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List:       opennms-discuss
Subject:    Re: [opennms-discuss] Help Needed
From:       Sudeep Goyal <sudeepg () cse ! iitb ! ac ! in>
Date:       2005-04-17 14:51:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0504172009320.13665 () mars ! cse ! iitb ! ac ! in
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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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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