[Xymon] fping error code 4

[Vernon Everett]

Hi all

"TIME SPENT" is showing the odd spike now and then, but the highest I have
seen is 9.8 seconds.
And these peaks do not coincide with the fping issues.

I did a little more research, and discovered 2 instances of fping.
#  /opt/csw/sbin/fping -v
/opt/csw/sbin/fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
/opt/csw/sbin/fping: comments to david at remote.net

# /usr/local/sbin/fping -v
/usr/local/sbin/fping: Version 3.0
/usr/local/sbin/fping: comments to david at schweikert.ch

/opt/csw/sbin/fping is the one I installed recently using OpenCSW's
pkgutil, but the Xymon config was pointing to /usr/local/sbin/fping
I have switched the FPING= definition in ~/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg to
point to the OpenCSW version.
Let's see if this improves matters.

Regards
Vernon




On 11 January 2013 08:16, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:

> I think the key here is the "select".  To me, this suggests that the
> select() system call (which is used to read data on STDIN from xymonnet) is
> trying to get data from a closed socket, or a similar problem.  I wonder if
> fping, which is run from xymonnet, is sometimes taking so long to run, and
> eventually xymonlaunch is killing xymonnet.
>
> By default, xymonlaunch (in tasks.cfg) kills xymonnet after 5 minutes, but
> xymonnetagain is killed off after only 1 minute.  So if you have a lot of
> hosts that are uncontactable, or have long ping times, then this might add
> up to a minute.
>
> To confirm this, check out the "xymonnet" dot on your Xymon server, and
> look at the "TIME SPENT" table for ping test duration.
>
> J
>
>
>
> On 10 January 2013 17:12, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Anybody seen something like this?
>>
>> Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 4
>>
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/fping: select : Invalid argument
>>
>> Error I see when xymonnet page goes red.
>> At the same time, all conn tests go white.
>> Happens briefly every few hours. No obvious pattern, but at least once a
>> day, sometimes twice.
>>
>> This is a new installation of Xymon 4.3.10, on a relatively old Solaris
>> 10 Sparc server.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vernon
>>
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