Re: [Devmon] Solution for the purple issue?

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

Hi Buchan,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:07:40PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 14:43:37 Thomas Kähn wrote:
> > > > [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?

yes, I've applied it to a couple of servers. All of them - still running in
debug mode - didn't turn purple until now.

So this might have been the solution to the problem. 

Best regards
Thomas
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