I have a couple of servers that I just started monitoring. These servers exist to run haproxy, a load balancer. The haproxy program tends to leave a lot of TIME_WAIT connections in the netstat output. This is resulting in a client report that is too big, and I am getting false red alarms on procs, because it can't find the cron process.
Is there any way to have specific clients filter out TIME_WAIT before sending in their reports? If so, can it be controlled from the server? I have also been looking for ways to make haproxy clean up after itself better, but that so far is a dead end.
The client is CentOS 6 running 4.3.7 from a package, the server is running 4.3.0 beta using packages in the debian repository. I know I need to get it upgraded. It's on my todo list, but because of the hobbit->xymon change throughout the program, upgrading is not going to be pretty, and I keep putting it off.
Thanks,
Shawn