Monitoring Gateway

hendi

Any idea why the graphics didn't work?

stephenw10

Not really. It looked like the update script was stalled on some sub-process. Whatever it was it got past that and started logging data again.

hendi

Thank you all for your support!

hendi

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

stephenw10

You see any errors in the logs when it stops?

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

hendi

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stephenw10

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?

hendi

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

stephenw10

And still nothing in the system log when it happened?

hendi

@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?

stephenw10

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

hendi

@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

stephenw10

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

hendi

@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.

stephenw10

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

johnpoz

@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.

hendi

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

hendi

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

stephenw10

Huh. That's.... interesting

hendi

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