[Xymon] Odd Error re: multiple simultaneous updates

[Henrik Størner]

On 06-12-2011 23:23, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

>> You are not doing anything wrong, actually. Solaris just happens to
>> report ifstat data using the "mac" interface name multiple times. See
>> http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/06/msg00204.html
>>
>> This change was implemented in the 4.3.x version of the Solaris client.
>
> I will be switching to that shortly. In the meantime, what is the
> recommended fix -- in the link above, is #1 or #2 preferable (or does it
> not matter)?

The second one is what went into the 4.3.x Solaris client, so on the 
client you can edit the ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh script 
so it has

echo "[ifstat]"
/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64' | egrep -v 'wrsmd|mac' | sort

It doesn't require that you upgrade the server-side of Xymon.


Regards,
Henrik