Trying running the main client script by hand to make sure none of the
commands hang (from the client ~/client/bin directory):
./bbcmd sh -x hobbitclient-<your OS>.sh # replace <your OS> with the
proper OS
If ~/client/tmp/msg.<hostname>.txt is being created then there is
probably no need to execute the line above. You checked for ghosts as
others sugested right?
~David
From: Tim Grzechowski [mailto:user-ad307ef791f0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 21:16
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Purple Problems
The Ghost Client list is blank and blue (Disabled?).
Checked eight clients out of the ~100 and all of them are able
to telnet to the server on port 1984 without issue.
Shutdown the client on a client only machine. Copy /dev/null to
hobbitclient.log and clientlaunch.log . Started 'runclient.sh start'
-- hobbitclient.log is empty. clientlaunch.log has two lines that show
it has started.
No change.
I shut down the client (on the server) and hobbit server itself.
Checked / cleared the logs. Restarted both the server, and after a
couple minutes restarted client on the server as well.
No change. Still not showing at of the pertinent info.
On the server checked client-local.cfg and bb-hosts in hobbit's
/etc directory and they are fine and the last day of access was weeks
before this issue popped up.
Any other ideas?
/tg
P.S. All the file systems have ample available space.
From: Stef Coene [mailto:user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2009 17:44:28 +0100
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Purple Problems
What you did with your script is deleting all checks that are
purple.
A purple check is a check that has not been updated for a while.
So removing
a purple check can be done in 2 ways: like you did by deleting
the check or
by sending a new status. In your case, you need to check why
the status is
not been send to the hobbit server. Check the client logs, you
can also try
a telnet on the hobbit port (default 1984) from the client to
the hobbit
server to see if there is a network problem. Also, check the
ghost client
list (can be found on the hobbit server in the menu).
Happy new year and wishes you all a good monitoring time,
Stef