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Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
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- Subject: Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
- From: Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:23:48 -0400
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Have you disabled alerting for that host or commented it out in your
bb-hosts? The way to disable a "check" for a host is to remove the check or
comment out the host in the bb-hosts. If you have just disabled the
"alerting", then it will continue to do the "check", just not alert you.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) stab.rm.dk>wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> One of our AD-servers went down for maintenance for 1 week, and I
> disabled
> >> the conn+dns tests in Xymon for that period. Now the "bbtest" column
> >> suddenly goes yellow, and indicates that DNS lookups takes 450+ seconds
> >> now (indicating that the DNS-check for the maintenanced server is still
> >> active).
> >
> > No, it indicates that the Xymon server is taking a long time to resolve
> host
> > names to IP addresses. You may need to configure the DNS client settings
> on the
> > Xymon server (e.g. adjust the 'server' parameters in /etc/resolv.conf).
> >
> > If you have most IP addresses hardcoded correctly in bb-hosts, you may
> want to
> > add the 'testip' flag to the relevant lines of bb-hosts.
>
> But why is the check still running against the AD-host I've disabled? It
> looks like its that exact dns-check that takes 450 seconds to run (timeout).
> Looking at the DNS-statistics:
>
> DNS tests executed 4602546.200466
> 450.096498
>
> which is the normal checks + the 450 second timeout. All other dns-checks
> run fine.
>
> Shouldnt I except something like this (from the conn checks):
>
> "System unreachable for 764 poll periods (363317 seconds)"
>
> instead of:
>
> "Service dns on xxx07 is OK
> Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test
> Host appears to be down
> Timeout
> Seconds: 450.003"
>
> when I've disabled all the checks on the host, and the server is powered
> down? Or am I missing something here?
>
> /melgaard
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