From opennms-discuss Sun Apr 17 14:51:48 2005 From: Sudeep Goyal Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:51:48 +0000 To: opennms-discuss Subject: Re: [opennms-discuss] Help Needed Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opennms-discuss&m=111374895407965 Sorry, operating system I am using is Fedora-core 3. On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Sudeep Goyal wrote: > Hi All, > > This is Sudeep from India. I am stuck up a little. I installed > opennms-1.2.2-1 from the source. I am using tomcat-4.1.24 and > postgresql-7.4.2. Everything seems to be working fine except that when I run >> #opennnms start > It says that "Started OpenNMS, but it has not finished starting up". > And it just says that opennms is stopped when I type >> #opennms -v status > > I looked into logs and into manager.log and everything seems to ok. I also > looked into archives and tried the solution mentioned there, but to no > sucess. Tried everything with jdk1.4.2 also. Just couldn't figure out. Plz > help. > > Thanks a lot, > Sudeep > > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > >> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:46 -0500, DBush@morse.bwauto.com wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> I did a search on this in the list archives, and either this hasn't >>> been covered or I didn't search for the right keywords. >>> >>> I set up an OpenNMS box on my network, added the appropriate subnet, >>> and it discovered all my servers just fine. After things running smoothly >>> for a few days I figured I'd add the network equipment so I added the >>> subnet >>> for that equipment to the discovery config file. As is typical it found >>> what >>> I'd expected - some with SNMP, some without, and I -THOUGHT- I was okay. >>> >>> Then my co-worker (who knew nothing about this box) informed me that >>> our Cabletron 6000 chassis had spontaneously rebooted at 4:30 PM on >>> Friday, >>> Saturday, and Sunday. I didn't let on to my suspicions, but I thought that >>> was about the time I'd turned on discovery on the subnet with the >>> switches. >>> I quietly removed the discovery for that subnet, restarted the OpenNMS >>> service, and prayed that this event didn't happen again. No such luck. >>> >>> Right around the same time it happened the previous days the chassis >>> rebooted again on Monday afternoon. He'd had a sniffer going and saw >>> packets >>> coming from some device to the switch. I asked for the IP address, and >>> sure >>> enough it was my little box with OpenNMS. >>> >>> He went nuts, demanded that I remove the box from the network, etc. >>> This is an emotional person who has never worked with network management >>> tools, and would not give me the chance to disable polling on those >>> devices. >>> >>> >>> Someone out there must have run into something like this before. I >>> seem to recall that either Smarts or OpenView caused the same problems >>> with >>> older Cabletron equipment at one of my previous jobs. I'm assuming that >>> each >>> card in the chassis gets an SNMP poll at once, and it's just more than the >>> collective horsepower of that chassis can handle so it ends up rebooting. >>> Does anyone have a link with a description of this problem and what causes >>> it? >>> >>> Any info that anyone can send would be appreciated. I'm not >>> necessarily looking for work arounds on that hardware. I'm more interested >>> in seeing that this is a documented problem on either that kind of chassis >>> or Cabletron equipment of that vintage. Likewise I suspect that this >>> problem >>> is across the board for network management software - not just OpenNMS. >>> >>> Help! >>> - Dave >>> >>> >>> Dave Bush >>> Network Specialist >>> (607)266-5074 >>> dbush@morse.bwauto.com >>> >> I have heard of Cabletrons rebooting from snmpwalks in the past. >> >> Ted >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting >> Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time >> by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. 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