TS - red for Printer?

I watch multiple printers and all are on the same subnet .

I added a 128.170.70.88 called Printer088.

From the command line and my PC I can ping the device:

            [root at monitor1 ~]# ping 128.170.70.88

PING 128.170.70.88 (128.170.70.88) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=1.67 ms

64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=1.71 ms

64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=1.46 ms

--- 128.170.70.88 ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.467/1.617/1.713/0.112 ms

[root at monitor1 ~]#

I added the device yesterday afternoon to Xymon (running CentOS with 4.3.0-0.beta2).

bb-hosts entry:

            group-compress <h4>Building R</h4>

128.170.70.227 Printer227 # conn

128.170.70.228 Printer228 # conn

128.170.70.88 Printer088 # conn

The ICON is RED for the device:

Tue Mar 2 07:46:07 2010 conn NOT ok

Service conn on Printer088 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping

System unreachable for 201 poll periods (60424 seconds)

128.170.35.103 is unreachable

Status unchanged in 16 hours, 47 minutes Status message received from 128.170.1.151

<http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com/xymon-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=Printer088 &service=tcp:conn&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&disp=Printer088&nosta le&color=red&graph_start=1267368435&graph_end=1267541235&action=menu>

The IP address that it says in "unreachable" does not have anything device associated with it either in the bb-hosts or DNS.

Why would this address be part of the test and not the actual IP address????

I have not special characters in the line other than a TAB between the IP and the device name just like all the other ones?

Firewall rules should not play a part as all are on the same subnet and I am able to ping the device from the command line.

BTW: I have three systems doing monitoring of this device and all are the same Xymon release on CentOS 5.3 or 5.4.

        All of them show the exact same type of report.

Could there be some corruption somewhere? What can I do to troubleshoot Xymon?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff - R&D

L-3 Communication Systems West

640 North 2200 West

P.O. Box 16850

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

Cell (801) 231-7230

eFax (413) 480-6873

D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com

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