Conn test fails after server reboot

What's the ping command set to in your server configuration file? are you
using the 'xymonping' command or 'fping'? Make sure that which ever command
you are using has the sticky bit set on the actual executable to allow the
xymon user to run it.

Steve


On 13 July 2012 09:38, John Horne <user-e95f1ec2f147@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 14:45 +1000, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

How long did you wait between the reboot and restarting Xymon?

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:35 PM, John Horne
<user-e95f1ec2f147@xymon.invalid> wrote:

        Using Xymon 4.3.7 I have noticed that if I reboot the Xymon
        server then the 'conn' test fails for all the clients. E.g.:
        ============================
        Thu Jul 12 10:24:11 2012 conn NOT ok
        Service conn on dns1 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
        System unreachable for 5 poll periods (984 seconds)
        ============================
        If, from the server, I run 'ping' to the client then that
        works fine. So does fping. If I stop then start the Xymon
        service on the server then the client conn tests all report
        ok.

Hello,

I have waited various amounts of time, from as soon as I could log in
(about a minute or two since rebooting), up to about an hour.

I should have added that after a reboot, and when the conn tests are
red, then they stay red! Yet the clients are all up and running, and are
pingable. At what time I restart Xymon seems to make no difference, once
it is done then the tests start to turn green.

I can only assume that there is some initial condition which causes the
ping to fail, but that it remains in force until Xymon is restarted.
Very odd. I will investigate, but am a little lost as to why, say after
5, 10, 60 (!) mins, the tests do not automatically turn green.

I added 'trace' to one client in hosts,cfg, and it shows the traceroute
working fine but the test is still red and saying the ping failed.


John.

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