[Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

[Peng, Kingston]

Here is the info you asked (only one line): 
 [root at island-vm hist]# more /home/xymon/data/hist/BOOMIAPP01.conn
Mon Feb 24 16:12:55 2014 clear 1393276375

As I click the white icon named "conn" for server BOOMIAPP01, I see the
following message (same error for all my servers monitored): 
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Mon Feb 24 21:18:57 2014 conn ok : System failure of the ping test

Service conn on BOOMITEST01 is OK
Xymon system error
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However, if I manually run ping or fping, both results are good (also,
same result for all my servers monitored): 

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[root at island-vm hist]# ping BOOMIAPP01
PING boomiapp01 (172.33.1.39) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from boomiapp01 (172.33.1.39): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from boomiapp01 (172.33.1.39): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=0.906 ms
^C
--- boomiapp01 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1611ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.000/0.453/0.906/0.453 ms
[root at island-vm hist]# fping BOOMIAPP01
BOOMIAPP01 is alive
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

On 2/24/2014 4:25 PM, Peng, Kingston wrote:
> I didn't put anything on /etc/hosts.cfg.  When I said hosts.cfg, it is
> /home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg.

Sorry for the confusion. My fingers auto-corrected as they typed. I 
don't understand why you are making any changes to /etc/hosts
... especially after seeing your hosts.cfg  If you have embedded short 
hostnames and ip addresses in hosts.cfg, there is no need to dual-enter 
the same information in /etc/hosts

Does your xymon behave any better if your hosts.cfg looks like:
> # We are not going to use FQDNs or DNS. Use testip instead.
> 0.0.0.0		.default.	# testip
> 127.0.0.1	localhost	# bbd	http://localhost/
> 10.1.2.159	island-vm	# bbd	http://localhost/
>
> # group-compress is a hold-over from BB. 'group' does the same thing.
> group	Boomi
> 172.33.1.39	BOOMIAPP01	# ssh ntp
http://172.33.1.39:28080/connect/Interchange.html
> 172.33.1.38	BOOMITEST01	# ssh ntp
> 172.33.1.81	RAMPDEV		# ssh ntp


Is there anything in ~/data/hist/BOOMIAPP01.conn ?

If you insert --debug on the xymonnet line in tasks.cfg, does anything 
interesting appear in the log file (named in that section)?


-- 
    Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska
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