[Xymon] Issues/confusion with 4.3.3

Phil Crooker Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au
Wed May 18 04:11:19 CEST 2011


>>> On 5/18/2011 at 11:23 AM, in message
<1305681783.1674.7.camel at moses.judahnet.net>, "James B. Huber"
<jbhuber at judahnet.net> wrote: 
> Hi Phil,
>   Yes the services that are working are on the same server, it is
the
> xymon server, and indeed as the xymon user I can telnet to the
> machines's IP on the port of clamd and it works just fine...
> 
> Doesn't make any sense to me, I go back to 4.2.3 and it works fine.
Got
> to be something simple I am overlooking or the clamd service check
in
> xymon isn't actually going to the IP of the machine...but I've got
no
> clue how to debug that and see what it thinks it is trying to open
the
> connection to.
> 
> Jim

Hi Jim,

I'm pretty new to xymon so don't know the guts yet... But, just in
general troubleshooting mode - try just a connection only test:

[clamd]
      port 3310

See if that works. Have you tried using the --debug option for
xymonnet? It does give quite a bit of info.

cheers.



> --
> 
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:45 +1000, Phil Crooker wrote:
>> It is odd. The other services you mention working, these are on the
same
>> host as the clamd? If not, try one just to see that something works.

>> 
>> When you say you can telnet to the clamd port, is that from the
xymon
>> server as the xymon (or whichever) user? Have you tried a simple
>> connection - no send/expect?
>> 
>> 
>> >>> On 5/17/2011 at 11:35 PM, in message
>> <1305639320.4811.5.camel at GNSD830-01>,
>> "James B. Huber" <jbhuber at judahnet.net> wrote: 
>> > Hi folks,
>> >   Have been using BigBrother, then Hobbit, now Xymon for many
years.
>> I
>> > recently built a new machine and did a clean install/build of
xymon
>> > 4.3.3 and am having some issues/confusion I hope the list can
help
>> me
>> > with.
>> > 
>> >   My first major issue is with the "clamd" service check, this
>> worked
>> > fine under Fedora-13 and Xymon-4.2.3, however (new O/S is RHEL
6.0
>> > Workstation) with Xymon 4.3.3 all it does is fail saying:
>> > "Service unavailable (Connection refused)"....
>> > 
>> > I can telnet to port 3310, type "PING" and it comes back with
"PONG"
>> > which is what the protocols.cfg says...I have tried turning off
>> > "banner", no help....I am doubtless missing something simple...
>> > 
>> > FYI, all the other service check I use work fine (IE: DNS, IMAP,
>> NTP,
>> > SMTP)....WHat am I missing ?
>> > 
>> > Regards, and TIA,
>> > Jim
>> > --
>> 





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