[hobbit] Strange pinging issue

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Fri Nov 30 22:47:51 CET 2007


I get a very similar situation, of which I was just about to report!  Mine
will be green for hours or days, then show up red for much less time (5-45
seconds).  I've mine set as default..

FPING="/usr/sbin/fping"

I have testip on almost every single host.

On 11/30/07, Maschino, Shawn (SABIC Innovative Plastics) <
shawn.maschino at sabic-ip.com> wrote:
>
>      Hi all, we are seeing a strange fping issue with Hobbit and I was
> wondering if anyone may have seen the same.
>
>     We have changed the IP addresses on a large number of systems we are
> monitoring due to moving them to a new location.  We updated the bb-hosts
> file to have the new IPs, and DNS was also updated.  However Hobbit
> occasionally falls back to testing the old IP for no apparent reason.
>
>     This happens quite regularly as well, as seen here:
>
>   Fri Nov 30 10:56:08 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:56:08_2007>
> 0:04:19 Fri Nov 30 10:48:31 2007 [image: green]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:48:31_2007>
> 0:07:37 Fri Nov 30 10:48:08 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:48:08_2007>
> 0:00:23 Fri Nov 30 10:42:27 2007 [image: green]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:42:27_2007>
> 0:05:41 Fri Nov 30 10:39:53 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:39:53_2007>
> 0:02:34 Fri Nov 30 10:36:49 2007 [image: green]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:36:49_2007>
> 0:03:04 Fri Nov 30 10:31:57 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:31:57_2007>
> 0:04:52 Fri Nov 30 10:25:27 2007 [image: green]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:25:27_2007>
> 0:06:30 Fri Nov 30 10:23:58 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:23:58_2007>
> 0:01:29 Fri Nov 30 10:19:19 2007 [image: green]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:19:19_2007>
> 0:04:39 Fri Nov 30 10:16:26 2007 [image: red]<http://lacin002v.gep.ge.com/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=SACIN053V&SERVICE=conn&TIMEBUF=Fri_Nov_30_10:16:26_2007>
> 0:02:53
>
>     The conn status page when green shows the correct IP address, and when
> red shows the wrong (old) IP address.  Nothing in the bb-hosts or DNS change
> during this time.
>
>     I ran a "fping -AeC 1000 -i 5000 <host>" from the command line to see
> if fping was switching IPs, and it does not seem to be, even when Hobbit
> shows red, the fping from the command line still his the new/current IP.
>
>     I've tried forcing a "testip" in bb-hosts to see if DNS was involved,
> and with that forced it still changes in Hobbit.
>
>     Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
>     Thanks,
>
> Shawn
>



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