Hi.

We had this problem as well on a 4.3.0 install. I found on the mailing list that it was related to too big client messages. We increased the maxmsg_status variable on the server, and since that it has been working fine. Check your hobbit log if you have oversized status messages from clients.

/Johan

From: Steinar M. Skúlason [mailto:steinarms at gmail.com] Sent: den 24 februari 2010 17:30 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] DISK & MEMORY checks go red

it recovers automatically for me, just annoying to get emails with false positives. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Cade Robinson <cade.robinson at gmail.com<mailto:cade.robinson at gmail.com>> wrote: I have seen this too a couple times but not always on DMZ machines. I saw it on both linux and solaris and all I did was restart the client software and it fixed itself on next update.

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 15:20 +0000, Steinar M. Skúlason wrote:

Hi,

I am running xymon 4-3-0-beta2 ( revision 6223 ). I am having problems with clients ( all running in dmz mode using msgcache ) where they sometimes show alert for disk and memory, and usually check shows usage as several hundred % which is obviously due to some error in the check. I have not found out why this happens.

Anyone else with similar problems ? and maybe found a solution or a workaround ?

Best Regards, Steinar M.

Thank you Johan and Stewart.

For google's sake I put the variables here, I'm trying these over sized values and see how that will turn out.

MAXMSG_STATUS=30000000 MAXMSG_CLIENT=30000000 MAXMSG_DATA=30000000

If I run into problems then I will try something more realistic.

Best Regards, Steinar M.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Stewart, Tom L. <Tom.Stewart at landsend.com>wrote:

I got rid of this by increasing the MAXMSG_* within the hobbitserver.cfg file. Although it looks like when you get rid of the alert issues, you start getting holes (previously noted by many) in a few of the rrd files.

Tom

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*From:* Steinar M. Skúlason [mailto:steinarms at gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:20 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* [hobbit] DISK & MEMORY checks go red

Hi,

I am running xymon 4-3-0-beta2 ( revision 6223 ). I am having problems with clients ( all running in dmz mode using msgcache ) where they sometimes show alert for disk and memory, and usually check shows usage as several hundred % which is obviously due to some error in the check. I have not found out why this happens.

Anyone else with similar problems ? and maybe found a solution or a workaround ?

Best Regards, Steinar M.