Plagued by purple

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list David Mills · Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:25:35 +0000 ·

All -

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself as having about half its tests as "purple", the other half as green. As far as I can tell, everything's running just fine. It seems to be a simple data refresh problem of some sort, but haven't been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK, except for the following list of "missing" tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat  iostat2         mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd     conn    cpu     disk    http    info    memory   msgs  ntp      ports   procs   ssh  trends

I've restarted the server: ("$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart") and tried to find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david


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Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
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list Josh Luthman · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:52:00 -0400 ·

Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

▸ quoted from David Mills

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 All –

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I
missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself
as having about half its tests as “purple”, the other half as green. As far
as I can tell, everything’s running just fine. It seems to be a simple data
refresh problem of some sort, but haven’t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK,
except for the following list of “missing” tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info     memory   msgs
ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I’ve restarted the server: (“$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart”) and tried to
find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*David Mills*
Systems Administrator
*Northrop Grumman*
XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid

list David Mills · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:48:46 +0000 ·

Josh Luthman user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid <mailto:xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BXymon%5D%20Plagued%20by%20purple&In-Reply-To=user-227d6358e221@xymon.invalid%3E>

▸ quoted from Josh Luthman


Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of those options is my likely culprit?

Also, don't quite follow your comment about your "raid script". What raid script?

Sorry!

David

▸ quoted from Josh Luthman

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 All .

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I
missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself
as having about half its tests as .purple., the other half as green. As far
as I can tell, everything.s running just fine. It seems to be a simple data
refresh problem of some sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK,
except for the following list of .missing. tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info     memory   msgs
ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and tried to
find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid

list Benjamin P. August · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:53:26 -0700 (PDT) ·

It looks like the green tests are all standard Xymon tests and the purple ones might be external scripts in client/ext/ in the Xymon (or Hobbit) home directory. Check the client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg on any of the purple-plagued clients and see if any of the purple tests are mentioned. 
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From: "David Mills (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid> To: xymon at xymon.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:48:46 AM Subject: Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple

Josh Luthman user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid

▸ quoted from David Mills

Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the data. 
The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of those options is my likely culprit? 
Also, don’t quite follow your comment about your “raid script”. What raid script? 
Sorry! 
David

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid> wrote:

All . 
Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I missed it. 
I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself as having about half its tests as .purple., the other half as green. As far as I can tell, everything.s running just fine. It seems to be a simple data refresh problem of some sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch. 
The problem started after a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK, except for the following list of .missing. tests: 
Purple Tests: iostat iostat2 mem2 meta nfs prtdiag raid sar tm zones 
Green Tests: bbd conn cpu disk http info memory msgs ntp ports procs ssh trends 
I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and tried to find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough. 
Help? 
Thanks! 
david

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list Josh Luthman · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:09:19 -0400 ·

Can you provide a screenshot of your bb.html (front page)?

You have a raid column that is going purple.  The "raid script" I use to
make the raid column was taken from Deadcat ages ago.  Assuming you have
the same script, the data is collected on the client and I believe the
status is processed on the server.

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mills, David (IS) <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>wrote:

*Josh Luthman* *user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid *<xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BXymon%5D%20Plagued%20by%20purple&In-Reply-To=user-227d6358e221@xymon.invalid%3E>

▸ quoted from Benjamin P. August


Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the
data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of
those options is my likely culprit?

Also, don’t quite follow your comment about your “raid script”. What raid
script?

Sorry!

David

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

 All .

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere
and I
missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself
as having about half its tests as .purple., the other half as green. As
far
as I can tell, everything.s running just fine. It seems to be a simple
data
refresh problem of some sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up

OK,

except for the following list of .missing. tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info     memory   msgs
ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and tried to
find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast
enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*David Mills*
Systems Administrator
*Northrop Grumman*
XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid

list James Wade · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:20:32 -0500 ·

I was one of the original installers of this installation. In this case, we
modified scripts and ran the client separately from $XYMONHOME/client

Start the client by changing to the $XYMONHOME/client directory and
running, runclient.sh start

That should resolve your issue.

James

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Benjamin P. August

▸ quoted from Josh Luthman

<user-e992dd5eb2a5@xymon.invalid>wrote:

It looks like the green tests are all standard Xymon tests and the purple
ones might be external scripts in client/ext/ in the Xymon (or Hobbit) home
directory.
Check the client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg on any of the purple-plagued clients
and see if any of the purple tests are mentioned.

