Any help here? I've tried a number of different things to attempt to solve these on my own, but nothing has worked. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Skadz
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ryan Skadberg <user-fd74ceebcd5d@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi All -
I've been running hobbit/xymon for a long time, but I've finally just joined the list due to a number of issues after I
upgraded from 4.2.3 to 4.3.5. I walked through and fixed all the file names and everything SEEMS ok, but am seeing a number
of strange things:
a) When I start up xymon, I don't get my previous state back. The xymond options have:
--restart=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
--checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
And the files has data:
8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
But when I restart the server or service, I seem to lose all data and anything that has been disabled or acked is now once
again back to it's starting state.
b) I can't seem to add new machines. I add a machine to hosts.cfg and analysis.cfg and it shows up on the web page, but it
never seems to actually receive any data. I've tried reloading the service, but that doesn't seem to help. I even tried
something like:
xymon localhost 'enable machine.company.com'
But it did not help. I see on the Ghost client page that it seems to recognize the correlation as it has a candidate, but
isn't doing anything. Do I need to do something different with this newer version to enable a machine instead of just adding
it to the two files?
c) Last issue is very similar to the previous issue. I removed a machine from the hosts.cfg file, then ran:
xymon localhost 'drop machine.company.com'
But when it didn't check in for an hour, it still seemingly went purple and sent out emails/pages. I did a reload on the
service and this now seems to have stopped, but I don't think it should have happened in the first place.
d) I get startup errors that don't seem to make a ton of sense:
In xymonlaunch.log, I see:
2011-10-25 12:11:51 xymonlaunch starting
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot open directory
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading hostnames
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot load host data
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Loading saved state
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk for restore
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up signal handlers
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up xymond channels
2011-10-25 12:11:51 Setting up logfiles
As I said, I am seeing all of the hosts that I have in the system and have double checked the permissions and the xymon user
can most definitely access all of the files, so why am I getting these errors?
[xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ whoami
xymon
[xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ wc -l /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
8136 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
[xymon at vir5ob xymon]$ ls -als /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
31756 -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 32474378 Oct 26 17:54 /usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/xymond.chk
I am also seeing:
2011-10-26 17:54:50 Cannot load host data
in my xymond.log every 10 minutes. As I said, any files seem to be accessible as far as I can tell, but maybe since the error
message is not very verbose, I am not looking in the right place.
I know these probably all seem like newbie questions, but I have done all the debugging I seem to be able to do and can't
figure anything out on these. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Skadz