Re: [hobbit] procs monitor size fluctuations

[Gus Ferrer <gus.ferrer (at) mail.cuny.edu>]

Good catch!  That's exactly what was happening.   A misconfigured  
start-up script was setting the hostname to another server's name.

Thanks very much,
Gus


On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Brand, Thomas R. wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > ...  my 'procs'
> > monitor is changing from red to green every polling cycle
> >
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 27186 Apr  9 16:35  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:35:13_2009
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 16714 Apr  9 16:39  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:39:10_2009
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 28108 Apr  9 16:40  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:40:11_2009
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 16714 Apr  9 16:44  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:44:14_2009
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 27186 Apr  9 16:45  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:45:09_2009
> > -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit users 16714 Apr  9 16:49  
> > Thu_Apr_9_16:49:17_2009
>
> I've seen this behavior when a test system was reporting to the server
> using the same hostname as a production system.
>
> Notice the timestamp on the files; 16:39& 16:40, 16:44 & 16:45...
>
> System 'a' reports at "Thu_Apr_9_16:44:14", followed a minute later  
> when
>
> System 'b' reports at "Thu_Apr_9_16:45:09"
>
>
> Check the procs web page for the system; just above the graph, it  
> states
> what client IP reported the message:
> 	Status message received from 172.28.60.11
> See if this changes when the screen flips color
>
> Tom
>
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