Re: [Devmon] Solution for the purple issue?

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

On Friday 09 January 2009 14:43:37 Thomas Kähn wrote:
> 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.

Did you add the patch? Has it improved matters?

Regards,
Buchan