Monitoring Probes status is showing "Pending" on satellite WebUI and it is not getting updated.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite version 5.3 or earlier

Issue

  • All Monitoring probes on satellite server show probe status as pending and never changes.

Resolution

  • Remove any files from /home/nocpulse/var/ProbeState that are 0 bytes in size, then push the monitoring scout config and restart Satellite services:

    • Go to the Satellite web UI.
    • Go to the Monitoring tab.
    • Click on "Scout Config Push".
    • Select the checkbox next to the scout name "RHN Satellite Monitoring Scout"  then click on "Push Scout Configs".

    • Finally, restart Satellite services:

      # service rhn-satellite restart

  • The underlying cause has been resolved as of Satellite version 5.3.RHEA-2009:1434

Root Cause

  • Some of the probe state files in /home/nocpulse/var/ProbeState were truncated to 0 bytes, and monitoring stops processing when it encounters these files.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Review /var/log/nocpulse/kernel-error.log from the Satellite server, and look for the following kinds of errors:

    2010-05-19 13:02:06 Event terminated abnormally
NOCpulse::Probe::InternalError: Cannot read /home/nocpulse/var/ProbeState/state.3230:   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/NOCpulse/Probe/PriorState.pm line 132
        called from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/NOCpulse/Probe/PriorState.pm line 179
        called from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/NOCpulse/Scheduler/Event/ProbeEvent.pm line 66
        called from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/NOCpulse/Scheduler/Event/ProbeEvent.pm line 51
        called from /home/nocpulse/bin/kernel.pl line 297
        called from /home/nocpulse/bin/kernel.pl line 141

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