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  1. Observium
  2. OBS-3466

Abandon poll if device stops responding

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    • Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Major
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    • Professional Edition
    • Poller
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    Description

      When a poller performs the ping and the snmp ping at the start of a poll, it will assume the device is UP if the results are ok.

      But if the device stops responding after that point, then this happens: 

      I had a chat on IRC about this:

      <Gunni> adama: why does this happen?
      <Gunni> can your poller not notice the request timed out, vs the value being set to ''?
      <landy> that happen when device down after check their status, mean ping and snmp ping return ok, but after stop responding
      <landy> try increase snmp timeout
      <Gunni> yeah i expected that landy, but can't the script notice that and ... abandon the poll or some instead of clearing all fields?
      <landy> check status before each module - derp idea

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          [OBS-3466] Abandon poll if device stops responding

          Not sure if it's help in all cases, but if all params resets in system module (sysDescr, etc) next polls will stopped.

          Fixed in r11100.

          landy Mike Stupalov added a comment - Not sure if it's help in all cases, but if all params resets in system module (sysDescr, etc) next polls will stopped. Fixed in r11100.

          Hey, here's an idea, all interfaces changing from fullDuplex to NULL is pretty unlikely, right?

          Catch unlikely things and do a check for status? If status is fine, trust the response, othervise abandon the poll.

          How does that sound?

          gunnarg Gunnar Guðvarðarson added a comment - Hey, here's an idea, all interfaces changing from fullDuplex to NULL is pretty unlikely, right? Catch unlikely things and do a check for status? If status is fine, trust the response, othervise abandon the poll. How does that sound?

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            landy Mike Stupalov
            gunnarg Gunnar Guðvarðarson
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