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Re: pmie spawning more than 1 instance per host

To: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pmie spawning more than 1 instance per host
From: Michael Newton <kimbrr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:15:40 +1000
Cc: Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode@xxxxxxxxx>, pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 30 May 2007, Michael Newton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:22 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> > > I'm using pmie to monitor about 50 hosts from a central monitor. The
> > > central monitor is running the pmie_check from /etc/cron.hourly/,
> > > and annoyingly it seems to not always be able to detect if an instance
> > > for a host is already running, so after a few days, I end up with more
> > > than one pmie per host.
> > >
> > > Anyone else seen this? And maybe have a workaround?
> >
> > We run a somewhat similar setup (multiple hosts monitored, RHEL4),
> > and I've never hit this issue.  Can you post your pmie control file
> > and 'ps -ef | grep pmie' (preferably when multiple pmie instances
> > incorrectly running)?
>
> I got it, thanks

sorry people.. as you can see im a bit scattered. That reply was meant to
be to Nathan's mail about the patches he sent .. doh!

and of course i got them, since they were directly addressed to me..
double doh!

hopefully the LRZ panic will subside very shortly and i can start to look
at some of these things

thanks
Dr.Michael("Kimba")Newton  kimbrr@xxxxxxx


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