September 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Netstat column graph, retrans
by sigurdur＠raforninn.is 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi. I am wondering about the netstat column's graph, specifically the retrans. The things I am wondering about are, what does this stand for (e.g. is it the retransmission timeout of packets or amount of packets retransmitted)? Also, what is a high value for this? The reason I ask of this is because I have not found any solid answers using either google or searching the mailing list. With regards, Sigurður Guðbrandsson

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Weird application freeze problem
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Posting for a friend.... I've been testing out Hobbit in a SLES 10 virtual machine on z/VM. It is a monitoring application based off of Big Brother. So far, it works great except for one weird thing. We have a cron task that runs once a night that does ntpdate to sync the time with an NTP server. If the time is in sync, no problem. However, if the time is out of sync and is adjusted, Hobbit freezes. The tasks still exist, but they just stop doing anything. Apache continues to display the same web page without an update. Stopping the Hobbit daemon doesn't help, in fact, it does nothing. The tasks never stop. I have to recycle the entire system in order to free it up. Has anyone seen a problem similar to this? Any ideas? -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2009 - Orlando, FL - May 15-19, 2009

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group-sorted in alternative pageset ?
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi ! Is there a group-sorted option for alternative pagesets ? desktoppage desktop Desktop Page desktopsubpage epics Epics desktopsubpage atlas Atlas group-sorted atlas atlas 131.169.184.62 atlas12 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas 131.169.184.52 atlas02 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas 131.169.184.51 atlas01 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas but the machines appear on the pageset not sorted, any hints ? thanks, Martin

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Hobbit/BBWin bug? hobbit_client dumping core.
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all I was mistaken. Even with the 3 hosts defined seperately, I still get the cores. I also get this in clientdata.log 2008-09-08 13:25:28 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating This is easily reproduced, and goes away if I comment out the 3 hosts. I will uncomment them one at a time, and let you know if it is confined to only one. Regards Vernon ________________________________ From: Everett, Vernon Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 10:43 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: Hobbit/BBWin bug? hobbit_client dumping core. Hi all Had a problem with Hobbit over the weekend, which may be a bug. The dev guys might want to have a look at it. We are monitoring a number of Windoze servers, all running BBWin - Latest edition. Server1 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Service Pack 1 (build 3790) Server2 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (build 2195) Server3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (build 2195) Hobbit server is running 4.2.0 with all-in-one patch applied on Red Hat Linux 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 We also have the required BBWin patch applied. In hobbit-client.cfg I had the servers configured as HOST=server1,server2,server3 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red Hobbit started core dumping, and many tests went purple. Under the hobbit server, a new column "hobbitd_client" appeared as red. Changed the entries to HOST=server1 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red HOST=server2 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red HOST=server3 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red Ran ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop hobbit hobbitd_client" And all was well. I have saved a few of the cores if anybody is interested in investigating this one. Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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http timeout (yellow)
by jon＠shadowsoft.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Is there a way to make the http test go yellow at a certain number of seconds? It just seems to be binary... < 10 sec = green, > 10 sec = red Thanks, Jon

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Annoying
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I used to download snapshots almost every day and test them. But when they were moved I stopped, since I was uncertain how to do. Today I tried for the first time. Besides the earlier sent mail, I have the following. 1. Why have a test that produce errors on the screen and ends up with: clock_gettime() not present, but this should be OK I have librt: # find /usr -name librt* /usr/lib/pa20_64/librt.2 /usr/lib/pa20_64/librt.sl /usr/lib/librt.2 /usr/lib/librt.sl 2. Why are needed executable files not executable (eg) ./configure.server[167]: ./build/lfs.sh: Execute permission denied. Checking for clock_gettime() requiring librt ... test-clockgettime-librt.c: In function `main': test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: `CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in t his function) test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [test-clockgettime-librt.o] Error 1 test-clockgettime-librt.c: In function `main': test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: `CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in t his function) test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [test-clockgettime-librt.o] Error 1 clock_gettime() not present, but this should be OK -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Hobbit 4.2 - bb2 ack list has strange date
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Trying to get a Hobbit 4.2.0+allinone server on CentOS 4.6 x86_64 running. I am sometimes, when acknowledging an alert getting a very wrong date string showing in the ack log at the bottom of the bb2 page. For instance: Fri May 24 00:07:50 9630 den1log43 disk uiadmin (10.1.10.112) asparks: blown datafile Where in the world can "year 9630" be coming from? The acknowledge.log has the following line: 1220503494 525808 60 525808 np_filename_not_used den1log43.disk yellow asparks: blown datafile, needs rebuild \nAcked by: uiadmin (10.1.10.112) Is this corrupt data somewhere? I've also tried removing the content of acknowledge.log, but the problem returns as soon as I ack a new alert. Thanks for any advice. -Alan

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Ping only when another machine is not pingable
by eric.jacobs＠thomastechsolutions.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario. Eric Jacobs

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linecount
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Had this working yesterday, did not know it was until I look in the trends column but by then I broke it! I cannot seam to get it right today! File is /etc/backup/passwd (back up of passwd) ALL I want to do is get a linecount of ALL line. What goes in client-local.cfg What goes (if anything) in hobbit-clients.cfg

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cont check regex problems
by kmckinnis＠tivo.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I'm not clear what I'm doing wrong in my cont check in bb-hosts, and I was hoping someone could help me out. My regular expression works fine in perl: perl -e '$text = join "", <>; if ($text =~ /assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"/) { print "OK\n"; } else { print "NotOK\n"; }' < /tmp/vodbrowser.php However, bb-hosts line fails on the regex check: 10.100.104.53 seachange-vod # testip cont=vod;http://mrteeny/vod/vodbrowser.php;assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}" It *is* a webpage I'm trying to match... so the page starts with: <html> <head> <title>VOD Interface</title> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <h3 align=center>Vod Interface</h3> <pre> ----------------------------------- assetID="00080002" However, I really only care if the assetID is being displayed. Any suggestions?

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