[Xymon] xymonfetch

Thu Nov 12 16:13:45 CET 2015

It gets even weirder. If I run it without xymoncmd, then it uses port 1984 (the xymonproxy) but then is trying to pull data from the machine the main server pulls from, and doesn’t even exist in the proxy’s hosts.cfg.

But when I run with xymoncmd, I get this. To me, it appears to be completely ignoring the command line:
$ xymonfetch --server=:1984 --log-interval=60 --id=1 --debug
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Transport setup is:
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 xymondportnumber = 1985
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 xymonproxyhost = NONE
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 xymonproxyport = 0
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Recipient listed as '204.155.140.159'
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Standard protocol on port 1985
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Will connect to address 204.155.140.159 port 1985
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Connect status is 0
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Sent 16 bytes
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Read 14206 bytes
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Closing connection
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Queuing request 1 to 10.6.0.15:1985 for remoteclient2: 'pullclient 1

'
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Queuing request 2 to 10.6.0.14:1985 for remoteclient: 'pullclient 1

'
2015-11-12 08:56:09 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.14:1985 (req 2): Connection refused
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Doing cleanup
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Next poll of remoteclient in 55 seconds
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Request completed: req 2, peer 10.6.0.14:1985, action was 2, type was 0
2015-11-12 08:56:09 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.15:1985 (req 1): Connection refused
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Doing cleanup
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Next poll of remoteclient2 in 48 seconds
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:09 Request completed: req 1, peer 10.6.0.14:1985, action was 2, type was 0
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:57 Queuing request 3 to 10.6.0.15:1985 for remoteclient2: 'pullclient 1

'
2015-11-12 08:56:57 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.15:1985 (req 3): Connection refused
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:57 Doing cleanup
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:57 Next poll of remoteclient2 in 52 seconds
28843 2015-11-12 08:56:57 Request completed: req 3, peer 10.6.0.15:1985, action was 2, type was 0

It makes no difference if I put  in –server=127.0.0.1:1984 or –server=204.155.140.159:1984.

From: Japheth Cleaver [mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:13 PM
To: Root, Paul T; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonfetch

On 11/11/2015 2:04 PM, Root, Paul T wrote:
I’m having issues with xymonfetch.

I have 2 xymon proxies, that also have the xymon server running as a backup to the main server on port 1985.  The proxy sends to the main server on port 1984 and to itself on port 1985.

I’m trying to add 2 new machines as clients of these proxy servers. They are outside a firewall that I don’t want to open, so I’m doing a fetch. Xymon-client is running on 1984, and msgcache is running.

Client  clientlaunch.cfg:
[msgcache]
#       DISABLED
        ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
        CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.pid
        LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.log

Proxy tasks.cfg:
[xymonfetch]
    ENVFILE /etc/xymon/xymonserver.cfg
    #CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonfetch --server=YOUR.XYMON.SERVER.IP --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.pid
    CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonfetch --server=127.0.0.1:1985 --log-interval=60 --id=1 --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.pid
    LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.log

Proxy hosts.cfg:
10.6.0.14  remoteclient                       # pulldata=10.6.0.14:1984 http://198.36.155.243
10.6.0.15  remoteclient2                     # pulldata=10.6.0.15:1984

I have a third xymon server, the development server, which is not a proxy, and the server runs on 1984. This pulls the data just fine from the remoteclients.

The xymonfetch.log file gets these errors:
2015-11-11 15:56:24 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.14:1985 (req 27): Connection refused
2015-11-11 15:56:41 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.15:1985 (req 28): Connection refused
2015-11-11 15:57:27 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.14:1985 (req 29): Connection refused
2015-11-11 15:57:44 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.6.0.15:1985 (req 30): Connection refused

The proxy servers are 4.3.10. The development server is 4.3.21. The main server is also 4.3.10, and it runs a fetch without issue, to other clients.

The clients are 4.3.10 (CentOS 5) and 4.3.21 (CentOS 6).

I am working on upgrading the proxy servers in OS (CentOS 5 -> 6) and Xymon (to 4.3.21). But not quite there yet. Another subject, but sending data from a proxy to another proxy does not work. So, when I have everything else, I may end up putting it in place, and hoping the proxy works….

Any ideas here? It seems like such a simple thing.

Does seem a bit odd. Either xymonfetch is not paying attention to pulldata, or it seems to want to reconnect back to the original host incorrectly for the client (config) reply. Can you try --debug on the xymonfetch process, or alternatively strace it, so we can see at which phase of the transaction that write is failing at?

On the second issue, I know xymonproxy is capable of doing proxy-proxy submission, as we used it pretty heavily for that (albeit with caveats at scale when dealing with TCP packet loss), does a 'ping' make it through at all when going on that path?

-jc
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