proc/port error messages error messages

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list Adam Scheblein · Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:27:14 -0500 ·

Greetings,

 
Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my hobbitd
section about my proc column for one of my hosts:

 
Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399, limit
524288)
First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux
Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports truncated
(n=514197, limit=262144)

 
Any thoughts??

 
Thanks,

Adam

list Iain M Conochie · Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:49:42 +0100 (BST) ·

▸ quoted from Adam Scheblein

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Scheblein, Adam wrote:

Greetings,


Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my hobbitd
section about my proc column for one of my hosts:


Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399, limit
524288)
First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux
Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports truncated
(n=514197, limit=262144)

Yes - this is due to the client sending status messages that are too large for the server to accept. The default limit for status messages is 256K and clients is 512K; both are not large enough.

You can control this setting by adding values for

MAXMSG_CLIENT
MAXMSG_STATUS

into the hobbitserver.cfg config file. In my config I have

MAXMSG_CLIENT="2097152"
MAXMSG_STATUS="2097152"

This may be too large for you though so you should perhaps try smaller values first

Cheers

Iain

Any thoughts??


Thanks,

Adam

Iain Conochie
UNIX Systems Administrator

list Adam Scheblein · Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:52:33 -0500 ·

Wonderful -- exactly what I was looking for

THANKS!!

Adam

▸ quoted from Iain M Conochie

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain M Conochie [mailto:user-c784e16a5170@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:50 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] proc/port error messages error messages

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Scheblein, Adam wrote:

Greetings,


Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my hobbitd
section about my proc column for one of my hosts:


Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399, limit
524288)
First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux
Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports truncated
(n=514197, limit=262144)

Yes - this is due to the client sending status messages that are too large
for the server to accept. The default limit for status messages is 256K
and clients is 512K; both are not large enough.

You can control this setting by adding values for

MAXMSG_CLIENT
MAXMSG_STATUS

into the hobbitserver.cfg config file. In my config I have

MAXMSG_CLIENT="2097152"
MAXMSG_STATUS="2097152"

This may be too large for you though so you should perhaps try smaller
values first

Cheers

Iain

Any thoughts??


Thanks,

Adam

Iain Conochie
UNIX Systems Administrator

list Greg L Hubbard · Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:57:15 -0500 ·

I think that this means that your Hobbit client sent more data than the
Hobbit server was configured to accept.  You need to look at the data
sent by this client and decide if that amount of data is normal.  If so,
then you need to change the Hobbit server configuration so it will
accept more data from clients.  Several of the tests have a link to
"client data available" so you can see the message.  There is also a CGI
you can run to get the last client dump, but I forget what it is.
 
When I had this problem, I was getting very long host routing tables
from AIX agents.  Some crucial information was getting lost that
appeared later in the client message, and this was causing false alarms
to trigger.  Since the routing table information did not appear to be
used, I just disabled the "netstat -nr" test.  Someday I may turn it
back on and go modify the hobbitd configuration to allow more data --
and I will be "correct."
 
GLH

▸ quoted from Adam Scheblein



	From: Scheblein, Adam [mailto:user-de8d51f0c651@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:27 AM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: [hobbit] proc/port error messages error messages
	
	
	Greetings,

	 
	Recently I have been getting the following error messages in my
hobbitd section about my proc column for one of my hosts:

	 
	Oversize data/client msg from [IP Address] truncated (n=760399,
limit 524288)
	First line: [Hostname]|hp-ux|hp-ux
	Oversize status msg from [IP Address] for [Hostname]:ports
truncated (n=514197, limit=262144)

	 
	Any thoughts??

	 
	Thanks,

	Adam

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