We have the issues on latest stable (we even tried the just-committed 5898), and then switched to the trunk branch to try incremental updates until the issue appeared.  Everything is OK up to revision 5883.  However, when I ran a poll with debug, everything works OK (even in the latest revisions).  We use the poller-wrapper script in our crontab, and when I edited it to pass the debug argument to the poller.php script, the issue is resolved.  So only non-debug polling via the poller-wrapper script seems (partially) broken, strangely.

I can provide the full debug and non-debug polling logs, if required, but there isn't really anything useful there, since everything works as expected with the debug turned on, and pretty much nothing gets output on the non-debug runs that fail.  Here are the first 15 lines of the no-debug poll run log, with a host "xxx1" that failed at the top:

Observium v0.14.10.5898
Poller

Starting polling run:

xxx1nyi.net 26 ios (cisco)
Observium v0.14.10.5898
Poller

Starting polling run:

xxx2.nyi.net 9 ios (cisco)
Observium v0.14.10.5898
Poller


  Also, when the non-debug poll runs and fails, it only takes < 1 second to finish the poll.  Whatever is failing is happening very early in the polling process, before it runs any SQL.  Here is a snippet of some failures from the poll log:

[2014/10/21 14:35:00 -0400] discovery.php(84391): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/discovery.php: new - 0 devices discovered in 0.002 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:01 -0400] poller.php(84397): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx1.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.294 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:01 -0400] poller.php(84402): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx2.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.516 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:08 -0400] poller.php(84601): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx3.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.405 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:11 -0400] poller.php(84689): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx4.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.259 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:12 -0400] poller.php(84711): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx5.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.334 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:17 -0400] poller.php(84855): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx6.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.170 secs
[2014/10/21 14:35:17 -0400] poller.php(84871): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx7.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 0.270 secs

These servers normally take about 15 - 30 seconds each to poll.  Here is the start of the successful debug-enabled poll run for the same host that failed first above (xxx1):

xxx1.nyi.net 26 ios (cisco)
Observium v0.14.10.5898
Poller

Starting polling run:


SQL[SELECT `device_id` FROM `devices` WHERE `disabled` = 0 AND `device_id` = '9' ORDER BY `device_id` ASC]

SQL[SELECT * FROM `devices` WHERE `device_id` = '9']

And the poll log times:
[2014/10/21 14:37:58 -0400] poller.php(86759): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx1.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 21.44 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:00 -0400] poller.php(86755): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx2.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 23.24 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:04 -0400] poller.php(86753): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx3.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 27.00 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:05 -0400] poller.php(87587): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx4.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 6.771 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:07 -0400] poller.php(87645): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx5.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 7.678 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:07 -0400] poller.php(86760): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx6.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 30.35 secs
[2014/10/21 14:38:16 -0400] poller.php(87247): /usr/local/www/apache24/observium/poller.php: xxx7.nyi.net - 1 devices polled in 27.67 secs

On 10/21/2014 11:13 AM, Mike Stupalov wrote:
Joseph,

 same questions..
you get this issue on latest stable (r5889) or latest trunk?

if yes, then send me debug output for any device with high polling time:
./poller.php -d -h your_device

changes in r5884, can't create such problems.


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Joseph Zancocchio <joseph@nyi.net> wrote:
I believe I have been experiencing the same issue with the latest stable update, and have narrowed down the problem I have seen to the changes made in revision 5884.  Can you try to svn up -r 5883 (make sure to switch to the current branch if you are using the stable currently) and see if everything works, and if so, svn up -r 5884 to see if the behavior returns?

-Joe



On 10/21/2014 06:26 AM, Mike Stupalov wrote:
On 21.10.2014 14:03, Rutger Bevaart wrote:

Hi,

Updated to the latest svn version yesterday, after which I immediately had issues with the poller. Updated from a release about two weeks older. Now I get up/down for different devices, sometimes complete BGP neighbours down on others. Device down alerts on snmp, etc.

I increased the number of poller processes in the crontab and increased snap timeout values etc. However, I still have graphs with large parts missing because of this. Checked poller times, kept an eye on the processes running and logs. Some devices take 120s to poll completely, but all polling is done in about 2 minutes. Still I get these errors, other than the upgrade no changes have been made to firewalls, policies, etc.

Any clues? Do I need to upgrade php?

Show your crontab.
How many memory on observium host.

Send debug output for one device (with long polling time):
./poller.php -d -h some_device > /tmp/debug_poller

(Do not sent this output to list) ;)



Regards,
Rutger

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