Help tracking down ghost client
list Robert Herron
Xymon 4.3.17 on Oracle Linux 6 I have a ghost showing up on the my "Ghost Clients" report and I can't figure out what's is happening. A quick search of the archive didn't turn up anything similar. On the Ghost Client report: Hostname Sent from Candidate Report age mail07.example.com 10.10.1.2 xymon.example.com 0:32 This "mail07" [g]hostname doesn't exist in my hosts.cfg. It was removed when the host was decommissioned two months ago. The "sent from" address is my Xymon server. The "report age" counts up to just over 3 minutes, resets to 0, and starts incrementing again. This [g]host was a net-only testing host -- CONN, SMTP, and HTTP. There are references to the [g]hostname in analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg but those shouldn't cause this. The "mail07" string does occur in the ~/server/tmp/xymond.chk file but it seems to be ghost report. The xymond.chk line ends in "nGhost reports:\n 10.10.1.2 reported host mail07.example.com\n|||0|0". No other file in ~/server/etc contains "mail07". I added "--debug" to the xymonnet's CMD line and to the ~/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh but "mail07" doesn't show up in either log. Any thoughts on where to look next? Thanks. Robert Herron user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid
list Patrick Nixon
Is there a new host on 10.10.1.2 that might be reporting into xymon? On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Robert Herron <user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid>
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Xymon 4.3.17 on Oracle Linux 6 I have a ghost showing up on the my "Ghost Clients" report and I can't figure out what's is happening. A quick search of the archive didn't turn up anything similar. On the Ghost Client report: Hostname Sent from Candidate Report age mail07.example.com 10.10.1.2 xymon.example.com 0:32 This "mail07" [g]hostname doesn't exist in my hosts.cfg. It was removed when the host was decommissioned two months ago. The "sent from" address is my Xymon server. The "report age" counts up to just over 3 minutes, resets to 0, and starts incrementing again. This [g]host was a net-only testing host -- CONN, SMTP, and HTTP. There are references to the [g]hostname in analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg but those shouldn't cause this. The "mail07" string does occur in the ~/server/tmp/xymond.chk file but it seems to be ghost report. The xymond.chk line ends in "nGhost reports:\n 10.10.1.2 reported host mail07.example.com\n|||0|0". No other file in ~/server/etc contains "mail07". I added "--debug" to the xymonnet's CMD line and to the ~/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh but "mail07" doesn't show up in either log. Any thoughts on where to look next? Thanks. Robert Herron user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid
list Paul Root
This generally means that the xymon server is still performing a test on this address. Do you have any ext scripts or maybe cron scripts that still are running to look at this machine. What I generally do is add the machine back into the hosts.cfg file so it will show up and tell me what test is the issue. Fix that and remove the host again.
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Robert Herron
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:25 PM
To: xymon
Subject: [Xymon] Help tracking down ghost client
Xymon 4.3.17 on Oracle Linux 6
I have a ghost showing up on the my "Ghost Clients" report and I can't figure out what's is happening. A quick search of the archive didn't turn up anything similar.
On the Ghost Client report:
Hostname Sent from Candidate Report agemail07.example.com<http://mail07.example.com>; 10.10.1.2 xymon.example.com<http://xymon.example.com>; 0:32
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This "mail07" [g]hostname doesn't exist in my hosts.cfg. It was removed when the host was decommissioned two months ago.
The "sent from" address is my Xymon server. The "report age" counts up to just over 3 minutes, resets to 0, and starts incrementing again.This [g]host was a net-only testing host -- CONN, SMTP, and HTTP. There are references to the [g]hostname in analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg but those shouldn't cause this. The "mail07" string does occur in the ~/server/tmp/xymond.chk file but it seems to be ghost report. The xymond.chk line ends in "nGhost reports:\n 10.10.1.2 reported host mail07.example.com<http://mail07.example.com>\n|||0|0";. No other file in ~/server/etc contains "mail07".
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I added "--debug" to the xymonnet's CMD line and to the ~/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh but "mail07" doesn't show up in either log.
Any thoughts on where to look next?
Thanks.
Robert Herron
user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid>
list Tres Finocchiaro
I've had incorrect IPs reported when there were invalid settings in DNS. Possibly another place to look if your server is configured to use DNS. - user-88678e65ced1@xymon.invalid On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>
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This generally means that the xymon server is still performing a test on this address. Do you have any ext scripts or maybe cron scripts that still are running to look at this machine. What I generally do is add the machine back into the hosts.cfg file so it will show up and tell me what test is the issue. Fix that and remove the host again. *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert Herron *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:25 PM *To:* xymon *Subject:* [Xymon] Help tracking down ghost client Xymon 4.3.17 on Oracle Linux 6 I have a ghost showing up on the my "Ghost Clients" report and I can't figure out what's is happening. A quick search of the archive didn't turn up anything similar. On the Ghost Client report: Hostname Sent from Candidate Report age mail07.example.com 10.10.1.2 xymon.example.com 0:32 This "mail07" [g]hostname doesn't exist in my hosts.cfg. It was removed when the host was decommissioned two months ago. The "sent from" address is my Xymon server. The "report age" counts up to just over 3 minutes, resets to 0, and starts incrementing again. This [g]host was a net-only testing host -- CONN, SMTP, and HTTP. There are references to the [g]hostname in analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg but those shouldn't cause this. The "mail07" string does occur in the ~/server/tmp/xymond.chk file but it seems to be ghost report. The xymond.chk line ends in "nGhost reports:\n 10.10.1.2 reported host mail07.example.com\n|||0|0". No other file in ~/server/etc contains "mail07". I added "--debug" to the xymonnet's CMD line and to the ~/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh but "mail07" doesn't show up in either log. Any thoughts on where to look next? Thanks. Robert Herron user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid
list Robert Herron
This was the trick. There was an external test/script still using the old mail server's name. This external test was under the Xymon's server's ~xymon/client/ext directory and I didn't think to look there with my "it must be a xymonnet test" blinders. Thanks for the help. Robert Herron user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>
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This generally means that the xymon server is still performing a test on this address. Do you have any ext scripts or maybe cron scripts that still are running to look at this machine. What I generally do is add the machine back into the hosts.cfg file so it will show up and tell me what test is the issue. Fix that and remove the host again.