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Disk test getting wrong info

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list Rob Munsch · Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:59:57 -0500 ·
Using hobbit 4.2, i have one host that keeps alternating between yellow 
and green.

 From the commandline on the host, df consistently gets

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             31004488   8095932  22908556  27% /
date.tbb:/home        83883516  70860176  13023340  85% /home
date.tbb:/shared       2097084    333308   1763776  16% /shared

(and df -l omits the latter two of course).  However when the status 
most recently went yellow, i saw on the hobbit status page:

- Filesystems NOT ok

Expected strings (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output

              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4150856    2530912    1619944          0      36424     426328
-/+ buffers/cache:    2068160    2082696
Swap:      2097136     434284    1662852

Which looks a lot like memory info to me!
The last time it went yellow i saw a bunch of network interface stats.

I don't know how but every few checks the client seems to run the wrong 
test for disk - or at least the wrong data is making it over in place of 
df info.  Anyone ever see this happen or know how it could..?

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Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT
www.solutionsforprogress.com
list Charles Goyard · Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:08:32 +0100 ·
quoted from Rob Munsch
Rob Munsch wrote :
Using hobbit 4.2, i have one host that keeps alternating between yellow 
and green.
You may have a host on your network that advertises under the wrong
hostname. Check the "Status message received from xx.yy.zz.aa" line in
the web page, and see if it's the same on green and yellow conditions.

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Charles Goyard - user-98f9625a7a59@xymon.invalid - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
list Rob Munsch · Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:30:48 -0500 ·
quoted from Charles Goyard
Charles Goyard wrote:
Rob Munsch wrote :
Using hobbit 4.2, i have one host that keeps alternating between yellow 
and green.
You may have a host on your network that advertises under the wrong
hostname. Check the "Status message received from xx.yy.zz.aa" line in
the web page, and see if it's the same on green and yellow conditions.
That's an exciting thought.  Of course, it has now remained green for 
over an hour, but i'll check on it next time it spazzes out on me, thanks.

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Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT
www.solutionsforprogress.com
list Lars Ebeling · Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:00:48 +0100 ·
If you have two clients running on the host there will be a mess in the 
clientdata. So check if there are two clients running.

Lars
quoted from Rob Munsch


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Munsch" <user-f39e4aae1456@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: [hobbit] Disk test getting wrong info

Using hobbit 4.2, i have one host that keeps alternating between yellow 
and green.

From the commandline on the host, df consistently gets

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             31004488   8095932  22908556  27% /
date.tbb:/home        83883516  70860176  13023340  85% /home
date.tbb:/shared       2097084    333308   1763776  16% /shared

(and df -l omits the latter two of course).  However when the status most 
recently went yellow, i saw on the hobbit status page:

- Filesystems NOT ok

Expected strings (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4150856    2530912    1619944          0      36424     426328
-/+ buffers/cache:    2068160    2082696
Swap:      2097136     434284    1662852

Which looks a lot like memory info to me!
The last time it went yellow i saw a bunch of network interface stats.

I don't know how but every few checks the client seems to run the wrong 
test for disk - or at least the wrong data is making it over in place of 
df info.  Anyone ever see this happen or know how it could..?

-- 
Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT
www.solutionsforprogress.com