[Xymon] Bug in ping tests?

[Josh Luthman]

I haven't seen this in the last year or more on this server.  I had
sporadic issues on another service, but by simply moving hardware (from
dedicated Atom to a ESXi platform) it was resolved.

The page said it was red for 2-6 minutes.  I knew the test happens every 5,
so I would have expected a retest to clear it (hosts were ping responsive
from the shell).

What log are you referring to?

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:

>
>
> > I have a front page with about a dozen hosts and then sub pages.  Every
> > CONN test on the front page failed.  Each and every host on the subpages
> > (well over a dozen) was just fine.  After 6 minutes I restarted the
> > hobbitd
> > processes.  They all came right back.
> >
> > I am running 4.2.3.  Using fping to check
> > - hobbitserver.cfg:FPING="/usr/sbin/fping"
> >
> > Has anyone seen this?
>
>
> Hmm. It's possible that hobbitnet (?) died or was hung up... Or that the
> pages weren't representative of the same run (eg, bbgen could have died
> during its generation).
>
> Questions: Do you recall the page timestamps being the same? If you
> clicked through to the tests when it was happening, did the (dynamic) test
> page match the (static) color in the grid? Has the problem started
> recently, is it repeating, and was there anything interesting in the logs
> at the time?
>
> -jc
>
>
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