[smokeping-users] smokeping and nagios

[Peter Brunnengräber]

Hi Ged,
  Sorry... it was a move from 32-bit Lenny on a basic P4 server to 64-bit Squeeze on a new quad-core Intel xeon.  Both being x86 based, I do believe that it is little endian for both.  Both are 2.6 kernel based...

Thanks again!  :)

With kind regards. -Peter


----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Haywood" <ged at jubileegroup.co.uk>
To: "Peter Brunnengräber" <pbrunnen at bccglobal.com>
Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:55:06 AM
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] smokeping and nagios

Hi there,

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Peter Brunnengräber wrote:

> I recently upgraded from a 32-bit to 64-bit debian ...  The check
> script is querying and getting no results and as a result is
> reporting "RRD file somefile.rrd has no data in last n seconds."

> Has anyone else had problems using RRDs.pm on 64-bit or any other
> thoughts/ideas on the matter?

I use both Nagios and Smokeping on AMD64 with Debian Squeeze but I
don't use the check_smokeping.pl script.  I think it's unlikely that
Perl scripts will be baffled by the change from a 32-bit to a 64-bit
system but one thing I noticed when I first started using the AMD64
(Opteron-based) system was that ping times were all multiples of four
milliseconds because of HPET problems.  That was under Debian Etch, a
2.4 kernel, years ago; I had to supply a kernel parameter at boot time
to get the time resolution I wanted.  The problems seem to be handled
without my kernel command line tweaks now Debian uses a 2.6 kernel.

You don't say in your mail whether or not you changed the machine
which you're using to run Nagios and Smokeping but if you did I wonder
if endianness is causing problems somewhere.

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73,
Ged.