TS - bb-hosts problem

[Johan Sjöberg]

Isn't the hostname the "primary key"? Can you use the same hostname with multiple IP addresses?

/Johan

From: d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com [mailto:d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com]
Sent: den 30 augusti 2010 15:54
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] TS - bb-hosts problem
Importance: High

I am getting a yellow alert on my Xymon server under 'BBTEST':

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Mon Aug 30 07:43:57 2010

bbtest-net version 4.3.0-0.beta2
SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20343

Statistics:
 Hosts total           :      951
 Hosts with no tests   :        0
 Total test count      :     1008
 Status messages       :     1012
 Alert status msgs     :        0
 Transmissions         :       14

DNS statistics:
 # hostnames resolved  :      975
 # succesful           :      573
 # failed              :      382
 # calls to dnsresolve :     1002

TCP test statistics:
 # TCP tests total     :       40
 # HTTP tests          :       30
 # Simple TCP tests    :       10
 # Connection attempts :       40
 # bytes written       :     4682
 # bytes read          :   109923


Error output:
Host cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results


TIME SPENT
Event                                            Starttime          Duration
bbtest-net startup                             8802.037154                 -
Service definitions loaded                     8802.038670          0.001516
Tests loaded                                   8802.134488          0.095818
DNS lookups completed                          8807.226739          5.092251
Test engine setup completed                    8807.245081          0.018342
TCP tests completed                            8810.416313          3.171232
PING test completed (951 hosts)                8859.946266         49.529953
PING test results sent                         8859.949945          0.003679
Test result collection completed               8859.950004          0.000059
LDAP test engine setup completed               8859.950006          0.000002
LDAP tests executed                            8859.950008          0.000002
LDAP tests result collection completed         8859.950010          0.000002
DNS tests executed                             8860.077831          0.127821
NTP tests executed                             8861.305830          1.227999
Test results transmitted                       8861.339357          0.033527
bbtest-net completed                           8861.340730          0.001373
TIME TOTAL                                                         59.303576


Here is a 'grep' of bb-hosts:
                [root at monitorp etc]# grep -i cswflex4 bb-hosts
0.0.0.0         cswflex4.csw.L-3com.com
128.170.31.14   cswflex4.csw.L-3com.com         # conn
0.0.0.0 cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com
0.0.0.0 cswflex4.csw.l-3com.com
[root at monitorp etc]#


I cannot find a second entry with an IP address.
I have hundreds of other servers with 0.0.0.0 entries so I cannot figure out what is happening?

Running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.5 on Dell R-610.
I tried to do a 'drop hostname', could there be a duplicate in the Xymon data base?
If so, how do you remove the bad one so you don't loose the history being gathered by the client on the Windows server.
The client is the big brother client.

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
L-3 Communication Systems West
640 North 2200 West
P.O. Box 16850
Salt Lake City, UT  84116
Phone (801) 594-3030
Cell      (801) 231-7230
eFax    (413) 480-6873
D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com<mailto:D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com>
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