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Attack of the purple port

list Jeff Newman
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:26:52 -0500
Message-Id: <user-36112da82948@xymon.invalid>

Yellow "hobbitd" status points to either hobbitd just being restarted,
or some errormessages logged at the bottom of the hobbitd status
display. If the latter, what are those messages ? (They should be in
the hobbitd.log file also).
you were right, hobbitd was yellow because I had restarted it. It's
green now, but ports is still purple.
If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client
data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is
there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is
probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the
"hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory).
Looking at "client data" link, there is no section beginning with "[ports]"
I stopped the hobbit server, no hobbit processes running, then emptied
hobbitclient.log, and restarted hobbit (so I can get a fresh view of
hobbitclient.log)
and waited ~15 minutes, and saw nothing show up in hobbitclient.log.
Just so it's noted, /var/log/hobbit/hobbitclient.log is owned and
writeable by hobbit, and other log files are being updated.

I also noticed that in /usr/local/hobbit/data/rrd/<server> there is no
ports.rrd file
hobbitd_client is running.

help! :-) I'll try rebooting the server. Nope, that didn't fix it....

-Jeff

On 8/30/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:00:17AM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:
Everything is working great! *except* (hah, you knew that was coming didn't
you)
Yep, that introduction usually ends with such reservation
the ports status is purple for my hobbit server, and like the few
others on here, my hobbitd goes yellow. UNLIKE others here, I have no
messages that I can find anywhere about truncated data. I added
MAXMSG_CLIENT=1024
to the hobbitserver.cfg and restarted, but this didn't fix the problem.
Yellow "hobbitd" status points to either hobbitd just being restarted,
or some errormessages logged at the bottom of the hobbitd status
display. If the latter, what are those messages ? (They should be in
the hobbitd.log file also).
Perhaps I am not looking in the correct logfile? Maybe there is a
setting I am overlooking? If there is more info i can provide, please
let me know. I do not have any port checks defined, but on all my
other boxes, it doesn't display purple, it just shows gray with the
data.
If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client
data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is
there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is
probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the
"hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory).


Regards,
Henrik