Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery

[TJ Yang <tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com> wrote:
> LOL!  Funny, but kinda rude.
>
Josh didn't mean to be rude.

There was a book called "Hobbit RTFM" created using LaTeX by me. it is
a book composed of Henrik's documentation(html,troff material etc)
with Table of Contents and index.
I showed him a while back.
This is quite labor intensive even I only try to put the existing docs together.

The book should be renamed to "Collection of Xymon Docs". so nobody
will got offended.


tj

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:50 PM
> To: xymon (at) xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
>
> 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.
>
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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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