February 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

entropy going yellow
by dhaycurrie＠leisurefitness.com 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

The entropy check on my xymon server keeps going yellow saying that the kernel entropy pool is low. However I am not completely sure what it is (I did look for info online) or how to fix the check so it does not go yellow (increase the entropy? Clear it ?) If anyone can give me a hand I would appreciate it.

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bbtest-net crashing
by emarganne＠be.tiauto.com 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello, A few days ago we experimented a total loss of service from Hobbit. The bbtest-net process keeps on crashing; we tried first to isolate the line from the bb-host file but it did not work, instability went back after a short period of stability. We have two Hobbit servers instance being clones and they failed the same way. Trying some debugging we searched the mailing for similar problems to see if someone had a solution but the -no-ares swith solution found did not make it. The issue seams to come from a C library but I am not very sure. Following the result from gdb on the core created by the bbtest-net: GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libldap.so.199...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libldap.so.199 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/liblber.so.199...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/liblber.so.199 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Core was generated by `bbtest-net --debug --test-untagged --dns-timeout=10 --timeout=10 --concurrency='. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x401a75c1 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x401a8ea5 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #3 0x0805b933 in xstrdup (s=0x0) at memory.c:175 #4 0x080514d7 in setup_ssl (item=0x8379aa8) at contest.c:626 #5 0x08052816 in do_tcp_tests (timeout=10, concurrency=40) at contest.c:998 #6 0x08050005 in main (argc=6, argv=0xbfffc454) at bbtest-net.c:2133 If you need any other information, let me know. Thank you for any help, Etienne Marganne.

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"unknown DS name" question.
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

I have an xymon script that was producing the following web information. From this information I was plotting "Delta Pages Printed". Data and graph was working great until..... Here is the old web data. Printer Counter = 1869893 Total Pages Printed Since 2010/02/17/18/18/32 = 2810 Delta Pages Printed = 0 I needed to enter another line in the web data and now it looks like: Printer Counter = 1869893 Printer Cartridge Counter = 10803 Total Pages Printed Since 2010/02/17/18/18/32 = 2810 Delta Pages Printed = 0 I added the "Printer Cartridge Counter =" but I still only wanting to graph the "Delta Pages Printed". Rrd-status.log is now giving the following messages: 2010-02-22 15:48:25 RRD error updating /local/xymon/data/rrd/lp.math.purdue.edu/Prn.rrd from 128.210.33.225: unknown DS name 'PrinterCartridgeCou' And if I go to the data/rrd/lp.math.purdue.edu and run "rrdtool dump Prn.rrd" it in fact does not have a ds 'PrinterCartridgeCou' My question is how do I update the current Prn.rrd? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Route/Netstat Crashing and/or Ipconfig Not Working = Purple results
by fjb047＠motorola.com 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Folks, we have three dell power edge 2950s that are running a Win2k3 OS as well as the Citrix Xenapp (version 5.0). What we see is that Hobbit will report the basic test purple (CPU, Disk, Mem, ect) after some time has pasted. When we logon to the systems we usually see a crash message saying that either route.exe or netstat has crashed. Checking the task manger on these boxes shows we can have a mix of netstat and route.exe still running (some times its just one, other there are 2 or more instances, or just one of them running, ect). Looking at the event viewer we will usually see: The agent stats generated this event message : failed to execute ipconfig /all But no other error indications on those boxes. And of course when we run this ipconfig command it works all the time for us. The simple fix is to kill any an all netstat.exe, route.exe and cmd windows they tried to run and then the servers go back to green. Problem is they will only last for some time until they go purple. And the time it takes is random. Finally we have 6 other Citrix servers all configured in the same manor that do NOT exhibit this behavior. So any ideas on how to find out why netstat/route keep crashing? Thanks! Jb

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HP Array Monitoring
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi People. We have had some drives in our raid array fail over the last two weeks. The problem is that we weren't monitoring the array via Xymon and only picked it up when we were physically at the server. I just wanted to check if there is a way to monitor HP raid array via Xymon. These are windows boxes running big brother client. Regards Neil

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run bb-hostsvc.sh from command line
by pkc_mls＠yahoo.fr 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi all, As far as I can remember, there is a way to run the script bb-hostsvc.sh directly from command line after setting a specific var in the shell. Could anyone please remind me of the var to set ? thanks.

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Xymon Export Compliance Question
by Jason.F.Rockwell＠conocophillips.com 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

All, Doe anyone know where I can find a Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) for Xymon? Thanks, Jason Rockwell ConocoPhillips Technical Unix Services Mail: Jason.F.Rockwell at conocophillips.com<mailto:Jason.F.Rockwell at conocophillips.com> Office: (281)293-3969

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dual identity client
by doctor＠makelofine.org 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi, I'm running xymon client 4.3.0-beta2 on a host called TOTO, i also installed xymon server 4.3.0-beta2on TOTO. All my xymon clients report their statuses to TOTO and TATA (a host running xymon client 4.2.2/ and xymon server 4.3.0-beta2). Since I installed xymon server 4.3.0-beta2 on TOTO , TOTO's xymon client reports itselfs alternatively as "TOTO" and "TATA" . I searched very hardly what should be the reason. I can't find any "TATA" in the TOTO's xymon client directory. Any idead ?

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dropped hosts comes back
by pkc_mls＠yahoo.fr 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi all, I have an issue with a hobbit/xymon installation on a debian stable machine. (installation was done with the debian package, so the version is 4.3.0.0 beta2). Even if I drop a complete host with the bb drop command, and this host is not in the bb-hosts file, the tests are still performed. I also removed the files in the data directory for this host, but it comes back. The bb hobbitboard shows the hosts. How can I get rid of my old hosts/tests ? thanks.

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ifstat.mac.rrd question
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

I am getting this error message in my rrd-data.log about every minute. I looked in the archive about this and only found one entry that did not provide much help. Also in the trends in the network traffic graph I see an interface named "mac". 2010-02-15 08:41:35 RRD error updating /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from 128.210.3.205: /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1266241295 when last update time is 1266241295 (minimum one second step) QUESTION: 1) what is the "mac" interface? 2) what is causing the above error and how can I prevent this? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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