Re: [hobbit] Xymon Client dies unexpectedly?

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

That sounds like the client runs once, sends some info, then quits.  Thirty
minutes later the display goes purple because no further reports were
received.  Are there any core files??

Ralph Mitchell


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:26 AM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl (at) jbldata.com> wrote:

> Having an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot it.
>
> I'm using Xymon 4.2.3 on Debian (kernel 2.4.27-2-386).
>
> I have one client which was was installed as user 'xymon'
> (configure/make/make install).
>
> I run the client with 'runclient.sh start' and I see the services go great
> on the web interface.  All looks great.
>
> After about 30 minutes however, the client seems to stop sending reports to
> the server, and all services go purple.
>
> Here's what I see when looking at the process listing on the client when
> things are working correctly:
>
> xymon (at) JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
> xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
> /home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
> --config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
> --log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
> --pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid
> xymon    25724     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2
> 1>/home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707 2>&1; mv
> /home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707
> /home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01
>
> And then when the client stops reporting to the server, the process listing
> looks like this:
>
> xymon (at) JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
> xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
> /home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
> --config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
> --log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
> --pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid
>
>
> So other than the virtual memory stats missing from the process list, it
> seems like it should still be sending reports.
>
> I've checked the log files in 'logs/' and 'tmp/' but found nothing useful.
>
> This is a pretty fresh install of the Xymon server/client, so there isn't
> really much that hsould be affecting it.
>
> Should I be running the client as root?  Does it provide more logs that
> way?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
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