[Xymon] Issues after upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5

[Ryan Skadberg]

Any help here?  I've tried a number of different things to attempt to solve
these on my own, but nothing has worked.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!
Skadz


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ryan Skadberg <skadz at skadz.com> wrote:

> Hi All -
>
>   I've been running hobbit/xymon for a long time, but I've finally just
> joined the list due to a number of issues after I upgraded from 4.2.3 to
> 4.3.5.  I walked through and fixed all the file names and everything SEEMS
> ok, but am seeing a number of strange things:
>
> a) When I start up xymon, I don't get my previous state back.  The xymond
> options have:
>
> --restart=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
>
> And the files has data:
>
> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
>
> But when I restart the server or service, I seem to lose all data and
> anything that has been disabled or acked is now once again back to it's
> starting state.
>
> b) I can't seem to add new machines.  I add a machine to hosts.cfg and
> analysis.cfg and it shows up on the web page, but it never seems to
> actually receive any data.  I've tried reloading the service, but that
> doesn't seem to help.  I even tried something like:
>
> xymon localhost 'enable machine.company.com'
>
> But it did not help.  I see on the Ghost client page that it seems to
> recognize the correlation as it has a candidate, but isn't doing anything.
>  Do I need to do something different with this newer version to enable a
> machine instead of just adding it to the two files?
>
> c) Last issue is very similar to the previous issue.  I removed a machine
> from the hosts.cfg file, then ran:
>
> xymon localhost 'drop machine.company.com'
>
> But when it didn't check in for an hour, it still seemingly went purple
> and sent out emails/pages.  I did a reload on the service and this now
> seems to have stopped, but I don't think it should have happened in the
> first place.
>
> d) I get startup errors that don't seem to make a ton of sense:
>
> In xymonlaunch.log, I see:
>
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 xymonlaunch starting
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading tasklist configuration from
> /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot open directory
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading hostnames
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot load host data
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading saved state
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot access checkpoint file
> /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up signal handlers
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up xymond channels
> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up logfiles
>
>
> As I said, I am seeing all of the hosts that I have in the system and have
> double checked the permissions and the xymon user can most definitely
> access all of the files, so why am I getting these errors?
>
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ whoami
> xymon
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ wc -l /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ ls -als /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
> 31756 -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 32474378 Oct 26 17:54
> /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
>
> I am also seeing:
>
> 2011-10-26 17:54:50 Cannot load host data
>
> in my xymond.log every 10 minutes.  As I said, any files seem to be
> accessible as far as I can tell, but maybe since the error message is not
> very verbose, I am not looking in the right place.
>
> I know these probably all seem like newbie questions, but I have done all
> the debugging I seem to be able to do and can't figure anything out on
> these.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Skadz
>
>
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