Attack of the purple port
list Jeff Newman
Hi, I just upgraded my hobbit server to 4.2.0 on a RH AS4 box. Everything is working great! *except* (hah, you knew that was coming didn't you) the ports status is purple for my hobbit server, and like the few others on here, my hobbitd goes yellow. UNLIKE others here, I have no messages that I can find anywhere about truncated data. I added MAXMSG_CLIENT=1024 to the hobbitserver.cfg and restarted, but this didn't fix the problem. Perhaps I am not looking in the correct logfile? Maybe there is a setting I am overlooking? If there is more info i can provide, please let me know. I do not have any port checks defined, but on all my other boxes, it doesn't display purple, it just shows gray with the data. Thanks, jeff
list Henrik Størner
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:00:17AM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:
Everything is working great! *except* (hah, you knew that was coming didn't you)
Yep, that introduction usually ends with such reservation
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the ports status is purple for my hobbit server, and like the few others on here, my hobbitd goes yellow. UNLIKE others here, I have no messages that I can find anywhere about truncated data. I added MAXMSG_CLIENT=1024 to the hobbitserver.cfg and restarted, but this didn't fix the problem.
Yellow "hobbitd" status points to either hobbitd just being restarted, or some errormessages logged at the bottom of the hobbitd status display. If the latter, what are those messages ? (They should be in the hobbitd.log file also).
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Perhaps I am not looking in the correct logfile? Maybe there is a setting I am overlooking? If there is more info i can provide, please let me know. I do not have any port checks defined, but on all my other boxes, it doesn't display purple, it just shows gray with the data.
If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the "hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory). Regards, Henrik
list Jeff Newman
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Yellow "hobbitd" status points to either hobbitd just being restarted, or some errormessages logged at the bottom of the hobbitd status display. If the latter, what are those messages ? (They should be in the hobbitd.log file also).
you were right, hobbitd was yellow because I had restarted it. It's green now, but ports is still purple.
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If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the "hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory).
Looking at "client data" link, there is no section beginning with "[ports]" I stopped the hobbit server, no hobbit processes running, then emptied hobbitclient.log, and restarted hobbit (so I can get a fresh view of hobbitclient.log) and waited ~15 minutes, and saw nothing show up in hobbitclient.log. Just so it's noted, /var/log/hobbit/hobbitclient.log is owned and writeable by hobbit, and other log files are being updated. I also noticed that in /usr/local/hobbit/data/rrd/<server> there is no ports.rrd file hobbitd_client is running. help! :-) I'll try rebooting the server. Nope, that didn't fix it.... -Jeff
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On 8/30/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:00:17AM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:Everything is working great! *except* (hah, you knew that was coming didn't you)Yep, that introduction usually ends with such reservationthe ports status is purple for my hobbit server, and like the few others on here, my hobbitd goes yellow. UNLIKE others here, I have no messages that I can find anywhere about truncated data. I added MAXMSG_CLIENT=1024 to the hobbitserver.cfg and restarted, but this didn't fix the problem.Yellow "hobbitd" status points to either hobbitd just being restarted, or some errormessages logged at the bottom of the hobbitd status display. If the latter, what are those messages ? (They should be in the hobbitd.log file also).Perhaps I am not looking in the correct logfile? Maybe there is a setting I am overlooking? If there is more info i can provide, please let me know. I do not have any port checks defined, but on all my other boxes, it doesn't display purple, it just shows gray with the data.If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the "hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory). Regards, Henrik
list Henrik Størner
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:26:52PM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:
If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the "hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory).Looking at "client data" link, there is no section beginning with "[ports]"
So - is there such a section in the original message data on the client ? Check the ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.HOSTNAME.txt file. Regards, Henrik
list Jeff Newman
Just to follow up on this, I ended up fixing the problem. I had stomped on the client install on the sever, so fixing the client on the server fixed the problem. Thanks for your assistance. Other than AIX 4.2.1 compile problem, all looking great so far.
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On 8/30/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:26:52PM -0500, Jeff Newman wrote:If you view any status for the Hobbit server, there should be a "Client data" link at the bottom of the page. If you click on that link, is there a section beginning with "[ports]" ? If not, the client logfile is probably the best place to start troubleshooting it (the "hobbitclient.log" in the Hobbit logs directory).Looking at "client data" link, there is no section beginning with "[ports]"So - is there such a section in the original message data on the client ? Check the ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.HOSTNAME.txt file. Regards, Henrik