Re: [Devmon] "devmon tests go purple" issue

[Nathan H. <na...@ma...>]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:48 +0100, "xbgmsharp" <xbg...@gm...>
said:
> 
> > Short summary:  If any single oid fails to retrieve then devmon stops
> > collecting the rest of the oids in the template.
> >
> > I've confirmed this hypothesis with with -f -p -vvvvvvvvvvv. Devmon
> > says something about "too many failures" and "skipping device".
> > Perhaps devmon should only skip that single column and still test the
> > others.
> 
> 
> In the code,  when 2 tests fails it stop chec the device and send a  
> clear status.
> 
> in modules/dm_snmp.pm
> 
>    535        # We dont want to do every table if we are failing alot of
>    walks
>    536         if($failed_query > 2) {
>    537           my $error_str =
>    538             "Failed too many queries on $dev, aborting query";
>    539           $data_out{'error'}{$error_str} = 1;
>    540           send_data($sock, \%data_out);
>    541           $session->close();
>    542           next DEVICE;
>    543         }
> 
> 
> I have the same problem with memory on my pix.
> 
> But it never made the test go purple.

The interesting thing is it makes _other_ tests go purple.

My guess is that because it aborts the device query it doesn't send any
message for subsequent tests on that device, not even clear messages. So
after an hour the other tests go purple.