On Mon, February 13, 2012 8:13 pm, Mark wrote:
I've installed Xymon on my home network as testing for a possible
installation
at work. It's working fine on three out of the four systems, but on the
fourth, the client only reports its status to the server once, immediately
after being started.
The problem computer is a Pentium MMX with 48MB RAM, running Gentoo Linux.
It looks as if the client is getting hung in the process of sending the
second
report: "ps aux" shows a sleeping "xymonlaunch" process, and the XYMONTMP
directory contains a "xymon_vmstat" file with a timestamp five minutes
after
the successful update.
I could probably work around this with cron job to restart the client
every
five minutes, but I'd rather fix it properly. Any suggestions on what
might
be going wrong, or other things I could look at?
Thanks,
Mark Wagner
The vmstat file there sounds normal... Can you run xymonlaunch with
--debug and see what it's reporting back? Also, strace what it's doing
when the next expected run occurs?
For testing purposes you can bring the interval down to 30s or so. The
only change you should notice is having multiple backgrounded vmstat
processes going at once in a round-robin fashion.
-jc