[Xymon] Xymon say "No port checks defined", but it configure to check in analysis and the same for procs

[Torsten Richter]

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On 27.01.2020 17:33, Torsten Richter wrote:
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> - From my POV there are 2 opportunities why this happens:
>
> 1. You have a second XYmon server which has no checks defined for that
> host and intermittently sends this erroneous data to your primary server.
>
> 2. The client message is too big and does not contain ALL data.
> This can happen e.g. if there is a very long process listing sent with
> the client data.
> When the checks turn to clear just click on the "Client data" link
> available on each check page of a server OR on the "clientlog" check for
> that server and check if the message is complete.
> A complete message would start with the line:
>
> [collector:]
>
> and end with 4 lines with time information like:
>
> [clock]
> epoch: 1580142177.579044
> local: 2020-01-27 17:22:57 CET
> UTC: 2020-01-27 16:22:57 GMT
>
> If those 4 lines are missing then your message is too big to be
> transferred and processed and you'll need to tweak some settings in
> xymonserver.cfg like MAXMSG or MAXLINE.
>
> Also, if you have the check "xymond" for your XYmon server check if that
> check changed the color when the other checks were flapping to clear.
>
> Regards,
> Torsten
>
>
> On 27.01.2020 13:41, diffusion at bulot-fr.com wrote:
>> Le Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:48:06 +0000,
>> John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> a écrit :
>
>
>>> If Xymon is processing the client data netstat output, then I suspect
>>> the '$' in your regex above is causing the problem. The netstat
>>> output includes other info after the port number, but your regex is
>>> saying it should be the end of the line.
>
>> I've already try a simple check, but nothing better, this one not more :
>
>
>> PORT LOCAL=%[\.:]3306 STATE=LISTEN min=1 TEXT=mysql3306
>
>> By the way, i'll try procs also, and it's the same trouble :
>
>> PROC mysqld     1 1
>>   WARNING: Flapping status
>>   "clear" No process checks defined
>
>> strange !
>
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