*From: *"David Mills (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>
*To: *xymon at xymon.com
*Sent: *Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:48:46 AM
*Subject: *Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple

*Josh Luthman* *user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid *<xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BXymon%5D%20Plagued%20by%20purple&In-Reply-To=user-227d6358e221@xymon.invalid%3E>

Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the
data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of
those options is my likely culprit?

Also, don’t quite follow your comment about your “raid script”. What raid
script?

Sorry!

David

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

 All .

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere
and I
missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself
as having about half its tests as .purple., the other half as green. As
far
as I can tell, everything.s running just fine. It seems to be a simple
data
refresh problem of some sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up

OK,

except for the following list of .missing. tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info     memory   msgs
ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and tried to
find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast
enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*David Mills*
Systems Administrator
*Northrop Grumman*
XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid

list Ryan Novosielski · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:51:54 -0400 ·

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How about that -- historical knowledge from a mailing list!

▸ quoted from James Wade


On 10/16/2012 01:43 PM, James Wade wrote:

I was one of the original installers of this installation. In this
case, we modified scripts and ran the client separately from
$XYMONHOME/client

Start the client by changing to the $XYMONHOME/client directory
and running, runclient.sh start

That should resolve your issue.

James

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Benjamin P. August <user-e992dd5eb2a5@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-e992dd5eb2a5@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

It looks like the green tests are all standard Xymon tests and the purple ones might be external scripts in client/ext/ in the Xymon (or Hobbit) home directory. Check the client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
on any of the purple-plagued clients and see if any of the purple
tests are mentioned.

*From: *"David Mills (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid

<mailto:user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>> *To: *xymon at xymon.com
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:48:46
AM *Subject: *Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple

*Josh Luthman* user-107cd28343dd@xymon.invalid _

▸ quoted from James Wade

Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't
sending the data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of those options is my likely culprit?

Also, don’t quite follow your comment about your “raid script”.
What raid script?

Sorry!

David

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <David.Mills at

▸ quoted from James Wade

ngc.com <http://ngc.com>>; wrote:

All .

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented
somewhere and I missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which
shows itself as having about half its tests as .purple., the
other half as green. As far as I can tell, everything.s running
just fine. It seems to be a simple data refresh problem of some
sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything
came up OK, except for the following list of .missing. tests:

Purple Tests: iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid
sar  tm  zones

Green Tests: bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info
memory   msgs ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and
tried to find something in the logs, but am not making ground
on this fast enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david

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list David Mills · Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:56:20 +0000 ·

Thanks, James. That did solve the problem.

Just so I know, what script did you modify so that the client does not start up automatically on boot, and also, what file(s?) would I check to confirm that the client collection was not running if I should run across this again on a different host?

Thanks again...

david

▸ quoted from James Wade

From: user-a3657aa747eb@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-a3657aa747eb@xymon.invalid] On Behalf Of James Wade
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:21 PM
To: Mills, David (IS)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com; Benjamin P. August
Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple

I was one of the original installers of this installation. In this case, we modified scripts and ran the client separately from $XYMONHOME/client

Start the client by changing to the $XYMONHOME/client directory and running, runclient.sh start

That should resolve your issue.

James
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Benjamin P. August <user-e992dd5eb2a5@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-e992dd5eb2a5@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
It looks like the green tests are all standard Xymon tests and the purple ones might be external scripts in client/ext/ in the Xymon (or Hobbit) home directory.
Check the client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg on any of the purple-plagued clients and see if any of the purple tests are mentioned.
From: "David Mills (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid>>
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:48:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Plagued by purple

Josh Luthman user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid <mailto:xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BXymon%5D%20Plagued%20by%20purple&In-Reply-To=user-227d6358e221@xymon.invalid%3E>

Either the server isn't gathering it or the clients aren't sending the data.

The raid script that I have is sent by the client.

Thanks, Josh, but can you point out where I can check to see which of those options is my likely culprit?

Also, don't quite follow your comment about your "raid script". What raid script?

Sorry!

David

On Oct 16, 2012 2:08 AM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid<http://ngc.com>>; wrote:

 All .

Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I
missed it.

I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself
as having about half its tests as .purple., the other half as green. As far
as I can tell, everything.s running just fine. It seems to be a simple data
refresh problem of some sort, but haven.t been able prove my hunch.

The problem started after  a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK,
except for the following list of .missing. tests:

Purple Tests:
iostat   iostat2  mem2 meta  nfs  prtdiag   raid  sar  tm  zones

Green Tests:
bbd      conn     cpu      disk     http     info     memory   msgs
ntp       ports    procs   ssh  trends

I.ve restarted the server: (.$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart.) and tried to
find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough.

Help?

Thanks!

david

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman


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