[Xymon] False procs alert

[Walter Rutherford]

Thank you John! That's far more possible causes than I thought of. C seems
the most
likely culprit since there is a second system with a similar name (a clone)
on the same
network. I also can't Remote Console that other system so it might be
misconfigured.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:38 AM John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
wrote:

> Since the 'conn' test is normally populated by a server-side instance of
> xymonnet, I can think of a few ways this could happen:
>
> A) DNS round-robin (multiple A-records), one of which isn't responding
>
> B) More than one instance of xymonnet running, one of which is on a
> network which is firewalled from the host
>
> C) An errant client sending a 'status' message with the 'conn' tag
>
> D) Multipathing on your network, one path of which isn't working
>
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> On 3/21/2019 10:25 AM, Walter Rutherford wrote:
> > So now it's mostly a curiosity. Has anyone else seen a system report
> > flapping like this?
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