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fping error code 4

list Vernon Everett
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:27:40 +0800
Message-Id: <user-3a62c564e0d9@xymon.invalid>

Hi all

"TIME SPENT" is showing the odd spike now and then, but the highest I have
seen is 9.8 seconds.
And these peaks do not coincide with the fping issues.

I did a little more research, and discovered 2 instances of fping.
#  /opt/csw/sbin/fping -v
/opt/csw/sbin/fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
/opt/csw/sbin/fping: comments to user-eaf9c6286157@xymon.invalid

# /usr/local/sbin/fping -v
/usr/local/sbin/fping: Version 3.0
/usr/local/sbin/fping: comments to user-359c54915310@xymon.invalid

/opt/csw/sbin/fping is the one I installed recently using OpenCSW's
pkgutil, but the Xymon config was pointing to /usr/local/sbin/fping
I have switched the FPING= definition in ~/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg to
point to the OpenCSW version.
Let's see if this improves matters.

Regards
Vernon


On 11 January 2013 08:16, Jeremy Laidman <user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I think the key here is the "select".  To me, this suggests that the
select() system call (which is used to read data on STDIN from xymonnet) is
trying to get data from a closed socket, or a similar problem.  I wonder if
fping, which is run from xymonnet, is sometimes taking so long to run, and
eventually xymonlaunch is killing xymonnet.

By default, xymonlaunch (in tasks.cfg) kills xymonnet after 5 minutes, but
xymonnetagain is killed off after only 1 minute.  So if you have a lot of
hosts that are uncontactable, or have long ping times, then this might add
up to a minute.

To confirm this, check out the "xymonnet" dot on your Xymon server, and
look at the "TIME SPENT" table for ping test duration.

J


On 10 January 2013 17:12, Vernon Everett <user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all

Anybody seen something like this?

Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 4


/usr/local/sbin/fping: select : Invalid argument

Error I see when xymonnet page goes red.
At the same time, all conn tests go white.
Happens briefly every few hours. No obvious pattern, but at least once a
day, sometimes twice.

This is a new installation of Xymon 4.3.10, on a relatively old Solaris
10 Sparc server.

Regards
Vernon

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