Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Monitoring Gateway

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
    55 Posts 5 Posters 9.2k Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • hendiH
      hendi
      last edited by

      I don't know what is wrong with the pfsense configuration, but the monitoring keeps stopping. It runs for a few days and then stops. For example, now I see that it has stopped since 21.11

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        You see any errors in the logs when it stops?

        Does the gateway fail when it stops? The WAN reconnect?

        hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • hendiH
          hendi @stephenw10
          last edited by

          This post is deleted!
          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Is it all the monitoring data that stops each time? Not just gateway monitoring?

            Nothing else in the system log at the time it appears to stop?

            hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • hendiH
              hendi @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 Monitoring stopped again. This time without any restart. Nothing works in monitoring, not just the gateway.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                And still nothing in the system log when it happened?

                hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • hendiH
                  hendi @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 I cleared all logs, unninstalled all packages.

                  drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody  wheel      20 Jan  8 11:35 .
drwxr-xr-x  16 root    wheel      27 Jan  8 08:57 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root    wheel  147848 Jan  8 11:42 WANGW-quality.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 ipsec-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 ipsec-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 lan-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 lan-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 opt1-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 opt1-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 ovpns1-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 ovpns1-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel   49720 Jan  8 11:42 ovpns1-vpnusers.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  588592 Jan  8 11:42 system-mbuf.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  735320 Jan  8 11:42 system-memory.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  245976 Jan  8 11:42 system-processor.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  275648 Jan  8 11:42 system-sensors.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  245976 Jan  8 11:42 system-states.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 root    wheel    8493 Jan  8 11:35 updaterrd.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 wan-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--   1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan  8 11:42 wan-traffic.rrd

                  Everytime i run

                  sh ./updaterrd.sh

                  A recording appears in the graphics. Then nothing appears. I run it again, it appears again. Then nothing. Can I run that command in crontab to update the graphs every 1 minute?

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    You probably could but you definitely shouldn't need to. That script should be running continually anyway:

                    [23.01-BETA][root@1100.stevew.lan]/root: ps -auxwwd | grep rrd
root    28762   0.0  0.3  13336  2844 u0- IN   13:53   0:00.11 |-- /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh

                    Steve

                    hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • hendiH
                      hendi @stephenw10
                      last edited by

                      @stephenw10

                      [2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@ccia1.home.arpa]/root: ps -auxwwd | grep rrd
root    96131   0.0  0.1  11212  2484  0  S+   16:08     0:00.00 |       `-- grep rrd
root    30031   0.0  0.1  11584  2664 v0- IN   11:35     0:00.03 |-- /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
root    23555   0.0  0.1  11584  2660  -  IN   11:54     0:00.00 | `-- /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh

                      I don't know why it appears twice

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Mmm, me either. I don't see that anywhere here. Did you already start it manually or add it to some script?

                        hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • hendiH
                          hendi @stephenw10
                          last edited by

                          @stephenw10 I haven't added it to cron yet and haven't run updaterrd.sh yet. This morning I deleted everything with .rrd from /var/db/rrd. Then reboot. It still doesn't update.

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Clearly something in your install is starting that script incorrectly or the script is getting hung up on something trying to update it. I would have expected clearing the RRD data to remove whatever that might be though.
                            I'd probably look at reinstalling at this point. At least that would narrow it to a config problem or something specific to your install.

                            Steve

                            johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10 I concur with the reinstall.. If there was something amiss with it in general you would think the forums would be a fire with people having issues with their monitoring. So it has to be something odd with the install or issue with something being monitored that is unique to the setup that is causing the issue.

                              An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                              If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                              Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                              SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                              • hendiH
                                hendi
                                last edited by

                                I will reinstall pfsense at some point. After installation, monitoring worked until a certain point. Unfortunately, I don't have all the logs anymore, but I think it coincided with the moment when I added another network card for a separate network. Thanks

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • hendiH
                                  hendi
                                  last edited by

                                  I have now installed ntopng. Monitoring has started to work.😍 Let's see for how long.

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Huh. That's.... interesting 🤔

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • hendiH
                                      hendi
                                      last edited by

                                      He stopped again. I don't know what or how I should search in the logs.

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        It appears the update script is hitting something it's failing to process but it doesn't do it immediately. So what changes when it fails? Is there anything logged at all at that time?

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • hendiH
                                          hendi
                                          last edited by 

                                          [2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@ccia1.home.arpa]/root: ls -lt /var/db/rrd
total 402
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 ovpns1-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 ovpns1-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 ipsec-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 ipsec-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 opt1-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 opt1-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 lan-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 lan-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 wan-packets.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  393168 Jan 10 17:05 wan-traffic.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  147848 Jan 10 17:04 WANGW-quality.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  882048 Jan 10 17:04 ntpd.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  275648 Jan 10 17:04 system-sensors.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  588592 Jan 10 17:04 system-mbuf.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  735320 Jan 10 17:04 system-memory.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  245976 Jan 10 17:04 system-processor.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel  245976 Jan 10 17:04 system-states.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody  wheel   49720 Jan 10 17:04 ovpns1-vpnusers.rrd
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel    9205 Jan 10 15:48 updaterrd.sh

                                          [2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@ccia1.home.arpa]/root: grep "rrd" /var/log/system.log
Jan  8 11:35:05 ccia1 php[415]: rc.bootup: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 16:46:33 ccia1 php[415]: rc.bootup: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:29:28 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /services_ntpd.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:36:42 ccia1 php-fpm[368]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:37:29 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:40:40 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:42:29 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:45:32 ccia1 php-fpm[4876]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 17:46:03 ccia1 php-fpm[368]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 18:00:17 ccia1 php-fpm[368]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 18:39:20 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 19:02:27 ccia1 php-fpm[368]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan  8 19:04:55 ccia1 php-fpm[367]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script
Jan 10 15:48:02 ccia1 php-fpm[368]: /status_monitoring.php: Creating rrd update script

                                          [2.6.0-RELEASE][admin@ccia1.home.arpa]/root: ps -auxwwd | grep rrd
root    21285   0.0  0.1  11212   2484  0  S+   19:57      0:00.00 |       `-- grep rrd
root    90514   0.0  0.1  11592   2860  -  IN   15:48      0:00.62 |-- /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
root    56237   0.0  0.1  11592   2856  -  IN   17:05      0:00.00 | `-- /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh

                                          Is the problem because updaterrd.sh is duplicated? It seems to coincide with the time when the logs stop. But why does it run twice?

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Is there anything in the logs at 17.04/5 though? Not just rrd entries?

                                            hendiH 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • First post
                                              Last post
                                            Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.