Hi
I can't work this out. I have two practically identical Xymon (4.3.0) servers successfully monitoring a few other servers. Both have identical hosts.cfg files and present identical results for all monitored hosts, as well as themselves.
The strange thing is that the "xymond" column for the first server is green but is a dash "-" for the second server. It looks the same on both servers. I can't see anything in the logs to indicate a problem. The only configuration difference between the two servers is the setting of XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME and XYMONSERVERIP in xymonserver.cfg. Can anyone suggest why the difference, or where to look for problems?
Cheers Jeremy
Now I'm even more confused about this. For a short time, the server without any xymond data started getting something, but I'm guessing it stopped and later turned purple. I've tried clearing the test but it remains purple. At one stage my "all non-green" page showed the purple, and then showed a transition from yellow to green as the most recent in the list of events in the last 240 minutes.
Perhaps I should clear out all history and all status values and checkpoints, and start all over again. I'm guessing I can do this by stopping, deleting everything in $XYMONTMP, and starting again. I'd prefer not to, but could this be my only option?
J
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
Hi I can't work this out. I have two practically identical Xymon (4.3.0) servers successfully monitoring a few other servers. Both have identical hosts.cfg files and present identical results for all monitored hosts, as well as themselves. The strange thing is that the "xymond" column for the first server is green but is a dash "-" for the second server.
I'm still unable to solve this problem. My Xymon display is now always purple, and I can't fix it. I've tried clearing out $XYMONTMP with xymon stopped, then restarting, but it's still showing purple on the xymond dot. Any ideas?
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
Now I'm even more confused about this. For a short time, the server without any xymond data started getting something, but I'm guessing it stopped and later turned purple. I've tried clearing the test but it remains purple. At one stage my "all non-green" page showed the purple, and then showed a transition from yellow to green as the most recent in the list of events in the last 240 minutes.
Perhaps I should clear out all history and all status values and checkpoints, and start all over again. I'm guessing I can do this by stopping, deleting everything in $XYMONTMP, and starting again. I'd prefer not to, but could this be my only option?
J
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
Hi I can't work this out. I have two practically identical Xymon (4.3.0) servers successfully monitoring a few other servers. Both have identical hosts.cfg files and present identical results for all monitored hosts, as well as themselves. The strange thing is that the "xymond" column for the first server is green but is a dash "-" for the second server.
I may have narrowed this problem down a bit. The XYMSERVERS setting had IP address for server1 and then server2. If I take out server1's IP address on server2, I start getting xymond status updates and it goes green. I'll play a bit more to see if changing the order (keeping both addresses) will also work OK.
It's as if the xymond status is only using the first of these addresses and not notifying both servers. This seems like a bug to me. I was hoping to be able to keep the xymonserver.cfg file identical between the two servers.
J
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
I'm still unable to solve this problem. My Xymon display is now always purple, and I can't fix it. I've tried clearing out $XYMONTMP with xymon stopped, then restarting, but it's still showing purple on the xymond dot. Any ideas?
OMG I think that's it. This problem also prevented Devmon from working. Devmon found all sorts of interesting things but the dots would never show.
Perhaps the installation doco could point this out?
J
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