[Xymon] "purple storm" example

[Jon Dustin]

Greetings -

This evening I had the luck to experience a "purple storm" with Xymon v4.3.7, *and* I had enough time to try a few items to combat the problem. Here is what I tried:

- applied patch from Henrik dated May 2 http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2012-May/034525.html 
patch -p0 <dns.patch ; make ; make install ; service xymon stop ; service xymon start

- checked my /etc/hosts file

I do have a few non-standard Xymon configuration settings:

- am NOT using FQDN

- tasks.cfg: CMD xymonnet --report --ping --ping-tasks=4 --dns-timeout=5 --checkresponse --source-ip=130.111.135.60 --dns=ip --shuffle

- hosts.cfg: 130.111.135.60   shepherd        # testip ssh bbd smtp https://shepherd.uct.usm.maine.edu/

The xymonnet column for shepherd remained purple until the DNS servers came back. It almost seemed like Xymon could not "find itself"?

Any thoughts on ways to combat this issue?

Thanks (as always) for a great product, and for any assistance you can provide.

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Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME  207-780-4152