[Xymon] Xymon NetApp.pl Fails to load CPU Data

[Jeremy Laidman]

If the yellows are brief (<=5m), you could use delayyellow to suppress the
colour change for a short time, giving it a chance to come good again.

J


On 8 November 2013 03:05, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com> wrote:

>  So, as far is it being purple it was doing exactly what I told it to
> do.   D'oh.  I've changed the tag to status and it's turned green, however,
> I'm very doubtful that it continue to correctly return the status of the
> test.  I'll see if I can get the log entries from the  next time it goes
> yellow for unreturned status.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>  Jamison Maxwell
> jamison at newasterisk.com
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Jeremy Laidman [jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:27 PM
> *To:* Jamison Maxwell
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Xymon NetApp.pl Fails to load CPU Data
>
>   Yes, it's sending a data message with the word "green" in it.  A "data"
> message doesn't update the status/colour of a column, which would explain
> why you're getting a purple.  Only a "status" message can update the colour
> of a column.
>
>  J
>
>
>
> On 7 November 2013 04:24, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com> wrote:
>
>>   I've been running netapp.pl for the last couple of months, but all of
>> the sudden I've had nothing but trouble with the CPU test. At first, it was
>> failing to retrieve CPU data and turning yellow with no real explanation
>> that I could find for why it was failing. Now, I've added the *data* tag
>> to the bbcpucolumn in netapp.ini and it's staying purple. This would make
>> sense if it was actually failing to return the data, however, it appears
>> that it is in fact retrieving it correctly. I get these two log entries
>> when I grep for cpu:
>>
>>
>>
>> Wed Nov 6 11:05:06 2013:DEBUG: TEST=cpu, TYPE=data, EVENT=cpu,
>> SENDTYPE=2, TESTLIVE=Server Default, SUMREPTIME=0
>> Wed Nov 6 11:05:06 2013:DEBUG: BBDISPLAY: $XYMONSERVER, hostname:
>> $FILERNAME, type: data, event: cpu, time: 00:00:01, color=green
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, to my untrained eyes it appears that it's trying to send a green
>> status to Xymon, which is further backed up by having no holes in my RRD
>> graph. I would really appreciate any suggestions for how to proceed as I am
>> at a loss.
>>
>> Jamison Maxwell
>> jamison at newasterisk.com
>>
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