Xymond and xymonnet quirks

We just ran into this same problem and removing the 'dns' tag from one DNS
server (non-production) which wasn't working reduced the time to do the DNS
tests from over 300 seconds to 22. This was after already tuning the
options on the xymonnet call.

Also, WRT the unknown option --timelimit, we think that in (4.3.7)
xymonnet.c starting at line 2011:

    else if (strcmp(argv[argi], "--timelimit=") == 0) {
      char *p = strchr(argv[argi], '=');
      p++; runtimewarn = atol(p);
    }
    else if (strcmp(argv[argi], "--huge=") == 0) {
      char *p = strchr(argv[argi], '=');
      p++; warnbytesread = atoi(p);
    }

Both of the strcmp calls should be argnmatch. The second one is for a
different option, of course, but it probably would get the same error
without this fix. Note, I haven't tested this, but I'm pretty confident
that it is right.

Steve

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Poppy, Ben
<user-1ce99a2a9ef8@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Any progress on this by chance?

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Poppy, Ben
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:39 PM
To: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond and xymonnet quirks

Any progress on this issue by chance? Or is there any way to raise the
time limit that it alerts at? I did try putting in the following one at a
time in the xymonnet CMD line:

--no-ares
--timeout=500
--timelimit=500
--ping-tasks=10

None of them seemed to have had any effect (--timelimit said it wasn't a
valid option as well, but that's what is listed in the MAN page)..

I'm ok with the tests taking a while, we don't seem to have an issue. Just
want that yellow alert to get off the nongreen page, so our OPs staff stops
bugging me about it :)

Thanks

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From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 6:37 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Poppy, Ben
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond and xymonnet quirks

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:59:32 +0200, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 18-08-2011 21:58, Poppy, Ben wrote:

Will do. Any ideas on the DNS Tests item?

I'm looking into it. Not sure yet if it is caused by Xymon, or by the
upgrade of the C-ARES library (which is used for all of the DNS stuff).

Think I got it now. Would You mind trying out this patch for me ? To
apply:

 cd xymon-4.3.4
 patch -p0 < /tmp/dns-timeout.patch
 make
 cp -p ~xymon/server/bin/xymonnet ~xymon/server/bin/xymonnet.orig
 cp xymonnet/xymonnet ~xymon/server/bin/

This should enforce the normal timeout-setting for DNS tests also.


Regards,
Henrik

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