[Xymon] conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)

I can see now that the frequency is one hour. Thats the first pattern. I cannot find a pattern among the loads of hosts I have in bb-hosts

Anyone?

Henrik?

Thank you very much

Peto

Hello

And thank you all very much in advance for taking the time to read it :) I have XYMON 4.2.3 on Fedora 10 - its a vmware virtual machine. XYMON is in /usr/lib/xymonuser/server

I get these kind of emails "Hobbit [232357] HOSTNAME:conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)" For a 2nd day now. I cannot determine a pattern and frequency yet, nor time-wise nor hostname-wise

What happened? - I ran out of space. And then it turns out I ran out of inodes. What I did: 1. cd /var/log/ tar -zcvf xymon_logs_2011-april.tar.gz xymon cd xymon I deleted *.log files

2. I deleted the largest messages log file from Fedora, it was 2.1 GB.

3. inodes, full, df -i In my case: The directory /usr/lib/xymonuser/data/histlogs/ keeps huge amount of historical data about each hobbit client. I made tar.gz of everything in histlogs. I then did rm -rf for everything inside histlogs. Now 66% of inodes are free and I have ~6GB free disk space.

All works fine except that I get "conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)".

4. To resolve "conn stopped reporting (PURPLE)" a. Stopped xymon b. Backup of "/usr/lib/xymonuser/server/tmp/" c. Delete all in "/usr/lib/xymonuser/server/tmp/" d. Restart fedora 10 f. Start xymon. Works all ok. d. I still get the emails :(

I searched Internet and didnt anything else, apart from this: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-February/017868.html - there are few posts like these, I am not sure how this is relevant to my case.

sendmail queue is empty. Maybe all these messages are being generated because for a while it was not working, between steps 2 and 3 - I didnt figure out immediately that I am out of inodes. So xymon was mostly purple for many hosts and services.

Thank you very much again

Henrik - Thanks for this tool

Take care all

Thanks! Peto