Re: [Devmon] [hobbit] RE: Devmon Turning Purple

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

Right, with the limited time I have available right now, I don't see me being 
able to resolve the issues relating to the handling of the don't fragment bit 
on large SNMP replies (and it has most likely existed from the first devmon 
release).

So, since the biggest issue preventing a 0.3.0 release seems to be fixed, can 
I have a show of hands about releasing current svn as 0.3.0 final ? I would 
prefer answers as soon as possible (taking into account the Mandriva 2008.1 
release is within days and I wouldn't mind having working devmon+graphs 
out-the-box on it).

The outstanding issues I would try and resolve in upcoming point releases 
(e.g. 0.3.1).

Regards,
Buchan


On Monday 31 March 2008 17:00:37 Taylor Lewick wrote:
> Oops, that would be about 7 days solid since Buchan released the patch
> on the 25th...  I think for the previous two days I had set my cronjob
> to restart devmon every hour, so I hadn't seen it go purple...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Taylor Lewick
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:47 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] [hobbit] RE: Devmon Turning Purple
>
> I had a similar setup, and since applying the patch and removing my cron
> job I haven't seen devmon go purple, its been up for about 9 days solid,
> so its working for me.  Before that is was going purple at least once
> every 2 days even with a cronjob to restart it every 4 hours...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Whilding, Craig
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:37 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] [hobbit] RE: Devmon Turning Purple
>
> Apologies for not getting back to you about this sooner, I was off work
> last week.
>
> I have now applied the patched files on our server and removed the cron
> job that restarted devmon. I will let you know if I have any more
> problems or if this has fixed it.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bg...@st...]
> Sent: 25 March 2008 09:34
> To: dev...@li...
> Cc: Whilding, Craig
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] [hobbit] RE: Devmon Turning Purple
>
> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:41:05 Whilding, Craig wrote:
> > I've discovered something with this purple problem. If the module that
> > parses hobbit client data isn't running then devmon seems to remain
> > fine.
> >
> > Basically on one of our servers that runs a proxy sending data to
> > localhost and our main server one of the modules has died so that no
> > linux client data gets to the local display. Haven't quite worked out
> > what will have died yet as I need to run a diff with another box to
> > check the dead channel but whatever it was it seems to be the service
> > that devmon disagreed with.
> >
> > Any progress on debugging what devmon code causes the problem in the
> > first place? I can leave this broken for now on mine as the local
> > display is only a backup if the wan link fails.
>
> I managed to reproduce the issue, and I think it is fixed with this
> commit:
>
> http://devmon.svn.sourceforge.net/devmon/?rev=82&view=rev
>
> I will test it in production (but I see this issue about once in two
> weeks in
> our production environment) this week.
>
> I reproduced it by stopping hobbit after devmon had sent at least one
> status
> message (i.e. start devmon while hobbit is running), then stopping
> hobbitit
> before the next attempt to send a status message. devmon would hang, and
> log
> nothing more to the log. With the fix available in the patch from the
> url
> above, it will continue logging and running.
>
> I have also fixed the "don't poll a device hobbit thinks is down"
> feature. If
> there aren't any more serious issues to resolve, I think another release
> is
> in order ... maybe 0.3.0 final.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
>