Solaris msgs alert not clearing 🔗 link

From: Larry Barber [user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was triggered over 2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even though no new alert-worthy messages have appeared in the message log. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0 server, I'm not sure what the version of the client is since I don't have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be a good idea to include the Hobbit client version in the client data).

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi,

This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so please
take with a grain of salt.

If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the logs (has
not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so it's still in the
last 10240 range?

Tim


From: Larry Barber [user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was triggered over
2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even though no new alert-worthy
messages have appeared in the message log. Has anybody else seen this
behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0 server, I'm not sure what the version of the
client is since I don't have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be
a good idea to include the Hobbit client version in the client data).

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 02/11/2011 01:33 PM, Larry Barber wrote:

Yes, I think that is exactly what's happening, but my understanding of
how msgs alerts work is that they are supposed to last for 1/2 hour (by
default) then go away. Having these alerts hang around for hours is
_not_ helpful, if nothing else they mask any new problem messages.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Hi,

    This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so
    please take with a grain of salt.

    If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
    possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the
    logs (has not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so
    it's still in the last 10240 range?

    Tim


    From: Larry Barber [user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
    To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
    Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

    I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was
    triggered over 2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even
    though no new alert-worthy messages have appeared in the message
    log. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0
    server, I'm not sure what the version of the client is since I don't
    have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be a good idea to
    include the Hobbit client version in the client data).

    Thanks,
    Larry Barber

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Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:

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I had gone around adding the mark to the system loggers. It'd be good to
have a better way, but that's the way that one had available when
speaking of Big Brother.

On 02/11/2011 01:33 PM, Larry Barber wrote:

Yes, I think that is exactly what's happening, but my understanding of
how msgs alerts work is that they are supposed to last for 1/2 hour (by
default) then go away. Having these alerts hang around for hours is
_not_ helpful, if nothing else they mask any new problem messages.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Hi,

    This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so
    please take with a grain of salt.

    If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
    possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the
    logs (has not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so
    it's still in the last 10240 range?

    Tim


    From: Larry Barber [user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
    To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
    Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

    I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was
    triggered over 2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even
    though no new alert-worthy messages have appeared in the message
    log. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0
    server, I'm not sure what the version of the client is since I don't
    have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be a good idea to
    include the Hobbit client version in the client data).

    Thanks,
    Larry Barber

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