Mike,

I've been seeing problems like this in networks that turns out to be the Blaster and Nachi virii in their "broadcast" mode -- when they try to ping every IP address on the local subnet, which results in massive broadcast packets on large (e.g. 10.0.0.0/8) subnets. Many routers discard ICMP packets when faced with so much broadcast traffic. I don't believe Intermapper will sense the broadcast traffic, because it may not be a high bits per second data rate, just a high packets per second.

Have you put a sniffer on your network to see if you've got a broadcast flood going on?

-mel

I rarely am watching the screen at the exact moment when the probe is
reported as down, so I can't tell you the "Reason" from the Satus Window.
Here's what I have right now.

The Debug log has nothing for the probe.

The outage log looks like this:

Mon, Nov 03, 2003       03:58 PM        Cheyenne Temp   29 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    03:58 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       04:01 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    04:01 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       05:30 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    05:30 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       07:20 PM        Cheyenne Temp   58 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    07:19 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       07:42 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    07:42 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       07:59 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    07:59 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       09:45 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    09:44 PM
Mon, Nov 03, 2003       11:13 PM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    11:13 PM
Tue, Nov 04, 2003       12:00 AM        Cheyenne Temp   28 seconds      Mon,
Nov 03, 2003    11:59 PM

The event log looks like this:

11/03 19:19:33  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 49 minutes, 2
seconds)
11/03 19:20:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 58 seconds)
11/03 19:42:03  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 21 minutes, 32 seconds)
11/03 19:42:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
11/03 19:59:03  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 16 minutes, 32 seconds)
11/03 19:59:31  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
11/03 21:44:32  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 45 minutes, 1
second)
11/03 21:45:00  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
11/03 23:13:02  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 1 hour, 28 minutes, 2
seconds)
11/03 23:13:30  UP    Cheyenne Temp::  (Was down for 28 seconds)
11/03 23:59:32  DOWN  Cheyenne Temp::  (Was up for 46 minutes, 2 seconds)

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:53 AM
To: InterMapper Discussion
Subject: Re: Nagios false down reads

At 8:30 AM -0700 11/4/03, Mike Lieberman wrote:
Are packets from Nagios devices easily lost, or occasionally not sent,
 >for some reason?
 >
 >We are using a remote temp probe which supports Nagios via IM. The
 >Nagios code seems to work, and the temps are properly read. There is
 >good open bandwidth between the probe and the IM service, (by a DS3
which during these down events may have under 10% utilization). Never
the less we see frequent "down" events. Setting the timeout to a longer
setting just makes the "Down"
longer before the "UP". It doesn't appear to be a delayed packet as
much as a missed, unsent or discarded packet.

Does anyone have anything else similar happening with Nagios supported
equipment under IM?


What does the status window give as a reason for these down events? It would be worth checking the debug log, too, to see if IM is having difficulty setting up and executing the Nagios command from time to time.

-- Christopher

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