[Xymon] False Alarm

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Even better than that, check the history and check both the good and bad
status messages, and make sure at the bottom that they are coming from
the same IP address.

On 03/28/2012 01:17 PM, Larry Barber wrote:
> Is it possible you have two different hosts reporting under the same
> name? If your reports are coming in more frequently than every five
> minutes (check alert history) then you likely have two different
> machines reporting the same name.
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Gautier Begin <gbegin at csc.com
> <mailto:gbegin at csc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jeremy,
> 
>     Yes, all files in the tmp directory match the hostname of the
>     machine. It seems as the mismatch is coming from the hobbitd on the
>     server.
>     The false alarm is coming up just one time then wanishes.
> 
>     Cordialement, Regards,Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> 
>     Gautier BEGIN
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>     From:        Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
>     <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>>
>     To:        Gautier Begin/LUX/CSC at CSC
>     Cc:        xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>     Date:        03/28/2012 04:49 AM
>     Subject:        Re: [Xymon] False Alarm
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> 
>     On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Gautier Begin <gbegin at csc.com
>     <mailto:gbegin at csc.com>> wrote:
>     > Since last Thuesday, we encourter false alarms on procs and disk
>     tests. It
>     > seems as real alarms are attributed to a wrong hostname because in the
>     > attached data, we see that the xymon agent process is configured
>     for an
>     > other hostname.
> 
>     On the client, do you have a file in /tmp (or $XYMONTMP) called
>     "msg.<name-of-host>.txt"?  Does the filename match the hostname?  Does
>     the contents show the correct hostname?
> 
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