[Xymon] TS - Multiple servers had PURPLE ICONs

[Betsy Schwartz]

Were they windows hosts? I gave up on BBWIN after too many similar incidents

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM,  <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:
> I just had multiple HPUX Virtual hosts and servers go PURPLE at the same
> time.
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>                 HOSTS OF VIRTUALS:      8
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>                 VIRTUALS:                         39
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> All of the hosts continued to answer a PING through the 20 minutes.
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> The hosts stopped sending in ICON info for around 20 minutes from subnet
> 128.170.227.x
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> All this traffic should be over port 1984.
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> All of the *NIX admins were in training during this time.
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> There were no reports of service interruption from the users.
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> After ALERTING of the PURPLE status, the hosts then received the client info
> and went GREEN.
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> None of the other Windows or *NIX servers had a problem.
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> Has anyone experienced this before?
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> I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS on Dell R-610 server.
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> Thanks,
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> Tom Schmitt
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