[Xymon] Bug in ping tests?

[cleaver at terabithia.org]

> I haven't seen this in the last year or more on this server.  I had
> sporadic issues on another service, but by simply moving hardware (from
> dedicated Atom to a ESXi platform) it was resolved.
>
> The page said it was red for 2-6 minutes.  I knew the test happens every
> 5,
> so I would have expected a retest to clear it (hosts were ping responsive
> from the shell).
>
> What log are you referring to?

hobbitnet (or bbnet, I forget the process name in 4.2.3)'s output log.
Also hobbitlaunch.log from around the time, just to see if something
abnormally quit.

-jc


> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:23 PM, <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > I have a front page with about a dozen hosts and then sub pages.
>> Every
>> > CONN test on the front page failed.  Each and every host on the
>> subpages
>> > (well over a dozen) was just fine.  After 6 minutes I restarted the
>> > hobbitd
>> > processes.  They all came right back.
>> >
>> > I am running 4.2.3.  Using fping to check
>> > - hobbitserver.cfg:FPING="/usr/sbin/fping"
>> >
>> > Has anyone seen this?
>>
>>
>> Hmm. It's possible that hobbitnet (?) died or was hung up... Or that the
>> pages weren't representative of the same run (eg, bbgen could have died
>> during its generation).
>>
>> Questions: Do you recall the page timestamps being the same? If you
>> clicked through to the tests when it was happening, did the (dynamic)
>> test
>> page match the (static) color in the grid? Has the problem started
>> recently, is it repeating, and was there anything interesting in the
>> logs
>> at the time?
>>
>> -jc
>>
>>
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