[sysmon-help] What am I doing wrong ?

[Mark Pace Balzan]

Hi Noel,

Thanks for your email. 

In my config, 10.0.0.215 is the IP of my sysmon box. I used the IP and
hostname rather than 127.0.0.1 and localhost, but I guess it doesn't
harm to try

I setup all dependencies on the sysmon box in the current config in an
effort to isolate the issue. I had a larger hierarchy before, with a
much larger number of objects, but the problem persists even with the
simplest config.

The log file doesn't point to anything wrong:

Dec 21 2006-09:06:05 : Starting sysmon v0.93-pre3
Dec 21 2006-09:06:05 : sysmond: INFO: hold queue set to 480000 for icmp
packets
Dec 21 2006-09:06:05 : sysmond: INFO: hold queue set to 202500 for
icmpv6 packets
Dec 21 2006-09:21:08 : dnscache - 18 hit 7 miss 0 exp 7 count entr 7 est
entries
Dec 21 2006-09:36:09 : dnscache - 36 hit 7 miss 0 exp 7 count entr 7 est
entries



Thanks


Mark

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Kelly [mailto:nkelly at citrusnetworks.net] 
> Sent: 21 December 2006 09:36
> To: Mark Pace Balzan
> Cc: sysmon-help at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [sysmon-help] What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I am no expert but it looks to me like your root dependency is not up 
> and so nothing else will be checked.
> 
> Can you ping 10.0.0.215 from the command line?  What I do is make my 
> root dependency localhost 127.0.0.1 to ensure that networking 
> is up and 
> available.  So you could do that and then make 'internal' a 
> dependency 
> on that and the other dependencies on 'internal' (as you have).
> 
> What does the log file say when you start sysmond?
> 
> HTH
> Noel
> 
> Mark Pace Balzan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > 
> > Im having a hard time getting sysmon to work in a reliable fashion,
> > although it looks like other have had success.
> > 
> > Sysmon seems to be reporting a number of devices as not 
> reachable via
> > ping, when they really are up. 
> > 
> > Ive stripped down my config to rather basic now, but still 
> cant figure
> > out why this is happening.
> > 
> > Below is the output text file (I chose textfile output not 
> html in the
> > config), as well as the relevant config file options
> > 
> > 
> > Hopefully someone can shed some light
> > 
> > OS: FreeBSD tantalum.melitacable.com 5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 
> 5.5-RELEASE #0:
> > Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Network Summary     sysmon v0.93-pre3
> > Hostname             Type  Port DownN UpN   NotifiedStat    
>        Time
> > Failed
> > 10.0.0.215           ping  0    0    43    No    up         
>     Dec 20
> > 20:42:39
> > 10.0.0.212           ping  0    0    18    No    up         
>     Dec 20
> > 22:50:29
> > 10.0.0.99            ping  0    0    18    No    up         
>     Dec 20
> > 22:50:29
> > 10.0.0.197           ping  0    0    18    No    up         
>     Dec 20
> > 22:50:29
> > 10.0.0.213           ping  0    0    18    No    up         
>     Dec 20
> > 22:50:29
> > 
> > 
> > Config:
> > 
> > root = "internal";
> > ;
> > #
> > # Comments can look like this
> > ; or this
> > 
> > # create a file for web page users
> > config statusfile text "/usr/local/share/serversstatus3.txt";
> > #
> > # show up and down for hosts/services
> > config showupalso;
> > #
> > # Log devices that are up/down
> > config logging file "/var/log/sysmon-servers3.log";
> > #
> > # Configure an authentication key -- Default is none
> > #config authkey "Debug";
> > #
> > # Set the sender to be sysmon at localhost
> > config sender "sysmon";
> > #
> > # Expire in-process dns cache this often
> > config dnsexpire 7200;
> > #
> > # Do not queue more than this many objects to be checked at once
> > config maxqueued 50;
> > #
> > # service frequency
> > config queuetime 300;
> > #
> > # how many times host is found down before email or sms is sent
> > config numfailures 2;
> > #
> > # send reminder email/sms for event ... value in minutes
> > config pageinterval 10;
> > 
> > # Not implemented yet
> > #config snmp-trap;              # catch snmp-traps
> > 
> > object internal {
> >         ip "10.0.0.215";
> >         type ping;
> >         desc "internal";
> > };
> > 
> > object srvneon {
> >         ip "10.0.0.212";
> >         type ping;
> >         desc "srvneon";
> >         dep "internal";
> > };
> > 
> > Same for other objects
> > 
> > 
> > 
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