4.3.4 proxy to a 4.2.3 server

I spoke to soon. Which is good. At least I have some consistency.

The test box was able to ping the DEVMON machines, so no purple. I put noconn in the bb-hosts file, and that brought the blanket purple across the whole devmon machines. I also noticed that there was no ntp columns anywhere. The test server doesn't run the ntp test, just the proxy.

So, here's what I know: The 4.3.4 proxy server does not forward  conn and ntp tests to its servers.

And that almost makes sense. Those two tests would be run in the server part of the server, not the client or the proxy, so it probably never tells the proxy anything about them, and therefore it doesn't propagate.

So, now the question is, why does the 4.2.3 server propagate those tests through the proxy? And why are other tests like http not show this problem?

Actually, may it does, but I have http in all bb-hosts/hosts.cfg files. I'll test that next.

And lastly, how to I get the proxy to propagate those tests? Because, the main server can't get through the firewall for much of that.

Paul.

Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is now CenturyLink

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
Behalf Of Root, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:57 AM
To: 'Henrik Størner'; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] 4.3.4 proxy to a 4.2.3 server


So I removed xymon completely from my test server, and reinstalled
4.2.3. It only gets it's info from the 4.3.4 proxy server not both.

Works fine.

Which just goes to confuse me more.


Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is now CenturyLink

-----Original Message-----
From: Root, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:09 AM
To: Root, Paul; 'Henrik Størner'; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [Xymon] 4.3.4 proxy to a 4.2.3 server

Ok, I fixed the rrd issue, and I'm getting graphs again. So that's
good.

I stopped the second proxy for testing and sure enough, 15-20 minutes
later, the conn's for all the devmon routers went purple. All the
tests
seemed fine just the conn.
Also, ntp went purple on a bunch as well.

I was starting to thing devmon was reporting straight to the server
port instead of the proxy, but the test server is getting updates. So
I'm kind of stumped.

This is my tasks.cfg entry:
[xymond]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
        CMD xymond --listen=0.0.0.0:1985 --
pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.pid --restart=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk --
checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --
log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.log --admin-
senders=127.0.0.1,$XYMONSERVERIP --store-clientlogs=!msgs

[xymonproxy]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
        CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonproxy --
server=127.0.0.1:1985,172.28.96.89,192.168.141.212 --
listen=0.0.0.0:1984 --report=$MACHINE.xymonproxy --no-daemon --
pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonproxy.pid
        LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonproxy.log

I see connections with netstat -a on the server, and tcpdump port

1984

and hostname stnxymproxy gives me lots of output.


Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is now CenturyLink

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
Behalf Of Root, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:24 PM
To: 'Henrik Størner'; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] 4.3.4 proxy to a 4.2.3 server

Ok, thanks.

I'll check the primary, I thought I saw traffic from the 4.3.4
machine,
maybe not.

Ah, ha! Right, the test server has rrd 1.4.5, I don't have that on
the
proxy.

Paul Root    - Engineer III  - Qwest is now CenturyLink

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:18 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] 4.3.4 proxy to a 4.2.3 server

On 24-08-2011 21:32, Root, Paul wrote:

Is there an issue with a 4.3.4 sending proxy data to an older
server?

Don't think so. There has only been two changes in the proxy code
going
from 4.2.3 -> 4.3.4:

a) the proxy will no longer forward "page" messages as sent by
old

(Big

Brother style) clients - Xymon doesn't use these at all.

b) the "--hobbitd" option has been removed; xymonproxy always
assumes
it
is sending data to a Xymon server, so it re-packages combo-
messages
and
adds information about what proxy the message passed through.

I don't see either of these changes breaking compatibility with a

4.2.x

server. On the old Hobbit server, do you see any connections from
the
proxy (check with netstat) ? Does the proxy log show that it is
sending
data to the old server ?

I also just found some other information, on the 4.3.4 in the
log
files:
2011-08-24 14:20:52 Peer not up, flushing message queue
xymond_rrd: error while loading shared libraries: librrd.so.4:

cannot

open shared object file: No such file or directory

The rrdtool libraries are missing from the server where you are
running
Xymon, or at least xymond_rrd cannot find them. My guess is that
you've
compiled the Xymon server software on another system than where
you
are
running it. Make sure you have rrdtool installed, with the same
major
version as you had on the system where it was compiled.


Regards,
Henrik

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