Re: [Devmon] Solution for the purple issue?

[Thomas K. <tk...@we...>]

Hi Buchan,

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:17:22PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > one of our devmon servers turned purple this morning. It stopped here:
> >
> > [09-01-09@07:24:36] DEBUG TEMPLATES: running post_template_load()
> > [09-01-09@07:24:36] DEBUG CFG: running read_hosts
> > [09-01-09@07:24:36] DEBUG SNMP: running poll_devices()
> > [09-01-09@07:24:36] Starting snmp queries
> > [09-01-09@07:24:36] Getting device status from hobbit at xx.xx.xx.xx:1984
> >
> > It is possible, that this system couldn't reach the hobbit server
> > at that time. However it didn't recover from this status.
> 
> Hmm, try as I might I can't get hobbitd to die between  "my $sock = 
> IO::Socket::INET->new" (or "if(defined $sock)" ) and while(<$sock>).
> 
> However, simply adding a timeout to the socket may be enough to fix this, can 
> you try with this patch ?

I've added this patch to our devmon servers. Let's see what happens.

Best regards
Thomas
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