Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery

[Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com>]

Yes, that is only for disabling alerting to create a maintenance window. It
doesn't stop the checks from occurring. Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) stab.rm.dk>wrote:

>  Hi,
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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.
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> I've used the Enable/Disable-options in he Administration-part of Xymon, to
> disable the tests (the hobbit-enadis.sh-script) - is that just
> alert-disabling?
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> /melgaard
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>  On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) stab.rm.dk>wrote:
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>> >> 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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