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Purple Problems

list Henrik Størner
Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:49:09 +0000 (UTC)
Message-Id: <gjsvk5$7u6$user-b57323b9108e@xymon.invalid>

In <user-b35e9ae0491b@xymon.invalid> Tim Grzechowski <user-ad307ef791f0@xymon.invalid> writes:
Something on the network blew up, router or switch.  Of course hobbit went
purple.  It was a Thursday afternoon and it was in the Network Gods hands at
this point.  They fixed it that night I had still had the purple condition
in the morning.  I checked both the server and clients (~100) and everything
was running.  I restarted both anyway and waited.  Went home for the
weekend.  Came in Monday and still had the purple plague.
I assume your Hobbit webpages are being updated ? (Check the timestamp
in the upper-right corner).

Is hobbitd_client running on the server ?

On one of the clients, login as the user running the HObbit client
and run the "bbcmd" tool. You'll get a new shell prompt. Do an
   echo $BB
   echo $BBDISP
and check that these point to the "bb" utility on the client, and the
IP-address of your Hobbit server. 

Then run
   $BB $BBDISP "ping"
You should get a response back from the Hobbit server.o

Next, run
   $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.purpletest green Checking status"

This sends a "purpletest" status-message to the Hobbit server. If
everything works OK, then you should get a "purpletest" status
column (in color green) for this client host) the next time the
Hobbit webpages are updated.

Let us know what you find out.


Regards,
Henrik