Re: [hobbit] Xymon crashing

[Larry Barber <lebarber (at) gmail.com>]

Try calling the test something besides "vmstat", I suspect that you are
stepping on a built in test of that name.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:58 AM, <DKDeckert (at) hormel.com> wrote:

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> I dont know if this will be related for the blog or not but i have to ask.
>
>
> Recently i put up a custom script in xymon that would use vmstat to monitor
> cpu utilization.
>
>
> All i did in the script was take a report tail it and 'awk'ed out what i
> wanted to read in and report it to xymon.
>
> For a graph i added cpu_util=vmstat"     in the hobbitserver.cfg file.
>
> Now in the /var/log/xymon/rrdstatus.log is reporting   "Too few lines (only
> 1 or 2) in vmstat report"
>
> our server will have a kernal panic and shutdown every couple minutes.  Now
> before this started we also updated the rrd daemon to the most recent
> version
>
> We are running xymon 4.2.2 on unix 2.6.X
>
> Does anyone have an idea of what could be going on.   I have had the
> reports going for a two weeks before this happened.  and now it just
> started.
>
> Thanks everyone
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