On Feb 12, 2016, at 3:00 AM, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote:
Is there any chance you have multiple servers reporting in with the name
'mgmtconsole'? Especially if you're not using FQDN (which it doesn't seem
like you are), that seems like something that might cause this: Two
different servers with the same name, each sending their own red/green
states every few minutes.
Thanks JC. Interesting theory: you see, the old syslog server was on a
separate machine and it never had this Flapping status issue, despite it
getting all of the same syslog messages. "mgmtconsole" is my Xymon server
so I thought "Oh maybe because it's acting as both server and client that's
what's screwing it up", but before this I never got any anomalous alerts
from "mgmtconsole" itself, just the expected reds/yellows from any
(ab)normal condition that triggered them.
So no, there aren't two different servers (and yes, I don't use FQHN's).
The perma-red state is back, btw. So, given that the old syslog server
wasn't in perma-red/Flapping state, why would the new syslog/Xymon combo
server be in it? Also, given that the actual contents of "/var/log/messages"
aren't causing red alerts, is the red alert state caused solely by it
flapping between yellow and green? (I still don't get why the old machine
wasn't in a similar perma-red/Flapping state.)
Where should I look to try and cure this?
Thanks,
- Greg