>> in the Xymon-documentation/wiki somewhere? I think I've missed the basic
>>>>> Xymon operation-guidelines somehow.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> /melgaard
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Have you disabled alerting for that host or commented it out in your
>>>>>> > bb-hosts? The way to disable a "check" for a host is to remove the check or
>>>>>> > comment out the host in the bb-hosts. If you have just disabled the
>>>>>> > "alerting", then it will continue to do the "check", just not alert you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've used the Enable/Disable-options in he Administration-part of Xymon,
>>>>>> to disable the tests (the hobbit-enadis.sh-script) - is that just
>>>>>> alert-disabling?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /melgaard
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> >> Hi,
>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>> >> One of our AD-servers went down for maintenance for 1 week, and I
>>>>>>> >> disabled
>>>>>>> >>  the conn+dns tests in Xymon for that period. Now the "bbtest" column
>>>>>>> >>  suddenly goes yellow, and indicates that DNS lookups takes 450+
>>>>>>> >> seconds
>>>>>>> >>  now (indicating that the DNS-check for the maintenanced server is
>>>>>>> >> still
>>>>>>> >>  active).
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > No, it indicates that the Xymon server is taking a long time to resolve
>>>>>>> > host
>>>>>>> > names to IP addresses. You may need to configure the DNS client
>>>>>>> > settings on the
>>>>>>> > Xymon server (e.g. adjust the 'server' parameters in /etc/resolv.conf).
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > If you have most IP addresses hardcoded correctly in bb-hosts, you may
>>>>>>> > want to
>>>>>>> > add the 'testip' flag to the relevant lines of bb-hosts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But why is the check still running against the AD-host I've disabled? It
>>>>>>> looks like its that exact dns-check that takes 450 seconds to run (timeout).
>>>>>>> Looking at the DNS-statistics:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DNS tests executed                          4602546.200466
>>>>>>>  450.096498
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> which is the normal checks + the 450 second timeout. All other dns-checks
>>>>>>> run fine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shouldnt I except something like this (from the conn checks):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "System unreachable for 764 poll periods (363317 seconds)"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> instead of:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Service dns on xxx07 is OK
>>>>>>> Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test
>>>>>>> Host appears to be down
>>>>>>> Timeout
>>>>>>> Seconds: 450.003"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> when I've disabled all the checks on the host, and the server is powered
>>>>>>> down? Or am I missing something here?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /melgaard
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