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msgcache hobbitfetch problems

list Steinar M. Skúlason
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:12:30 +0000
Message-Id: <user-1338b0ee1f83@xymon.invalid>

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Daniel McDonald <
user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On 2/8/10 10:37 AM, "Steinar M. Skúlason" <user-3b78224d184c@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,

I'm having problems with "msgcache" on the client machines and
"hobbitfetch"
on the server machine.
It works for a short period and then get's stuck and all my client side
checks
end up with status purple.
Yup.  Been doing that for a long time here.  I sent a bunch of corefiles to
Henrik about it, and he tried a bunch of patches.  Eventually, we just
wrote
a routine that restarts hobbitfetch whenever a host turns purple.

--
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281

Ok, good to hear that I am not the only one.
I wrote a ugly routine that restarts hobbitfetch if there is no new entry in
the logfile


#!/bin/bash

#This is to see if any progress has been made within the hobbitfetch
utility.
TMP_FILE=/tmp/tmp.hobbitfetch.last
LAST_LINE=`tail -1 /usr/lib/xymon/server/log/hobbitfetch.log|awk '{print $1
$2}'`
PREV_LINE=`cat /tmp/tmp.hobbitfetch.last`
echo $LAST_LINE > $TMP_FILE

if [ "$LAST_LINE" == "$PREV_LINE" ]; then
  echo "Nothing has happend .... killing hobbitfetch!"
  PID=`ps -ef|grep hobbitfetch|awk '{print $2}'`
  kill -9 $PID
fi

Best Regards,
Steinar M.