PE6850 and snmpd: Rebooting every Sunday

[Bahadir Kiziltan]

There were all safe and sound before installing OMSA 5.0 :-). Don't
wanna blame OMSA for this but since related services are stopped we
haven't faced with the issue.

OMSA version 5.1 is released. I give it a try soon.

On 10/3/06, Jason Goodwin <jason.goodwin at ppminfo.com> wrote:
> Just a wild guess, but maybe one of the log rotation scripts is sending
> a kill to init (kill 1) instead of the process it is rotating logs for?
> I've seen scripts that don't check the PID carefully before killing...
>
> Other than that, are you using any kind of hardware watchdog timer that
> could be rebooting your server if the timer isn't getting reset
> properly?
>
> Good luck tracking down the problem!
> --
> Jason
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 21:50 +0300, Bahadir Kiziltan wrote:
> > Bloody sure they are as recieved alerts about losing connection from
> > applications. Also double checked by issueing of uptime command.
> >
> > On 10/3/06, Mann, Andrew <amann at ea.com> wrote:
> > >        Are you sure these servers are rebooting?  The syslog process
> > > and snmpd process are restarted every Sunday just after 4 AM on RedHat
> > > default configuration.  This is controlled by logrotate which runs daily
> > > (/etc/cron.daily/logrotate) and is configured through
> > > /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/syslog, /etc/logrotate.d/snmpd.
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> > > [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Bahadir Kiziltan
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:32 AM
> > > To: Linux-PowerEdge at dell.com
> > > Subject: PE6850 and snmpd: Rebooting every Sunday
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have 4 PE6850 servers with the same hw config running RHEL4 U3,
> > > EM64T. Dell OMSA 5.0 is also up and running on all servers.
> > >
> > > Every Sunday around 04:03 AM all servers go to reboot suddenly. There
> > > are no jobs scheduled in crontab. When it'd happened first time I
> > > checked system logs to find something can be useful...
> > >
> > > /var/log/messages.log
> > >
> > > Sep 24 04:03:03 tradbdb1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > > Sep 24 04:03:03 tradbdb1 snmpd[14839]: NET-SNMP version 5.1.2
> > > Sep 24 04:03:04 tradbdb1 crond(pam_unix)[12890]: session closed for user
> > > root
> > > Sep 24 04:03:06 tradbdb1 snmpd[14839]: [smux_accept] accepted fd 13
> > > from 127.0.0.1:62456
> > > Sep 24 04:03:06 tradbdb1 snmpd[14839]: accepted smux peer: oid
> > > SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.674.10892.1, password , descr Systems
> > > Management SNMP MIB Plug-in Manager
> > > Sep 24 04:15:01 tradbdb1 crond(pam_unix)[596]: session opened for user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Sep 24 04:15:02 tradbdb1 crond(pam_unix)[596]: session closed for user
> > > root
> > > Sep 24 04:19:31 tradbdb1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > > Sep 24 04:19:31 tradbdb1 syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > > Sep 24 04:19:31 tradbdb1 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
> > > started.
> > >
> > > /var/log/snmpd.log
> > >
> > > [smux_accept] accepted fd 13 from 127.0.0.1:32770
> > > accepted smux peer: oid SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.674.10892.1, password
> > > , descr Systems Management SNMP MIB Plug-in Manager
> > > Got trap from peer on fd 13
> > > Got trap from peer on fd 13
> > > [smux_accept] accepted fd 14 from 10.35.0.6:32809
> > > refused smux peer: oid SNMPv2-SMI::zeroDotZero, password , descr NSGS
> > > peer disconnected: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.674.10892.1
> > > Received TERM or STOP signal...  shutting down...
> > >
> > >
> > > After stopped all OMSA services as well as snmpd deamon, I do not
> > > encounter the problem.
> > >
> > > Any clue?
> > >
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