[smokeping-users] nomasterpoll blocks results from slaves

[Chandler, Mel]

Tobi,

When do you expect the next major release?  2.3.4, etc... 

Chandler Bing

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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:57 AM
To: David Behr
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Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] nomasterpoll blocks results from slaves

Hi David,

I think we have fixed this in trunk ... will publish a new version later
today ...

cheers
tobi


Yesterday David Behr wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> As soon as I remove "nomasterpoll" the master reads all the cache data

> into the rrd files.
>
>
>
> The work around is to define a "dummy" target on the master with
> host=127.0.0.1 and hide=yes.  This guarantees the master will always 
> have at least one target of each probe and it is hidden on the menu.  
> This solves it.
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> David
>
>

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