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ifstat.mac.rrd question

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list Robert P McGraw · Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:46:34 -0500 ·
I am getting this error message in my rrd-data.log about every minute. I looked in the archive about this and only found one entry that did not provide much help. 

Also in the trends in the network traffic graph I see an interface named "mac".

2010-02-15 08:41:35 RRD error updating /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from 128.210.3.205: /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1266241295 when last update time is 1266241295 (minimum one second step)

QUESTION:

1) what is the "mac" interface?

2) what is causing the above error and how can I prevent this?

Thanks

Robert

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list Richard Finegold · Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:31:59 -0800 ·
quoted from Robert P McGraw
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:46, McGraw, Robert P <user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am getting this error message in my rrd-data.log about every minute. I looked in the archive about this and only found one entry that did not provide much help.

Also in the trends in the network traffic graph I see an interface named "mac".

2010-02-15 08:41:35 RRD error updating /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from 128.210.3.205: /local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1266241295 when last update time is 1266241295 (minimum one second step)

1) what is the "mac" interface?
2) what is causing the above error and how can I prevent this?
If 128.210.3.205 is gauss then try running "ifconfig" (or equivalent)
on it, see what it says, see if "mac" is listed more than once. Are
there other ifstat rrds for gauss, or other hosts with the same OS?
list Tom L. Stewart · Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:03:34 -0600 ·
We see the same item on some of the Solaris boxes. We did the following
to fix it.

In the client/bin directory on the client.

Change hobbitclient-sunos.sh

/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|grep -v wrsmd | sort

To 

/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|egrep -v 'wrsmd|mac' | sort


You may not even have the grep within the line to remove the wrsmd.

If this is not on a Solaris system, you will need to look at the
appropriate client file in the same directory.

You may also want to go into the rrd host directory and remove the
ifstat.mac.rrd file.

Tom
quoted from Richard Finegold

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Finegold [mailto:user-6a016aac278a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:32 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] ifstat.mac.rrd question

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:46, McGraw, Robert P <user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I am getting this error message in my rrd-data.log about every minute.
I looked in the archive about this and only found one entry that did not
provide much help.
Also in the trends in the network traffic graph I see an interface
named "mac".

2010-02-15 08:41:35 RRD error updating
/local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from
128.210.3.205:
/local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd: illegal
attempt to update using time 1266241295 when last update time is
1266241295 (minimum one second step)
1) what is the "mac" interface?
2) what is causing the above error and how can I prevent this?
If 128.210.3.205 is gauss then try running "ifconfig" (or equivalent)
on it, see what it says, see if "mac" is listed more than once. Are
there other ifstat rrds for gauss, or other hosts with the same OS?
list Robert P McGraw · Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:22:31 -0500 ·
This was the solution.

Thanks for your help.

Robert
quoted from Tom L. Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart, Tom L. [mailto:user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:04 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] ifstat.mac.rrd question


We see the same item on some of the Solaris boxes. We did the following
to fix it.

In the client/bin directory on the client.

Change hobbitclient-sunos.sh

/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|grep -v wrsmd | sort

To

/usr/bin/kstat -p -s '[or]bytes64'|egrep -v 'wrsmd|mac' | sort


You may not even have the grep within the line to remove the wrsmd.

If this is not on a Solaris system, you will need to look at the
appropriate client file in the same directory.

You may also want to go into the rrd host directory and remove the
ifstat.mac.rrd file.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Finegold [mailto:user-6a016aac278a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:32 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] ifstat.mac.rrd question

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:46, McGraw, Robert P <user-33cf07af04dd@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I am getting this error message in my rrd-data.log about every
minute.
I looked in the archive about this and only found one entry that did
not
provide much help.
Also in the trends in the network traffic graph I see an interface
named "mac".

2010-02-15 08:41:35 RRD error updating
/local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from
128.210.3.205:
/local/xymon/data/rrd/gauss.math.purdue.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd: illegal
attempt to update using time 1266241295 when last update time is
1266241295 (minimum one second step)
1) what is the "mac" interface?
2) what is causing the above error and how can I prevent this?
If 128.210.3.205 is gauss then try running "ifconfig" (or equivalent)
on it, see what it says, see if "mac" is listed more than once. Are
there other ifstat rrds for gauss, or other hosts with the same OS?