[naemon-dev] Naemon Livestatus update

[Robin Sonefors]

Hey,

On 2014-03-31 18:49, Eron Nicholson wrote:
> Hey all,
>    Thanks for the responses and the info.  I appreciate that you guys
> are responsive to these issues.  I also posted this to the check_mk
> users list and haven't gotten any response yet (see
> http://lists.mathias-kettner.de/pipermail/checkmk-en/2014-March/011881.html).
>
> Since we are looking to use both Naemon and Check_mk in our new
> monitoring system, I would certainly prefer it if there was a single
> supported livestatus version shared between the two projects.  We do
> see some issues when trying to use the Check_MK UI with
> naemon-livestatus, as they have added new columns :
>
> Primary - Livestatus error
> Unhandled exception: 400: Table 'hosts' has no column
> 'host_comments_with_extra_info'
>
> We have built our own UI and Thruk is also perfectly fine, so this
> isn't really a big concern.  As long as the backends are compatible,
> we should be fine with either version.
>
> The major issue with the current version of naemon-livestatus is that
> it crashes after ~10 seconds in our environment.  As I mentioned
> earlier, we have tons of passive services being sent in via livestatus
> - both from the check_mk agent checks and our own custom checks.  If
> it disable our custom checks, naemon-livestatus will not crash, so it
> has something to do with the additional passive checks we are sending.
>   I have enabled livestatus logging and debugging via :
>
> broker_module=/usr/lib/naemon/livestatus.o /var/cache/naemon/live
> log_file=/var/log/naemon/livestatus.log debug=1
>
> And do not see any errors in the livestatus.log when the process dies.
>   I do sometimes see segfault errors in the naemon.log :
>
> [1396281951] Caught SIGSEGV, shutting down...

I know there were a lot of those when we originally forked due 
livestatus not even trying to synchronize with nagios/naemon before 
submitting commands in the wrong thread, but I think Sven fixed that 
before we released 0.8. I'm assuming your livestatus is built from our 
latest git version?

> We are very, very reliant on livestatus for both pushing in passive
> service checks and pulling data for our UI.  So our (new) monitoring
> system is basically unusable until we can get a livestatus that works
> with naemon and doesn't crash.  Fortunately, we still have our nagios3
> system up and working, so we have some time to try to figure out these
> kinds of issues.
>
> I would love to help out in troubleshooting this problem.  Let me know
> if there's a newer version of naemon-livestatus that I can try or if
> you would like me to gather some more data on the crashes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eron Nicholson
> Systems Administrator | Basecamp

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