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Problem converting 32 bit disk-rrd's to 64 bit

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list Hermann-Josef Beckers · Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:33:25 +0200 ·
Hello,

not exactly a hobbit problem, but as I am using rrd only with hobbit:

I am converting my old hobbit/xymon server to a new one  Copying just the data/rrd directory
results in the message "ERROR: This RRD was created on another architecture". So I used "rrdtool dump <file>.rrd > <file>.xml" on the old and "rrdtool restore  <file>.xml <file>.rrd -f" on the new server. Using the "--no-header" option to rrddump makes no difference. No error messages during the restore and no errors when I call the web pages. 
The new disk values in the rrd graphs are only 1/10 of the original size, e. g. a disk which is 82 % filled, shows up with only  8 %.. The text lines generated from the client data are correct. 
Relevant data from the old server:
rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.0.49  Copyright 1997-2004 by Tobias Oetiker <user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a Linux ls0003.kreis-steinfurt.lokal 2.6.8.1-24mdk #1 Fri Jan 14 03:01:00 MST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz unknown GNU/Linux


Relevant data from the new server:
rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.3.4  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a
Linux lscopy02 2.6.27.21-0.1-xen #1 SMP 2009-03-31 14:50:44 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Screenshots of the old/new hobbit/xymon-webpages available on request (2x ~120K pdfs)

Any hints?
Hermann-Josef Beckers
list Alan Sparks · Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:07:14 -0600 ·
quoted from Hermann-Josef Beckers
Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:
Hello,

not exactly a hobbit problem, but as I am using rrd only with hobbit:

I am converting my old hobbit/xymon server to a new one  Copying just
the data/rrd directory
results in the message "ERROR: This RRD was created on another
architecture".
So I used "rrdtool dump <file>.rrd > <file>.xml" on the old
and "rrdtool restore  <file>.xml <file>.rrd -f" on the new server.
Using the "--no-header"
option to rrddump makes no difference. No error messages during the
restore and no
errors when I call the web pages.

The new disk values in the rrd graphs are only 1/10 of the original
size, e. g. a disk which is
82 % filled, shows up with only  8 %.. The text lines generated from
the client data are correct.

Relevant data from the old server:

rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.0.49  Copyright 1997-2004 by Tobias Oetiker <user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a
Linux ls0003.kreis-steinfurt.lokal 2.6.8.1-24mdk #1 Fri Jan 14
03:01:00 MST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz unknown
GNU/Linux


Relevant data from the new server:
rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.3.4  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a
Linux lscopy02 2.6.27.21-0.1-xen #1 SMP 2009-03-31 14:50:44 +0200
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Screenshots of the old/new hobbit/xymon-webpages available on request
(2x ~120K pdfs)

Any hints?
Hermann-Josef Beckers
Can't say I've ever seen this syndrome - but a suggestion - can you
temporarily install a more recent version of rrdtool on the old server
to use for export, so you do not have such a version disparity between
the two systems?  I can't speak to RRDtool 1.3, have only used up to
1.2.27 for Hobbit.
-Alan
list Jim Smith · Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:52:17 -0600 ·
Is it just the disk graphs that are incorrect or is it all graphs?

Jim Smith
quoted from Alan Sparks


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From: Alan Sparks [mailto:user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problem converting 32 bit disk-rrd's to 64 bit

Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:
Hello,

not exactly a hobbit problem, but as I am using rrd only with hobbit:

I am converting my old hobbit/xymon server to a new one  Copying just
the data/rrd directory
results in the message "ERROR: This RRD was created on another
architecture".
So I used "rrdtool dump <file>.rrd > <file>.xml" on the old
and "rrdtool restore  <file>.xml <file>.rrd -f" on the new server.
Using the "--no-header"
option to rrddump makes no difference. No error messages during the
restore and no
errors when I call the web pages.

The new disk values in the rrd graphs are only 1/10 of the original
size, e. g. a disk which is
82 % filled, shows up with only  8 %.. The text lines generated from
the client data are correct.

Relevant data from the old server:

rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.0.49  Copyright 1997-2004 by Tobias Oetiker
<user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a
Linux ls0003.kreis-steinfurt.lokal 2.6.8.1-24mdk #1 Fri Jan 14
03:01:00 MST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz unknown
GNU/Linux


Relevant data from the new server:
rrdtool -v
RRDtool 1.3.4  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <user-645e379b3ab6@xymon.invalid>
...
uname -a
Linux lscopy02 2.6.27.21-0.1-xen #1 SMP 2009-03-31 14:50:44 +0200
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Screenshots of the old/new hobbit/xymon-webpages available on request
(2x ~120K pdfs)

Any hints?
Hermann-Josef Beckers
Can't say I've ever seen this syndrome - but a suggestion - can you
temporarily install a more recent version of rrdtool on the old server
to use for export, so you do not have such a version disparity between
the two systems?  I can't speak to RRDtool 1.3, have only used up to
1.2.27 for Hobbit.
-Alan
list Hermann-Josef Beckers · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:24:02 +0200 ·
Alan Sparks <user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid> schrieb am 14.10.2009 18:07:14:
quoted from Jim Smith

...
Can't say I've ever seen this syndrome - but a suggestion - can you
temporarily install a more recent version of rrdtool on the old server
to use for export, so you do not have such a version disparity between
the two systems?  I can't speak to RRDtool 1.3, have only used up to
1.2.27 for Hobbit.
-Alan
I copied the rrd files to a x86 server with rrdtool 1.2.23. The results 
are 
the same. Using the "--no-header" flag yields zero-sized xml files.

