On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Scheblein, Adam wrote:

Greetings,

Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my hobbitd section about my proc column for one of my hosts:

Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399, limit 524288) First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports truncated (n=514197, limit=262144)

Yes - this is due to the client sending status messages that are too large for the server to accept. The default limit for status messages is 256K and clients is 512K; both are not large enough.

You can control this setting by adding values for

MAXMSG_CLIENT MAXMSG_STATUS

into the hobbitserver.cfg config file. In my config I have

MAXMSG_CLIENT="2097152" MAXMSG_STATUS="2097152"

This may be too large for you though so you should perhaps try smaller values first

Cheers

Iain

Any thoughts??

Thanks,

Adam

Iain Conochie UNIX Systems Administrator

I think that this means that your Hobbit client sent more data than the Hobbit server was configured to accept. You need to look at the data sent by this client and decide if that amount of data is normal. If so, then you need to change the Hobbit server configuration so it will accept more data from clients. Several of the tests have a link to "client data available" so you can see the message. There is also a CGI you can run to get the last client dump, but I forget what it is.

When I had this problem, I was getting very long host routing tables from AIX agents. Some crucial information was getting lost that appeared later in the client message, and this was causing false alarms to trigger. Since the routing table information did not appear to be used, I just disabled the "netstat -nr" test. Someday I may turn it back on and go modify the hobbitd configuration to allow more data -- and I will be "correct."

GLH

From: Scheblein, Adam [mailto:adam.scheblein at marquette.edu] 
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:27 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] proc/port error messages error messages



Greetings,

 

Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my

hobbitd section about my proc column for one of my hosts:

Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399,

limit 524288) First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports truncated (n=514197, limit=262144)

Any thoughts??

 

Thanks,

Adam