Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

To my knowledge the best thing that relates to this is T.J.'s RTFM
guide.  I browsed through it when the IRC channel was first
created...long ago.

You can always ask logical questions after searching the docs in IRC.

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) stab.rm.dk> wrote:
> Hi,
>> Yes, that is only for disabling alerting to create a maintenance window.
>> It doesn't stop the checks from occurring. Thanks.
> Great, I feel like a beginner now. Is there any day-to-day operations-manual
> in the Xymon-documentation/wiki somewhere? I think I've missed the basic
> Xymon operation-guidelines somehow.
>
>
>
> /melgaard
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard (at) stab.rm.dk>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> /melgaard
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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