Thanks for the response Henrik,

The weird thing is that the files were created, and contained a mix of:

IP is alive (0.## ms) IP is unreachable

So it was able to ping some things, but not others.

Looking at the space utilization for that server, which only runs hobbit on the root file system, it hasn't gone over 8% utilization (8.7GB out of 115GB), it's currently up from 7% in the last month :), so unlikely that it was a space issue.

The morning it paged us at 4:15, that was the first thing I looked at, was did it create the file indicated in the hobbit log. I also cheked the df, and to see if there had been a router problem with the router that the server itself is plugged into. Our network engineers were unable to find any issues with that router. After the second "non-event", we decided to reboot to clear out what appeared to be defunct hobbit processes after 92 days of uptime. Not sure if these were related or not. Only time will tell. Another weird thing is that immediately after getting the pages and e-mails about the connection failures, we were getting pages and e-mails that everything had recovered, almost as if there was only a few seconds delay. In the time we've been running hobbit (and bb before), this is the first time something like this has happened.

Al

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:28 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] fping failing error code 98

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Cortes, Manny wrote:

On two occasions within a week hobbit alerted that several servers lost connectivity and then apparently recovered. Here is a sample of the error in the bb-network.log:

2006-06-11 04:16:07 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98

2006-06-11 04:16:07 Cannot open fping output file /hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.2246

The error code basically means what it says: Hobbit couldn't create the output file it needs for fping output. In the newer versions it also prints out the system error-message which would have been helpful here, but you should look for a cause that prevents files from being created in this directory.

Most likely cause is that the /hobbit/server/tmp/ filesystem is full.

Regards, Henrik

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