[BlueOnyx:21799] Re: Active monitor — orange star

[Meaulnes Legler @ MailList]

thank you Michael

Meaulnes


On 02.03.18 16:22, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Meaulnes,
>
>> since a while, Active Monitor displays an orange star saying that there> is a Network Status error or warning.
>>> But everything works fine, the virtual server is connected.> > what's
> wrong?
> Your BlueOnyx runs on Aventurin{e} and uses venet0 as primary interface.
> The network architecture inside the VPS is a bit different than on a
> stand alone server.
>
> For example: You don't have a "real" network gateway, but a "virtual"
> one with the IP 192.0.2.1. This gateway cannot be pinged:
>
> # ping 192.0.2.1
> PING 192.0.2.1 (192.0.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>
> If the monitoring of "Network Status" is enabled in "Active Monitor",
> then Swatch will try to figure out your network status periodically.
>
> On anything but Aventurin{e} we simply ping the IP of the gateway of the
> BlueOnyx and on Aventurin{e} we ping the IP address of the master node.
>
> Should the ping of that targeted IP fail, then Active Monitor switches
> the network status to yellow.
>
> If your AM-Status is yellow, this either means that the Active Monitor
> script couldn't determine the IP address of the master node, or it
> couldn't ping it. In itself this isn't critical, as the master node is
> always reachable from a VPS and it's impossible to misconfigure the
> network of a VPS as it always autoconfigures on VPS startup.
>
> If this problem doesn't resolve itself during one of the next Swatch
> runs you can go to "Active Monitor" / "Settings" and can move "Network
> Status" from the left to the right side to turn off monitoring of this
> component.
>