Re: [hobbit] Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout

[Phil Meech <pmeech (at) gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

I presume both laptops are on the same lan?  What are the subnet masks of
the Xymon server and client - also probably worth advising whether the VM
host resides on the same subnet as the client laptop?  I'm guessing it could
be a mask issue...

Cheers,
Phil

2009/11/9 Mark Whalley <Mark.Whalley (at) ingres.com>

>  Hi xymon/hobbit group
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> Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to set up a xymon with
> some success.
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> My setup so far.  I have xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 installed and running on a
> Fedora 11 Virtual Machine (VMWare server 1.0.9) on a Windows XP laptop.
> This xymon server appears to be working correctly with it monitoring itself
> (bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu etc) and happily doing connectivity tests to some
> remote linux/aix servers that I have access to at work.  So far, so good.
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> I now want to do some client monitoring.  Initially starting with the
> in-built monitoring tools (cpu, disk etc), then to develop some of my own
> scripts (korn/born shell) to monitor my Ingres installations.  To start off,
> I have installed xymon client on another laptop which is also running Fedora
> 11 (on bare metal rather than via a VM).  Although the xymon server is
> happily pinging the client and showing green on the current status, I do not
> seem to be able to get it to display any of the other data.
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> On checking the client, I am getting “Whoops ! bb failed to send message –
> timeout” every 5 minutes within hobbitclient.log.
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> On further checking, I have found that although I can telnet and ping from
> the server to the client, the client is unable to even ping the server (via
> IP address) – it just hangs.
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> Server to Client:
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> [xymon (at) beziers etc]$ ping 192.168.1.69
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> PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
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> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.74 ms
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> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.41 ms
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> 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.42 ms
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> Client to Server:
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> [xymon (at) lecroisic client]$ ping 192.168.174.129
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> PING 192.168.174.129 (192.168.174.129) 56(84) bytes of data.
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> Thinking it might be a firewall issue, I have temporarily disabled all
> firewall protection on both client and server, and even disabled the
> firewall on Windows XP (within which the VMawre Server is running the xymon
> server) – but with no success.
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> This unfortunately is where my networking knowledge fails me (and thus my
> plea for help!) and a Google search has not given me any clues (that I can
> understand).
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> Any thoughts?
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> Regards
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> Mark
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