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

[Galen Johnson]

Just curious but is fping setuid root?  You're running the command as root
but xymon should be running as the xymon user.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Peng, Kingston <kpeng at partycity.com> wrote:

> 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):
> --------------------------------------------------
> Mon Feb 24 21:18:57 2014 conn ok : System failure of the ping test
>
> Service conn on BOOMITEST01 is OK
> Xymon system error
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> However, if I manually run ping or fping, both results are good (also,
> same result for all my servers monitored):
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> [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
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> -----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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