Re: [Devmon] devmon 0.3.1-beta1 goes purple, error message

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

On Monday, 29 November 2010 18:06:06 Taylor Lewick wrote:
> I just ran the SVN version, and everything I was testing with devmon now
> just remains purple.

Depending on how you start devmon, where your devmon.cfg file is etc., you may 
need to specify the path to your devmon configuration file (-c option) and the 
'hosts.db' file (-d option)

> Looks like the SNMP tests aren't actually being run,
> I never see any SNMP oids in the devmon.log file now.
> 
> I see this...
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 1 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 2 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 3 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 4 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 5 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 6 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 7 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 8 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 9 timed out waiting for data from parent: Timeout
> at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.
> [10-11-29@10:52:19] Fork 10 timed out waiting for data from parent:
> Timeout at /usr/local/devmon-svn-20101129/modules/dm_snmp.pm line 516.

There shouldn't be time-outs, even if you aren't polling any devices, as the 
master should "ping" each poller if it hasn't heard from it. Can you provide 
the options you used to start devmon? You may want to try with -f and -v or -
vv or -vvv or -vvvv.

Hmm, you should at least see something like this for every poll period:

[10-11-29@22:05:02] DEBUG TEMPLATES: running read_templates()
[10-11-29@22:05:02] DEBUG TEMPLATES: running post_template_load()
[10-11-29@22:05:02] DEBUG SNMP: running poll_devices()

> And I see one of each of the messages below for all 10 PIDs regarding
> cycletime on the dm page for the xymon host...

I'm running mine from a clean checkout, on a system that can normally run from 
Xymon and devmon RPMs for Mandriva, as follows:

# su - devmon -s /bin/bash -c '/usr/lib64/xymon/client/bin/bbcmd 
/home/bgmilne/Download/source/svn/sf/devmon-clean-trunk/devmon -vvvv -f --
debug'

(or without -f if I want it to log to the log file, fewer v's etc.)

Regards,
Buchan