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Xymon Client dies unexpectedly?

list J. Bobby Lopez
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:26:54 -0400
Message-Id: <user-ea8335fa90cf@xymon.invalid>

I was searching for something like that, but haven't found any.  Where would
the core files reside?

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>wrote:
That sounds like the client runs once, sends some info, then quits.  Thirty
minutes later the display goes purple because no further reports were
received.  Are there any core files??

Ralph Mitchell


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:26 AM, J. Bobby Lopez <user-cf5303e672c8@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Having an odd problem that I'm not quite sure how to troubleshoot it.

I'm using Xymon 4.2.3 on Debian (kernel 2.4.27-2-386).

I have one client which was was installed as user 'xymon'
(configure/make/make install).

I run the client with 'runclient.sh start' and I see the services go great
on the web interface.  All looks great.

After about 30 minutes however, the client seems to stop sending reports
to the server, and all services go purple.

Here's what I see when looking at the process listing on the client when
things are working correctly:

xymon at JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
/home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
--config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
--log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
--pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid
xymon    25724     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2
1>/home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707 2>&1; mv
/home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01.25707
/home/xymon/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.JBLDMZWEB01

And then when the client stops reporting to the server, the process
listing looks like this:

xymon at JBLDMZWEB01:~/client$ ps -ef | grep hobbit
xymon    25702     1  0 05:23 ?        00:00:00
/home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
--config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
--log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log
--pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.JBLDMZWEB01.pid


So other than the virtual memory stats missing from the process list, it
seems like it should still be sending reports.

I've checked the log files in 'logs/' and 'tmp/' but found nothing useful.

This is a pretty fresh install of the Xymon server/client, so there isn't
really much that hsould be affecting it.

Should I be running the client as root?  Does it provide more logs that
way?

Any thoughts?


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J. Bobby Lopez
Web: http://jbldata.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbobbylopez