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John R.
Asked: 2010-12-13 04:30:12 +0800 CST

Munin on localhost (telnet only displays period)

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I set up munin to run as root for testing, my relevant config is as so:

munin.conf:

[localhost]
    address 127.0.0.1
    use_node_name yes

I tried fqnd.mysite.com (but it couldn't connect), localhost.localdomain too which runs but I'll explain in a sec

munin-node.conf:

allow ^127\.0\.0\.1$

# Which address to bind to;
host 127.0.0.1
host_name localhost
port 4949

Now it all works fine if I type munin-run cpu and it lists myspecs, but when I telnet to localhost:4949 a session will be like this:

# munin node at localhost
list
cpu df df_inode entropy exim_mailstats forks fw_conntrack fw_forwarded_local fw_packets http_loadtime if_err_eth0 if_eth0 interrupts iostat iostat_ios irqstats load memory munin_stats nfs4_client nfsd nfsd4 ntp_kernel_err ntp_kernel_pll_freq ntp_kernel_pll_off ntp_offset open_files open_inodes postfix_mailqueue postfix_mailvolume proc_pri processes swap threads uptime users vmstat
fetch df
.
fetch cpu
.

As you see plugins are listed! But for some reason it replies with a '.', I am running this under root so I don't think it is a permission problem. Any clues will get me off my computer at 4:32AM!

monitoring telnet munin

2 Answers

  1. I can't do a better job than http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/Debugging_Munin_plugins, but one step you've either not done or not posted is running the plugins out of /etc/munin/plugins and seeing what they say. Try

    # /etc/munin/plugins/df

    and see what you get back. You should also be aware that although munin-node runs as root, the plugins do not necessarily do so; see /etc/munin/{plugins.conf,plugin-conf.d/*} for insight into which user any given plugin may run as.

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  2. I had found my problem, it was all printing to STDERR rather than STDOUT, this bug apparently only happens in OpenSUSE 9/10, odd it happened on Ubuntu 10.04..

    The bug can be found here: http://munin-monitoring.org/ticket/846

    And patch is as follows:

    --- node/lib/Munin/Node/Service.pm.orig 2010-04-26 12:33:56.217889267 +0000
+++ node/lib/Munin/Node/Service.pm      2010-04-26 14:07:09.951259792 +0000
@@ -212,7 +212,14 @@
     print STDERR "# About to run '", join (' ', @command), "'\n" 
        if $config->{DEBUG};

-    exec @command;
+    # work around exec bug in SLES10's Perl
+    # exec @command;
+    my $res = `@command`;
+    print STDERR "# '", join (' ', @command), "' returned $res\n"
+        if $config->{DEBUG};
+    print STDOUT $res;
+    exit;
+
 }

    It happened to me, so I am sure maybe someone somewhere can use this, take care in changing the files though. I had updated my original question to better be found by search engines of similar queries, I know I had to search a lot to find this.

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