[smokeping-users] Re: loss of graphing

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Stefan Michel wrote:

> Hi Ron!
>
> 11.03.2003 23:15:24, "Ron E. Jager" <rjager at andrewandsons.com> wrote:
>
> >i've mentioned this issue b/f in the past and now i seem to have pinpointed
> >the problem.  when running smokeping against all our nodes, if we get a
> >sudden loss i will get a match for "lossdetect" as a notification in my
> >email but then it shuts down the graphing completely.  i have to restart the
> >smokeping daemon to get the graphing back.
> >-ron
>
> Same here. I disabled email notification completely, else I would lose data
> from the point of notification until I restarted the daemon. This issue is
> reproducible and leaves no traces in logfiles whatsoever. Strange behavior:
> if (let's say) 3 machines on a certain network produce a lossdetect warning,
> I might even get three emails (if this happens quite at the same time), so
> the daemon does not die after sending the *first* email, it seems to die
> shortly after reporting that incident...

Dear Ron and Stefan,

I just had a quick look over the code, I can not fathom why this
should be ... I am using the Alert mechanism here in my
installation and it works nice without any deaths ... I am running
with Solaris and perl 5.6.1

cheers
tobi

> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> (System is a RH Linux box with a permanent internet connection and postfix)
>
>
>
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