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Occasional RRD error message

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list Chris Morris · Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:03:07 -0000 ·
Since upgrading to xymon 4.3.5, I occasionally see this message in the
rrd-status.log :-

2011-11-10 00:45:53 Whoops ! Failed to send message (select(2) failed)
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  Select failure while sending to Xymon
daemon at x.x.x.x:1984
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  Recipient 'x.x.x.x', timeout 15
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
2011-11-10 00:45:53 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 6
2011-11-10 00:45:53 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load

What is the problem here?

Regards,
Chris Morris


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list Chris Morris · Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:55:36 -0000 ·
Sent this to the list last Thursday but it hasn't appeared ...
quoted from Chris Morris

Since upgrading to xymon 4.3.5, I occasionally see this message in the
rrd-status.log :-

2011-11-10 00:45:53 Whoops ! Failed to send message (select(2) failed)
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  Select failure while sending to Xymon
daemon at x.x.x.x:1984
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  Recipient 'x.x.x.x', timeout 15
2011-11-10 00:45:53 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
2011-11-10 00:45:53 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 6
2011-11-10 00:45:53 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load

What is the problem here?

Regards,
Chris Morris


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list Jeremy Laidman · Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:24:06 +1100 ·
Chris, I saw your post last week. Sometimes I don't see my own posts in
Gmail until someone replies.

I dunno what the problem is, I'm on an older version. I'm guessing xymond
is getting busy with something else and can't respond within 15 seconds.
Anything in xymond log?
list Chris Morris · Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:55:31 -0000 ·
Nothing in any other logs to assist.
quoted from Jeremy Laidman


	From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid] 	Sent: 14 November 2011 19:24
	To: Morris, Chris (SS-IS)
	Cc: xymon at xymon.com
	Subject: Re: [Xymon] Occasional RRD error message
	
	
	Chris, I saw your post last week. Sometimes I don't see my own
posts in Gmail until someone replies.

	I dunno what the problem is, I'm on an older version. I'm
guessing xymond is getting busy with something else and can't respond
within 15 seconds.  Anything in xymond log?
	

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list Jeremy Laidman · Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:10:55 +1100 ·
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM,  <user-e510f6c03e57@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Nothing in any other logs to assist.
First of all, I don't believe this is likely to cause faults.  As I
understand it, if the config file can't be retrieved from xymond, it
will be fetched directly (from the filesystem) instead.

How often are you seeing the message?

What do you get if you run this:
  xymon 127.0.0.1 'config hosts.cfg'

You should get xymond's idea of the hosts.cfg file.  I'm wondering if
xymond is working hard at times, and the timeout is a tad too short in
such cases.  Perhaps check your CPU usage at the times you see
failures (eg using sar).

You could try enabling "--debug" mode in tasks.cfg on the
xymond_channel entry that runs xymond_rrd, and/or on the xymond_rrd
worker module, and see if anything interesting comes out.

Cheers
Jeremy
list Chris Morris · Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:50:35 -0000 ·
Not a problem just a question really. 

It has happened 6 times since 8th October at different times during the
day.

Xymon 127.0.0.1 'config hosts.cfg' produces expected results. System
doesn't seem overly busy at the times this occurs.

Thanks.
quoted from Jeremy Laidman

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 15 November 2011 23:11
To: Morris, Chris (SS-IS)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Occasional RRD error message

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM,  <user-e510f6c03e57@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Nothing in any other logs to assist.
First of all, I don't believe this is likely to cause faults.  As I
understand it, if the config file can't be retrieved from xymond, it
will be fetched directly (from the filesystem) instead.

How often are you seeing the message?

What do you get if you run this:
  xymon 127.0.0.1 'config hosts.cfg'

You should get xymond's idea of the hosts.cfg file.  I'm wondering if
xymond is working hard at times, and the timeout is a tad too short in
such cases.  Perhaps check your CPU usage at the times you see failures
(eg using sar).

You could try enabling "--debug" mode in tasks.cfg on the xymond_channel
entry that runs xymond_rrd, and/or on the xymond_rrd worker module, and
see if anything interesting comes out.

Cheers
Jeremy

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