[smokeping-users] nomasterpoll blocks results from slaves

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:33:38PM -0400, David Behr wrote:

> A curious problem.  I have some probes that are set to only run on slaves.
> E.g. myProbe might be set to run on slave1 and slave2.  I used
> nomasterpoll=yes on the master to block the master from trying to run the
> probe.

> All appears to work fine.  The slaves get the config, they run the probes,
> they generate results and upload to the master.  The data sits in the
> smokeping directory in the slave_cache files.  BUT the master process
> ignores the data - i.e. it just sits in the slave_cache file and keeps
> growing.

> Is there a better way to make this work?  I have a feeling the problem is if
> the probe is "skipped" on the master,  then that "probe process" never gets
> to read in the slave data.    Is this by design?

No, I think it's a bug, and I think I fixed it in the development
version. You might want to try the snapshot at

 http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/trunk/

If you do, please report back.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko