[Xymon] Conn test fails after server reboot

[Steven Carr]

What's the ping command set to in your server configuration file? are you
using the 'xymonping' command or 'fping'? Make sure that which ever command
you are using has the sticky bit set on the actual executable to allow the
xymon user to run it.

Steve


On 13 July 2012 09:38, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:45 +1000, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> > How long did you wait between the reboot and restarting Xymon?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:35 PM, John Horne
> > <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >         Using Xymon 4.3.7 I have noticed that if I reboot the Xymon
> >         server then the 'conn' test fails for all the clients. E.g.:
> >         ============================
> >         Thu Jul 12 10:24:11 2012 conn NOT ok
> >         Service conn on dns1 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
> >         System unreachable for 5 poll periods (984 seconds)
> >         ============================
> >         If, from the server, I run 'ping' to the client then that
> >         works fine. So does fping. If I stop then start the Xymon
> >         service on the server then the client conn tests all report
> >         ok.
> >
> Hello,
>
> I have waited various amounts of time, from as soon as I could log in
> (about a minute or two since rebooting), up to about an hour.
>
> I should have added that after a reboot, and when the conn tests are
> red, then they stay red! Yet the clients are all up and running, and are
> pingable. At what time I restart Xymon seems to make no difference, once
> it is done then the tests start to turn green.
>
> I can only assume that there is some initial condition which causes the
> ping to fail, but that it remains in force until Xymon is restarted.
> Very odd. I will investigate, but am a little lost as to why, say after
> 5, 10, 60 (!) mins, the tests do not automatically turn green.
>
> I added 'trace' to one client in hosts,cfg, and it shows the traceroute
> working fine but the test is still red and saying the ping failed.
>
>
>
> John.
>
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