[Xymon] Formatting errors on log files
Greg Krpan
gjkrpan43 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 00:27:51 CEST 2016
I've included an entire "SVCS" status below on a failed status screen. As
you can see, it is random as to how and where the output corrupts,
On the Windows systems, I run BBWin for the client (version 0.13). I
should be able to put the xymond_client process into debug mode to monitor
for a while as well.. The problem is less predominant on Linux clients
than on Windows, but it is occurring on both.
The server is running on CentOS 7 with current patches.
# uname -a
Linux ************************* 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Sep
18 13:04:29 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linu
# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
[# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-7"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="7"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7"
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:
> Hmm. Does the data after the corrupted lines appear to match the remaining
> data for the server in question? From the sample below it seems not (as I
> believe this is reported in alphabetical order), which might indicate
> indicate a broader memory corruption issue going on within xymond_client,
> where it's somehow losing track of the end or garbling the data in the
> buffer being used for holding status output. If it's causing a false
> positive, then it's not merely the final output that's the problem, but
> something occurring earlier in processing.
>
> What OS+distro is the server running on?
> Any chance you might be able to run xymond_client in debug mode for a bit
> while this is occurring?
>
> -jc
>
>
>
> On 10/17/2016 7:56 AM, Greg Krpan wrote:
>
> Hi JC-
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I am using Xymon 4.3.27 currently. The raw client data looks fine- there
> are no corrupted lines and no added brackets or special characters that I
> can see. This only occurs on the status pages.
>
> The server has been running since May, and this particular problem started
> at the end of Sept., after running Windows Update on my servers, but as
> both Windows and Linux clients are showing the behavior, I have ruled out
> the updates as the issue.
>
> I have tried restarting the service with no effect on behavior and there
> is nothing in the log files that show a problem that I can see. The level
> of false positives due to formatting errors has remained relatively
> consistent, and tends to be limited to the PROCS (Win, Linux) and SVCS (Win
> only) tests, but occasionally will see the same error occurring on the DISK
> and CPU tests, although that is significantly less frequent, and is not
> across all configured machines. The PROCS/SVCS tests are showing random
> errors on one machine or another approximately every 5 minutes.
>
> Thanks
> Greg.
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 6:52 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, October 14, 2016 3:52 pm, Greg Krpan wrote:
>> > Recently, my monitoring has been generating frequent errors that are
>> > false,
>> > due to improper formatting, It is happening on both Windows and Linux
>> > clients. I've included an example of how the tests are sending data
>> back
>> > to the xymon server. I have not made any changes to my client or server
>> > configurations. Has anyone else been experiencing this behavior, or
>> know
>> > of a fix?
>> >
>> > Greg.
>> >
>> > Name StartupType Status
>> > DisplayName
>> > AeLookupSvc manual stopped
>> > Application Experience
>> > ALG manual stopped
>> > Application Layer Gateway Service
>> > AppIDSvc manual stopped
>> > Application Identity
>> > Appinfo manual stopped
>> > Application Information
>> > AppMgmt manual stopped
>> > Application Management
>> > AppReadiness manual stopped App
>> > Readiness
>> > AppXSvc manual stopped AppX
>> > Deployment Service (AppXSVC)
>> > AudioEndpointBuilder manual
>> > toppe] Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
>> > Audiosrv manual stopped Windows
>> > Audio
>> > BBWin automatic started Big
>> > Brother Xymon Client
>> > BFE automatic started Base
>> > Filtering Engine
>> > BITS automatic started
>> > Background Intelligent Transfer Serv
>> > ce
>> > BrokerInfrastructure ] automatic started
>> > Background Tasks Infrastructure Service
>> > Browser disabled stopped Computer
>> > Browser
>> > CcmExec automatic started SMS
>> Agent
>> > Host
>> > CertPropSvc manual started
>> > Certificate Propagation
>> > CmRcService disabled stopped
>> > Configuration Manager Remote Control
>> > COMSysApp manual
>> > started COM+ Sys]
>> > m Application
>> > CryptSvc]
>> > ]
>> > utomatic started Cr]
>> > tographic Services
>> > DcomLaunch ]
>> > automatic sta]
>> > ed DCOM Serv]
>> > Process Launcher
>> > defra]svc manual stopped Optimize
>> > drives
>> > DeviceAssociationService manual stopped Device
>> > Association Service
>>
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Is there anything unusual about the process names on the lines immediately
>> before the corruption? There's a known issue in that lines starting with a
>> bracket will cause missing data, and this can happen more frequently on
>> Windows servers just by virtue of some of the data that's coming across,
>> but that doesn't appear to be causing this specific issue.
>>
>>
>> Can you confirm which version of Xymon server you're using? Do you see the
>> same corruption in the "raw" Client Data for the affected servers, or is
>> it only occurring on the status pages?
>>
>> Also -- anything unusual in the log files? Has this problem been constant
>> since it started, or is it getting worse? Does restarting the xymon
>> service fix it (temporarily)?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> -jc
>>
>>
>
>
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> II, Roger Bruce Chaffee
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In honor of those who lost their lives exploring the final frontier:
Apollo 1; January 27, 1967 Virgil "Gus" Ivan Grissom, Edward Higgins White
II, Roger Bruce Chaffee
Space Shuttle Challenger, Mission STS-51-L; January 28, 1986 Francis R.
Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E.
McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Space Shuttle Columbia, Mission STS-107; February 1, 2003 Rick D. Husband,
William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown,
Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Ilan Ramon
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