[Xymon] Missing client memory test!?

Sat Nov 7 00:15:23 CET 2015

Hey, Tim... 

Thx for responding!

Re: "... the field in the mem|memory...": sorry -- not quite sure what you mean... If you're referring to the "memUse" test, that's a customized "ext" program I wrote, independent of the standard "memory"

Re: the MEM* limits: In analysis.cfg we do have those set for some hosts, but not for this one in particular. The class=... does have default values though.

Re: zones: this host only has the global zone...

;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCloskey [mailto:tm at freedom.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 3:56 PM
To: Mills,David (HHSC Contractor); xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: Missing client memory test!?

>  However, the "memory" test status is simply missing! For example, on the server:
> ...
> status hostname.memUse GREEN
> ...

It does not look to be missing it looks to be misconfigured/munged somewhere.  Is the field in the mem|memory display green with that single '-' ?  

Do you have in the equiv of clients.cfg :
MEMPHYS 100 101
MEMSWAP 87 90
MEMACT  90 97
values may not match, but do you have these set anywhere in your server config?

Just curious, this may not be relevant but is the client running on the Global Zone, or on a Child Zone?   

Unrelated, but if it ever hits you there is likely somthing on the board you can search for:

The only issue I ever had with the memory test on Solaris 10 (x86) related to really odd reports similar to the following.
Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
red Physical     4294966985M      30720M 4294967295%
green Swap                173M      29153M          0%

Tim

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From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Mills,David (HHSC Contractor) [David.Mills at hhsc.state.tx.us]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 12:36 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Missing client memory test!?

Hey, all...

Have a puzzle to solve: we have a host (Solaris 10) running our tried-and-true version of Xymon (4.3.2) which is functioning just fine except for one test: the standard "memory" test.

It has worked fine in the past (I'm pretty sure!) but at some point we noticed Xymon isn't posting the "status" results for this test on the web page (it's a '-').

Debugging I've done so far:

*         On the client side, found the output file corresponding to "$MSGTMPFILE" / "$MSGFILE" used in the "xymonclient.sh" script. It _does_ contain valid data for the "[memory]" stanza:

[memory]

0 8 0 39549560 48447184 1039 3853 3934 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 20276 71323 29065 57 16 28

*         From this client, manually ran the command to post the data to the server:

$ ~xymon/client/bin/xymon <server IP> "@" < msg.hostname.txt
log:/var/adm/messages:10240

ignore %nxge0|nxge1|nxge4|nxge5|nxge0|107833

*         On the server, ran:

$ ~xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondboard host=hostname "
hostname|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
hostname|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|10.235.130.17
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0||-1|clear 
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|Files status 
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|at Fri Nov  6 
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|14:20:43 CST 
hostname|files|clear||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|2015
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|10.235.130.17|
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|-1|green 
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|System logs at 
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|Fri Nov  6 
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|14:20:43 CST 
hostname|msgs|green||1434028386|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|2015
hostname|ports|red||1446840042|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|10.235.130.17|2
hostname|ports|red||1446840042|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|7225|red Fri 
hostname|ports|red||1446840042|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|Nov  6 14:20:43 
hostname|ports|red||1446840042|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|CST 2015 - 
hostname|ports|red||1446840042|1446841258|1446843058|0|0|Ports NOT ok
...

(The timestamps are current, matching the most recent version of the client file sent)

*         However, the "memory" test status is simply missing! For example, on the server:

$ ~xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondboard host=hostname fields=msg" | perl -pe 's!\\n!\n!gm' > out $ grep '^status' out status hostname.files clear Files status at Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 status hostname.msgs green System logs at Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 status/group:unix-sadm hostname.ports red Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 - Ports NOT ok status/group:unix-sadm hostname.procs red Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 - Processes NOT ok status hostname.disk green Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 - Filesystems OK status hostname.cpu green Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 up: 249 days, 10 users, 956 procs, load=21.63 status hostname.prtdiag green Fri Nov  6 14:25:48 CST 2015 status hostname.raid green Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015 Veritas Volume Manager OK status hostname.meta green Fri Nov  6 14:25:47 CST 2015 status hostname.zones green Fri Nov  6 14:25:46 CST 2015
status+30 hostname.conn green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Fri Nov  6 
status+14:23:37 2015 conn ok
status hostname.memUse GREEN
status hostname.iostat GREEN
status hostname.sar green Fri Nov  6 14:25:50 CST 2015
status+30 hostname.ssh green <!-- [flags:OrdastLe] --> Fri Nov  6 
status+14:19:58 2015 ssh ok
status+30 hostname.ntp green <!-- [flags:OrdastLe] --> Fri Nov  6 
status+14:19:58 2015 ntp ok

Note: no "memory" status line!

Help?

Thanks!

david

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