Axel,
On 01/15/2017 09:30 AM, david wrote:
... I was able to reconfigure the
wifi interface (orig: wlp4s0) to be wlan0 using an appropriate udev link
file last night.
This turned out to be a critical part of the troubleshooting.
What I'm seeing with new eyes is that while the msg.$HOST.txt file on
the client has the appropriate [ifstat] block in it with valid data, I'm
still not getting new RRD files, ifstat.*.rrd, generated on the xymon
server for display. The files are dated early this month.
User error here, in part, but it also pointed out what I think is the
real bug here. I had been trying to use the INTERFACES:REGEXP function
in the hosts.cfg file, and by only specifying the desired, original
interface (wlp4s0) the other files would not update as should be expected.
However, this indicates that xymon does NOT currently recognize the udev
assigned interfaces, at least specifically 'wl*', and I suspect 'en*'. I
base this on the new, functional flag for this host as:
INTERFACES:"eth0|wlp4s0"
The results are that I get ifstat.eth0.rrd updating now, but no creation
of the needed ifstat.wlp4s0.rrd file for which valid data is being
collected.
When I had the wireless interface renamed 'wlan0' using udev rules, I
started getting ifstat.wlan0.rrd file data mapped.
Based on all this, I believe the bug was incorrectly filed and should be
listed as something similar to "udev Predictable Network Interface Names
are not properly recognized".
It's also worth mentioning that the new net-tools doesn't seem to impact
this issue, either. That was a false suspicion.
Hopefully this all makes sense,
david
