[Xymon] Xymon on RHEL3 - not working?

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 15:22 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Xymon 4.3.7 running as server on a CentOS 6 box - no problems. I
> have a mixture of RHEL3, 4, 5 and 6, and CentOS 5 & 6 clients. These all
> work fine except for the RHEL3 client. That one shows purple for the
> cpu, disk, files, memory and procs tests. The tests seem to have picked
> up some data from the first run after starting up, but since then they
> seem to have reported nothing (and hence purple).
> 
> I have been looking into this for a while now, and am at a bit of a loss
> as to why just this one client is having a problem. I have stopped the
> firewall on both client and server, but that makes no difference. A
> tcpdump shows that data is being sent to/from the client/server.
>
Actually that is not quite true. Packets are sent to/from the client and
server. However, the data relates to other tests - ntp, smtp etc, and
not the cpu, memory etc tests.

In reply to others:

/tmp is not full, plenty of space available.

Although an earlier Hobbit version may work on RHEL3, I think that is
avoiding the problem. (a) this is Xymon, not Hobbit, and (b) if this
problem is hiding some other fault that may/may not be affecting other
O/Ses then I would rather sort out the problem before it really does
start to affect our other RHEL/CentOS clients. But thanks for the
suggestion anyway. Yes, RHEL3 does use a 2.4 kernel.




John.

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