Re: Runaway network bandwith alarms after upgrade

[Martin Pala]

Hello Paul,

as you mentioned you have upgraded other servers in the farm and didn't 
experienced this problem ... what was the version on these other servers? (both 
Debian and monit?)

Best regards,
Martin


> On 17 Oct 2016, at 22:55, Paul Theodoropoulos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded a couple of servers from Debian Wheezy to Debian Jessie. 
> Since then, I'm getting frequent alarms from my network bandwidth test.
> 
> The test:
> check network network-bandwidth with interface eth0
> if total upload > 3 GB in last 1 hours then alert
> if total download > 5 GB in last 2 hours then alert
> if total download > 10 GB in last day then alert
> 
> I wasn't getting alarms before the upgrade, so to try to be thorough, I 
> rebuilt monit from source. No change. This is 5.19.
> 
> The problem is that there's definitely not bandwidth anywhere near my testing 
> values taking place. With an uptime of 1 day, 14 hours, eth0 shows:
> 
> ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:a7:3e:8e
>          inet addr:10.124.74.68  Bcast:10.124.74.127  Mask:255.255.255.192
>          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fea7:3e8e/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:27941718 errors:0 dropped:21 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:59281394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:333591539 (318.1 MiB)  TX bytes:4005580141 (3.7 GiB)
> 
> Thoughts? I upgraded a number of other servers in our farm, and have not 
> experienced this.
> 
> -- 
> Paul Theodoropoulos
> www.anastrophe.com
> 
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