[hobbit] Conn red and green every few minutes

[Gary B.]

Intermittent network flappage (ACLs)?  Maybe a tcpdump would have provided
more insight, than just rebooting the servers...

On 3/16/06, Bill Perez <billieperez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been running Hobbit 4.2.1 on Fedora Core 4 for several months
> now.   Today, in the middle of a normal day when there was supposedly
> nothing going on that would have caused this, about 30 servers started
> reporting red connectivity, then a few minutes later would switch back to
> green, then back to red again - causing very many alerts to go out.  There
> doesn't seem to be anything similar about the servers that this was
> happening to, it was just random.  I was able to ping these servers from the
> hobbit server, so it didn't seem like there was really a connectivity issue
> for hobbit getting to them.  I restarted the hobbit service, rebooted the
> server, checked the logs (nothing was logged the time it started
> happening).  I then moved all the logs to a different directory and
> restarted the service.  After about 1/2 hr things went back to normal.  Does
> anyone know what might cause this strange behavior and anything to do to
> prevent it from happening in the future.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Billie
>
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