All the server side Xymon logs are in /var/log/xymon by default. Since you say that you are getting purple storms for conn and http tests, this suggests that the problem is likely with your xymonnet process. Check the xymonnet log, and when you see the purples check to see if there is a xymonnet instance running. If this instance has been running for more than a few minutes, kill it. If the xymonnet process is hanging, you might want to set the MAXTIME parameter on the xymonnet process in tasks.cfg. Doesn't really fix the problem, but it will at least stop things from going purple.

Thanks, Larry Barber

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com> wrote:

Update to this. While googling further, I saw a thread titled "[hobbit] stale alerts". This mentioned that there could be an external script that I created which may cause issues for xymon when it runs. I do have a diskstat.sh script that may be causing problems. For now, I'm setting it to DISABLED in the tasks.cfg file.

Is there a way to see log information in xymon to try and verify something like this?

Thanks

Don K

From: Don Kuhlman <don.kuhlman at schawk.com> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:34:29 -0600 To: Xymon Email List <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Troubleshooting Purple CONN and HTTP Tests in Xymon 4.3.10

Hi folks. We've been running xymon for about 10 months now. It's been fine all this time.

However last week around Wednesday we started getting purple storms on the CONN and HTTP tests for all our hosts. I stop Xymon and restart it, or reboot the server (Linux 5.x) and then it comes back ok. This also happened Thursday, and then again Saturday around 2PM cst.

Anyone have a link or source for which logs to look in on the server or xymon to see what may be causing the CONN and HTTP tests to randomly start failing like this or where to start troubleshooting?

Can I use xymonlaunch —debug like this to see what is happening? /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymonlaunch --debug --config=/usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg --env=/usr/lib64/etc/xymonserver.cfg

While searching the xymon forum and message boards, I saw some things that say it may be disk space or inodes, but it seems like we are ok there - df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda2 3899392 204731 3694661 6% / tmpfs 490139 6 490133 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 32768 51 32717 1% /boot

df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 61312028 5748784 52448700 10% / tmpfs 1960556 188 1960368 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 516040 87716 402112 18% /boot

DNS also seems fine.

Thanks

Don K

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