Problems with spine

geekman · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Helena MT

I have upgraded my test server to the latest spine this morning. When I use spine as the poller it seems to lock up causing it to run over the time limit and not updating any RRDs.

server is Xubuntu 7.10 (i know its not the stable release but i havn't had any problems with it.)
P3 600mhz
256mb ram
10gb hdd

CMD.PHP works just fine. finished is about 40 seconds or so.
09/20/2007 10:50:39 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:36.8077 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:44 HostsPerProcess:44 DataSources:576 RRDsProcessed:318

I know the machine is slow, but cactid worked fine.

any ideas?

rony · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

Spine is only designed to work with 0.8.7

It is not compatible with 0.8.6x

geekman · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Helena MT

sorry I forgot to mension this is also 8.7 beta 3

rony · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

Did it compile correctly?

What version of NET-SNMP and OpenSSL do you have installed?

geekman · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Helena MT

Net-snmp version: 5.3.1
openssl version: 0.9.8e ( i think cant seem to find this one, this info is from "man openssl")

I didn't recieve any errors during compile.

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject:

Set logging to debug and then, open a command prompt and run the following:

cd /usr/local/spine/bin
./spine

Post your output.

TheWitness

geekman · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Helena MT

mikek@mikek-desktop:/var/www/cacti$ ./spine
SPINE: Using spine config file [spine.conf]
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0]
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0]
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] DEBUG: The path_php_server variable is /var/www/cacti/script_server.php
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] DEBUG: The path_cactilog variable is /var/www/cacti/log/cacti.log
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0]
09/20/2007 01:22:51 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] DEBUG: The log_destination variable is 1 (FILE)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

My spine is in the cacti directory, if that matters??

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

Ok, that should be enough. Do you know how to generate a core file?

TheWitness

geekman · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Helena MT

ok I re-ran the ./spine again and now it is giving a different output

however I looked up making a core file on google, seems I would use gcore and specify a PID, the spine process does not seem to last long enough to grap the pid and run gcore

as for the different output its seems to be getting farther but the output is 700+ lines long (still only getting to about 15 of the hosts)

not getting the segment fault error any more as well

not sure what i changed

(no wait, i see)

first run i was running as a normal user in a folder only root has access to. running as sudo ./spine gives the long output.

any certain thing you want from the log file that i can post?

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Interesting. So, when the current user has no permissions, segmentation fault. Did it not have permissions to the spine.conf file?

Also, run in HIGH mode and post the output. That would be good.

TheWitness

TheWitness · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

I have corrected this in SVN. Thanks for the report.