[Xymon] conn Flapping every 2.5 minutes

[Shea, Graeme A]

Thankyou Henrik, that got it.

Somehow I had configured a remote bbProxy wrong :-#. I copied in the entries for another set of simple hostnames simular to the ones having the issue and forgot to update them. It's strange because those simple host names must be resolving somewhere up the DNS tree so the display on my main server was as expected (except for the failing conn test).

So simple when you know what you're doing.

Many thanks

Graeme



-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2011 7:41 PM
To: Shea, Graeme A
Subject: Re: [Xymon] conn Flapping every 2.5 minutes

Hi Graeme,

> I have both an IP address and "testip" in the bb-host file. The line is
>
> "10.X.Y.21 1091EDUDC01   #testip"  but I still get the error.

very strange. The "info" status column also says "Network tests use: 
IP-address" ?

Is it possible you have another server doing network tests? If you check 
the "Message received from..." line at the bottom of the status (it's in 
the historical status logs also), do they all mention the same source of 
the status?

Try running

    xymoncmd xymonnet --debug 1091EDUDC01

(or "bbcmd bbtest-net" if you're on 4.2.x) and send me the output.
That will show what the network test is doing. You can also try running 
it with the "--no-update" status a few times to simulate the test that 
Xymon performs, without actually updating the status. Of course it would 
be most interesting if you could get the debug output from one of the 
runs that actually fails.


Regards,
Henrik

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