[Xymon] conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)

[Clark, Sean]

Did you check the notifications.log to see the alerts are actually going out at the times you are worried about?

If that is the case, then it's something in your xymon configuration

If the notifications.log does not match with the emails you are seeing, then it is similar but not the same to the issue you referenced earlier




From: Gonzalez Peto <jkokino at gmail.com<mailto:jkokino at gmail.com>>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:06:50 -0400
To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)

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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