LOL! Funny, but kinda rude.
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 1:50 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] bbtest yellow-mystery
To my knowledge the best thing that relates to this is T.J.'s RTFM
guide. I browsed through it when the IRC channel was first
created...long ago.
You can always ask logical questions after searching the docs in IRC.
Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carl Melgaard <user-cdea55422fa4@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
Yes, that is only for disabling alerting to create a maintenance window.
It doesn't stop the checks from occurring. Thanks.
Great, I feel like a beginner now. Is there any day-to-day operations-manual
in the Xymon-documentation/wiki somewhere? I think I've missed the basic
Xymon operation-guidelines somehow.
/melgaard
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Carl Melgaard <user-cdea55422fa4@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Hi,
Have you disabled alerting for that host or commented it out in your
bb-hosts? The way to disable a "check" for a host is to remove the check or
comment out the host in the bb-hosts. If you have just disabled the
"alerting", then it will continue to do the "check", just not alert you.
I've used the Enable/Disable-options in he Administration-part of Xymon,
to disable the tests (the hobbit-enadis.sh-script) - is that just
alert-disabling?
/melgaard
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Carl Melgaard <user-cdea55422fa4@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Hi,
One of our AD-servers went down for maintenance for 1 week, and I
disabled
the conn+dns tests in Xymon for that period. Now the "bbtest" column
suddenly goes yellow, and indicates that DNS lookups takes 450+
seconds
now (indicating that the DNS-check for the maintenanced server is
still
active).
No, it indicates that the Xymon server is taking a long time to resolve
host
names to IP addresses. You may need to configure the DNS client
settings on the
Xymon server (e.g. adjust the 'server' parameters in /etc/resolv.conf).
If you have most IP addresses hardcoded correctly in bb-hosts, you may
want to
add the 'testip' flag to the relevant lines of bb-hosts.
But why is the check still running against the AD-host I've disabled? It
looks like its that exact dns-check that takes 450 seconds to run (timeout).
Looking at the DNS-statistics:
DNS tests executed 4602546.200466
450.096498
which is the normal checks + the 450 second timeout. All other dns-checks
run fine.
Shouldnt I except something like this (from the conn checks):
"System unreachable for 764 poll periods (363317 seconds)"
instead of:
"Service dns on xxx07 is OK
Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test
Host appears to be down
Timeout
Seconds: 450.003"
when I've disabled all the checks on the host, and the server is powered
down? Or am I missing something here?
/melgaard
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