[Xymon] Issues after upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5

[Ryan Skadberg]

Just to complete the loop here, the 4.3.6 upgrade fixed all the issues I
was seeing.  Guess whatever was fixed with the host loading fixed my issues.

Skadz


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de>wrote:

>
> Hi, Ryan !
>
> I've got till one hour before the same issues and was completley unlucky
> like you :-(
>
> Unfortunatley i didn't know how i  solve it but now it runs like a charme
> ...
>
> But i think it was something with xymonlaunch and the start-script ...
>
> Please debug the scripts
>
>  /etc/init.d/xymon and /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/**xymon.sh
>
> with set -x and watch the logfiles
>
> maybe & hopefully it helps ..
>
> cheers,
>        martin
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Ryan Skadberg wrote:
>
>  Any help here?  I've tried a number of different things to attempt to
>> solve these on my own, but nothing has worked.  Any help would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks!
>> Skadz
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ryan Skadberg <skadz at skadz.com> wrote:
>>      Hi All -
>>   I've been running hobbit/xymon for a long time, but I've finally just
>> joined the list due to a number of issues after I
>> upgraded from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5.  I walked through and fixed all the file
>> names and everything SEEMS ok, but am seeing a number
>> of strange things:
>>
>> a) When I start up xymon, I don't get my previous state back.  The xymond
>> options have:
>>
>> --restart=/usr/lib/xymon/**server/tmp/xymond.chk
>> --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/**xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
>>
>> And the files has data:
>>
>> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk
>>
>> But when I restart the server or service, I seem to lose all data and
>> anything that has been disabled or acked is now once
>> again back to it's starting state.
>>
>> b) I can't seem to add new machines.  I add a machine to hosts.cfg and
>> analysis.cfg and it shows up on the web page, but it
>> never seems to actually receive any data.  I've tried reloading the
>> service, but that doesn't seem to help.  I even tried
>> something like:
>>
>> xymon localhost 'enable machine.company.com'
>>
>> But it did not help.  I see on the Ghost client page that it seems to
>> recognize the correlation as it has a candidate, but
>> isn't doing anything.  Do I need to do something different with this
>> newer version to enable a machine instead of just adding
>> it to the two files?
>>
>> c) Last issue is very similar to the previous issue.  I removed a machine
>> from the hosts.cfg file, then ran:
>>
>> xymon localhost 'drop machine.company.com'
>>
>> But when it didn't check in for an hour, it still seemingly went purple
>> and sent out emails/pages.  I did a reload on the
>> service and this now seems to have stopped, but I don't think it should
>> have happened in the first place.
>>
>> d) I get startup errors that don't seem to make a ton of sense:
>>
>> In xymonlaunch.log, I see:
>>
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 xymonlaunch starting
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading tasklist configuration from
>> /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/**tasks.cfg
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot open directory
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading hostnames
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot load host data
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading saved state
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot access checkpoint file
>> /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk for restore
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up signal handlers
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up xymond channels
>> 2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up logfiles
>>
>>
>> As I said, I am seeing all of the hosts that I have in the system and
>> have double checked the permissions and the xymon user
>> can most definitely access all of the files, so why am I getting these
>> errors?
>>
>> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ whoami
>> xymon
>> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ wc -l /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk
>> 8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk
>> [xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ ls -als /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk
>> 31756 -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 32474378 Oct 26 17:54
>> /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/**xymond.chk
>>
>> I am also seeing:
>>
>> 2011-10-26 17:54:50 Cannot load host data
>>
>> in my xymond.log every 10 minutes.  As I said, any files seem to be
>> accessible as far as I can tell, but maybe since the error
>> message is not very verbose, I am not looking in the right place.
>>
>> I know these probably all seem like newbie questions, but I have done all
>> the debugging I seem to be able to do and can't
>> figure anything out on these.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Skadz
>>
>>
>>
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