[Xymon] xymonnet runtime long on ping tests results sent

[Michael Baydoun]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Baydoun <indymichaelb at gmail.com>wrote:

> The tests are running on the xymon server itself
>
> Somehow, 6 days ago, the xymon server processes were starting using root
> (even though that would seem to be impossible, as there is a username check
> in /usr/lib64/xymon/server/hobbit.sh).  The OS was patched around that
> time.
>
> That was causing histlog files to be created with root ownership and mode
> 600, preventing accessing those details from the web gui.
>
> I killed all the xymon processes and restarted (service xymon start),
> which started them up correctly as user xymon
> However, once I did that, the Ping test results all started failing, even
> though fping from the command line to the clients was working correctly,
> and xymonnet went yellow with the long run time warning.
> Eventually, to get the ping tests working again for now I had to bypass
> the username check in /usr/lib64/xymon/server/hobbit.sh and start
> everything back up as the root user
>
> I will have to find a time to switch it back to the xymon user, figure out
> the ping test failures, and correct all the histlog file permissions.
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
>> On 30-04-2012 16:13, Michael Baydoun wrote:
>>
>>> What could cause a very long time to send ping test results?
>>>
>>> PING test completed (166 hosts)              593954.047266
>>>  9.117369
>>> PING test results sent                       594410.634681
>>>  456.587415
>>>
>>
>> Usually a network problem between the host doing the network tests, and
>> the Xymon server - if those are two different systems.
>>
>> If you're running the network tests on the Xymon server itself, then I
>> have no idea why that would take so long.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henrik
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>
>

To followup, I figured out this issue.  The ownership
of /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymonping was changed at some point, which
clears the set-uid. Setting owner to root first, then chmod 4755 resolved
the issue.
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