[Xymon] xymonnet: TCPtest error 1 seen on open connection for ���.ssh

[Mike Burger]

On 2016-06-10 3:02 pm, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> On Fri, June 10, 2016 10:46 am, Mike Burger wrote:
>> On 2016-06-10 1:02 am, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>>> On Thu, June 9, 2016 12:53 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>> Premature send.
>>>> 
>>>> I have 3 sites for which I've configured the ssh test in order to
>>>> validate that an SFTP service is answering.
>>>> 
>>>> This error status has popped up 10 times, today, at last 15 times
>>>> yesterday.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running Xymon 4.3.27, installed via compiled source RPM from
>>>> terabithia on a Red Hat 6.6 system.
>>>> 
>>>> On 2016-06-09 3:48 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
>>>>> Good afternoon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Recently, I've noted quite a few instances of Xymon going yellow 
>>>>> for
>>>>> the xymonnet test, with the following output:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Error output:
>>>>> TCPtest error 1 seen on open connection for ���.ssh
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Mike Burger
>>>> http://www.bubbanfriends.org
>>>> 
>>>> "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
>>>> just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Mike,
>>> 
>>> Can you see if the following patch helps? There's definitely the 
>>> output
>>> bug (which this should fix), but it's also very curious that you're
>>> seeing
>>> so many post-open TCP errors. It seems like the previous logic should
>>> have
>>> caught this before that flag was set, which makes it all the more odd
>>> that
>>> false negative situations hadn't been noted before.
>> 
>> Ok...I'll just have to figure out how to add the patch to the rpmbuild
>> process. As soon as I figure it out and get it worked in, I'll let you
>> know how I make out.
>> 
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> These can be used for testing, if you like:
> 
> http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el6/SRPMS/xymon-4.3.27-2.el6.src.rpm
> 
> and http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el6/x86_64/*
> 
> 
> HTH,
> -jc

I'm an idiot...on this particular server, I forgot that I had installed 
via tarball. I've applied the originally supplied patch, recompiled and 
reinstalled. I'll let you know how it goes.

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever 
just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1