I am running 4.2.0 with the allinone patch. I do have a suspicion that external server side scripts could contribute to the stale alerts. In my case, specifically a script that ssh's to a remote host and executes a shell script on the remote host. It may also happen in conjunction with these errors in the logs, which someone else recently reported:
page.log.1:2007-11-05 16:20:53 hobbitd_alert: Got message 14425, expected 14424
As soon as the issue with tooltips is resolved, I will be moving our primary hobbit to the snapshot release.
~David
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 17:18
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] stale alerts
This has never happened to me - are the two of you using the4.2.0 release?
Josh
On 11/14/07, Gore, David W (David) <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com <mailto:david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> > wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Baluha [mailto: gumby3203 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 16:30
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] stale alerts
>
> Order of events:
> 1am: alert went yellow, email was sent out
> 1:15am: alert recovered
> 2am, and each additional hour: email was sent outsaying > alert was yellow (it was actually showing green) > 10:30a: I restart Hobbit and get the "stale alert" message, > and it finally stops sending alerts. Recovery email was > never sent out, even though it is in the alert rules. > > On Nov 14, 2007 11:22 AM, Josh Luthman > <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > > You're saying it went yellow, then green. The log tells > you it sent > > an alert when it was yellow. > > > > I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem here =/ It sent an alert first > > when it was yellow and another when it switch to green to > inform you > > it recovered, correct? > > > > > > > > On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, the alert history shows it went yellow and then 5 > minutes later > > > recovered. The web page is showing everything correct. However, > > > when I check the notifications.log file, I can see that > it was still > > > sending alerts about it being yellow, even though it was > definitely > > > green. > > > > > > On Nov 14, 2007 10:38 AM, Josh Luthman > <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> > > wrote: > > > > Click on it the host's test and click on history
was > red at all? > > > > > > > > Are the WWW pages updating? Look in the top right > corner of the > > > > page > > once > > > > you click on the host's test link. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha < gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I noticed this morning that our Hobbit server was sending out > > > > > alerts for the process check for a machine that was actually > > > > > shown as green on the hobbit web page. I checked on the > > > > > monitored machine, and the alert was indeed green, yet the > > > > > server was still sending out emails as though it were in a > > > > > yellow state. I restarted the Hobbit client on the monitored > > > > > machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the server. > > > > > After doing this, I noticed the following in the page.log > > > > > file: > > > > > > > > > > 2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for host-name:procs dropped > > > > > > > > > > (I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the > > innocent) > > > > > What exactly does this mean? Before I restarted the Hobbit > > > > > server process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and > > > > > removed the erroneous alert, but that didn't correct the > > > > > problem. It was only after I restarted the Hobbit > server process that it cleared the alert. > > > > > Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is there something else > > > > > going on here? >
Gary, We get those too, along with leftover semaphores andshared memory segments when we stop the hobbit server. The snapshot, seems much better, but with tooltips and host descriptions pushing our display to the far right of the screen we cannot use it right now.
~David Ps. Just to let you know it's not just your setup. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk-- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
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