Yours
hjb
list Hermann-Josef Beckers · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:25:00 +0200 ·
"Smith, Jim" <user-dc30f243a817@xymon.invalid> schrieb am 14.10.2009 18:52:17:
quoted from Jim Smith

...
Is it just the disk graphs that are incorrect or is it all graphs?
No, the other graphs have the same problem.

Yours
hjb
list E-mail j.sansford · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:34:09 +0100 ·
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It seems random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts. Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read properly.

Any ideas..is this a known issue? Thanks!
list Jim Smith · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:30:57 -0600 ·
Well, I'm stumped!

 
Jim Smith
quoted from Hermann-Josef Beckers

 
From: Hermann-Josef Beckers [mailto:user-3e5362deca72@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:25 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Problem converting 32 bit
disk-rrd's to 64 bit

 
"Smith, Jim" <user-dc30f243a817@xymon.invalid> schrieb am 14.10.2009
18:52:17:

... 
Is it just the disk graphs that are incorrect or is it all graphs?
No, the other graphs have the same problem. 
Yours hjb
list Ryan Novosielski · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:07:45 -0400 ·
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user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It seems random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts. Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read properly.

Any ideas..is this a known issue? Thanks!

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list Greg Hubbard · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:09 -0500 ·
Ryan, I believe you have posted a message like this on more than one
occasion.  Unless my mail client is misleading me, this was a new message so
it seems to be that it would qualify as a "new thread."

GLH
quoted from Ryan Novosielski

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:
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user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It
seems random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts
have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts.
Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts
which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read
properly.
Any ideas..is this a known issue? Thanks!

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list Alan Sparks · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:26:55 -0600 ·
quoted from Greg Hubbard
user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It seems random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts. Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read properly.
  
What does the test page say?  something like "no tests defined?"  Or
something else?
Have you added appropriate entries for client-local.cfg to cover those
hosts?

Perhaps you need to post relevant portions of your config so we have
more information.
-Alan
list Greg Hubbard · Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:28:40 -0500 ·
Hard to debug this one -- especially since the Xymon "style" is to silently
ignore errors in configuration files.  You say it is "random" but have you
tried to correlate server operating system, etc. with success/failure?  Are
you mixing BBWIN and UNIX agents?

You might pick one "failing" server and check the client log files for clues
(not sure what to tell you to look for).  You might do the "is it plugged
in?" things -- does the log file that you want to check exist, is it
readable by the agent, did the agent recognize the file, was the file
defined properly in the client-local.cfg file on the server, etc.
quoted from Alan Sparks

GLH

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM, <user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It seems
random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts
have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts.
Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts
which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read
properly.

Any ideas..is this a known issue? Thanks!

-- 
Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3) my
advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your
money cheerfully refunded.
list Bruce White · Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:31:14 -0500 ·
I am building a new xymon server and am looking into RRD file
conversions.  My old server is HPUX 11v1 running rrdtool 1.0.45 and my
new server is RedHat AS 5 update 2 running rrdtool 1.2.23.  I just
finished testing the conversion process on four different rrd files
including one for /home and had no issues.   Maybe it is an issue with
the newer version of rrdtool and xymon?

 
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From: Smith, Jim [mailto:user-dc30f243a817@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Problem converting 32 bit
disk-rrd's to 64 bit

 
Well, I'm stumped!

 
Jim Smith

 
From: Hermann-Josef Beckers [mailto:user-3e5362deca72@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:25 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Problem converting 32 bit
disk-rrd's to 64 bit

 
"Smith, Jim" <user-dc30f243a817@xymon.invalid> schrieb am 14.10.2009
18:52:17:

... 
Is it just the disk graphs that are incorrect or is it all graphs?
No, the other graphs have the same problem. 

Yours 
hjb
list Hermann-Josef Beckers · Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:17:47 +0200 ·
"White, Bruce" <user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid> schrieb am 19.10.2009 20:31:14:
quoted from Bruce White

...
I am building a new xymon server and am looking into RRD file conversions.  My old server is HPUX 11v1 running rrdtool 1.0.45 and my new server is RedHat AS 5 update 2 running rrdtool 1.2.23.  I just finished testing the conversion process on four different rrd files including one for /home and had no issues.   Maybe it is an issue with the newer version of rrdtool and xymon?
I don't think so, because new generated values show up correct in the
graphs.

Yours
hjb
list E-mail j.sansford · Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:54:32 +0100 ·
Sorry for taking so long to get back to the list.

I managed to find an inconsistent configuration on one of our servers. Looks like the "client-local.cfg" file wasn't populated correctly. Putting in the name of the file here solved the problem.

Many thanks all,
James.
quoted from Greg Hubbard

---- Greg Hubbard <user-435e16ecfd6a@xymon.invalid> wrote: 
Hard to debug this one -- especially since the Xymon "style" is to silently
ignore errors in configuration files.  You say it is "random" but have you
tried to correlate server operating system, etc. with success/failure?  Are
you mixing BBWIN and UNIX agents?

You might pick one "failing" server and check the client log files for clues
(not sure what to tell you to look for).  You might do the "is it plugged
in?" things -- does the log file that you want to check exist, is it
readable by the agent, did the agent recognize the file, was the file
defined properly in the client-local.cfg file on the server, etc.

GLH

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM, <user-c15424b7e83a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi guys - I'm having a bit of trouble getting this check to work. It seems
random whether it will work for servers or not.

Some have the check working (and show a green status) however other hosts
have the check as clear, so Xymon thinks it isn't defined for those hosts.
Thing is, I have other checks defined in hobbit-clients.cfg for those hosts
which *are* working, which rules out the "HOST=" part not being read
properly.

Any ideas..is this a known issue? Thanks!

-- 
Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3) my
advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your
money cheerfully refunded.