Yes, you are correct, DNS Tests:
TIME SPENT
Event Start time Duration
xymonnet startup 56982.063059 -
Service definitions loaded 56982.063799 0.000739 Tests loaded 56982.112916 0.049116 DNS lookups completed 56987.113241 5.000324 Test engine setup completed 56987.121448 0.008207 TCP tests completed 56999.227356 12.105907 PING test completed (1088 hosts) 57034.610220 35.382864 PING test results sent 57034.630133 0.019912 Test result collection completed 57034.630481 0.000347 LDAP test engine setup completed 57034.630482 0.000000 LDAP tests executed 57034.630482 0.000000 LDAP tests result collection completed 57034.630482 0.000000 DNS tests executed 57378.220329 343.589846 Test results transmitted 57378.266216 0.045887 xymonnet completed 57378.267156 0.000939 TIME TOTAL 396.204096
For the xymonserver.cfg, what is the proper way to configure when you have 2 xymon servers (1 primary and 1 instant backup server that gets the same data from all the reporting clients)? Should I change it from multiple to single in the xymonserver.cfg? but still have both listed in the xymonclient.cfg?
Thanks,
-Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:40 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond and xymonnet quirks
On 18-08-2011 06:41, Poppy, Ben wrote:
After getting the latest Xymon 4.3.4 finally working on CentOS 6 64-bit,
I'm seeing a few quirks that I'd appreciate some input on.
First, under Xymonnet tests, it's alerting Yellow because the time spent
is too long (over 300). The culprit is DNS tests executed taking over
340 itself.. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Is it "DNS lookups" or "DNS tests" ?
I've had another report that there is a problem with timeout handling in the DNS *tests* (the explicit tests to see if a dns server is working), which would show up in the latter line, whereas the ordinary DNS *lookups* (those performed to see what IP we should use to probe all the hosts in hosts.cfg) work OK.
Next, under Xymond, I'm getting a ton of multiple statuses reports for
CONN tests. I can't seem to find a clear archive of what would cause
that other than having both IP's listed when you have 2 display servers..
Both servers reference each other as a client and in xymonserver.cfg..
No wonder you get that warning, then. With both servers listing each other in xymonserver.cfg, then the network tests you run on each server will send the results to both of your servers - so server A will be getting all of the "conn" status reports both from server A and server B. Hence the warning - there are two systems reporting the same data.
Regards,
Henrik
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