[Xymon] conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)

[Gonzalez Peto]

I can see now  that the frequency is one hour. Thats the first pattern.
I cannot find a pattern among the loads of hosts I have in bb-hosts

Anyone?

Henrik?


Thank you very much

Peto



Hello
>
> And thank you all very much in advance for taking the time to read it :)
> I have XYMON 4.2.3 on Fedora 10 - its a vmware virtual machine.
> XYMON is in /usr/lib/xymonuser/server
>
> I get these kind of emails "Hobbit [232357] HOSTNAME:conn stopped reporting
> (PURPLE)"
> For a 2nd day now. I cannot determine a pattern and frequency yet, nor
> time-wise nor hostname-wise
>
> What happened? - I ran out of space. And then it turns out I ran out of
> inodes. What I did:
> 1.
> cd /var/log/
> tar -zcvf xymon_logs_2011-april.tar.gz xymon
> cd xymon
> I deleted *.log files
>
> 2.
> I deleted the largest messages log file from Fedora, it was 2.1 GB.
>
> 3.
> inodes, full, df -i
> In my case: The directory /usr/lib/xymonuser/data/histlogs/ keeps huge
> amount of historical data about each hobbit client. I made tar.gz of
> everything in histlogs. I then did rm -rf for everything inside histlogs.
> Now 66% of inodes are free and I have ~6GB free disk space.
>
> All works fine except that I get "conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)".
>
> 4.
> To resolve "conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)"
> a. Stopped xymon
> b. Backup of "/usr/lib/xymonuser/server/tmp/"
> c. Delete all in "/usr/lib/xymonuser/server/tmp/"
> d. Restart fedora 10
> f.      Start xymon. Works all ok.
> d.     I still get the emails :(
>
> I searched Internet and didnt anything else, apart from this:
> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-February/017868.html - there are few
> posts like these, I am not sure how this is relevant to my case.
>
> sendmail queue is empty. Maybe all these messages are being generated
> because for a while it was not working, between steps 2 and 3 - I didnt
> figure out immediately that I am out of inodes. So xymon was mostly purple
> for many hosts and services.
>
>
> Thank you very much again
>
> Henrik - Thanks for this tool
>
> Take care all
>
>
> Thanks!
> Peto
>
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