[Xymon] Bug in ping tests?

[Josh Luthman]

Did a grep 2012-07-18 on the logs and excluding rrd-* this is all I have.


These lines are because a DNS server I monitor is down.  I disabled it when
I discovered the campus lost power.

bb-network.log:
2012-06-17 21:16:24 WARNING: Runtime 581 longer than time limit (300)

This would be the right time:

 clientdata.log
2012-07-18 14:19:39 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument

history.log
2012-07-18 14:19:39 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument
2012-07-18 14:27:36 Will not update
/home/hobbituser/data/hist/foohostname,imaginenetworksllc,com.bbd - color
unchanged (green)
#last line repeated for every host that experience this problem

hobbitd.log
2012-07-18 14:19:49 Setup complete

page.log
2012-07-18 14:19:39 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument


Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:44 PM, <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:

>
>
> > 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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