Fog server keeps going down

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman Can you guys trust me when I tell you it is not a duplicate IP address. No server, IP camera, UPS, switch or any of those things has been added to cause this problem. We do not configure any of our devices to be unpingable because that would make the devices less managable. I can assure you this is not a duplicate IP issue

[Tom Elliott]

@szecca1 I don’t think @george1421 means a “conflict” in the terms of IP Addressing, but rather in logic.

If the FOG Server is not accessible VIA console, but can be pinged something is way off. The console is the only thing that should ALWAYS be accessible regardless of the state of network, services, or anything else. Even if you cannot do anything on the console, you should be able to see the server in it’s funked up state. The fact that the server is pingable, but you cannot access the console is conflicting, not that you have multiple ip addresses, or duplicates, or what have you.

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott said:

@szecca1 I don’t think @george1421 means a “conflict” in the terms of IP Addressing, but rather in logic.

Tom is right on, I was focusing on the logic of what you were saying which lead me to the duplicate IP address conclusion. Maybe I need to choose my words a bit better too.

While I don’t offer to do this very often, but since we have a similar virtualization environment, I can create a VM with FOG running on Centos 6.7. Assuming your boss will allow, I can export the vm and you can upload it to your ESXi platform. The only issue I have is if can I make the VM small enough to get it to you vi my dropbox.

[Wayne Workman]

@george1421 Google drive…

[szecca1]

@Tom-Elliott I agree this doesn’t make any sense. I wish I was making this up but in the end, I have no access to the server during the time that it is down until I tell vSphere to just reboot the VM. The console on vSphere is not able to commuincate and basically has the same result as when I try to use putty to remote in.
I can already tell you that my boss will not allow that, although I really do appreciate the offer. In a school district that would be too high of a security risk, unfortunately. Thank you though!

[Tom Elliott]

@szecca1 Is the OS installed with a GUI?

[Wayne Workman]

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/sn-switching-to-gui-login.html

[szecca1]

@Tom-Elliott No Fedora server doesnt have a GUI

[Tom Elliott]

@szecca1 then the only thing I can think of is the console is blanked out, not necessarily unusable. Do you have a keyboard that you can press the space or a key to see if anything returns a display?

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman Do you want me to do this?

[szecca1]

@Tom-Elliott Yes we tried entering something and nothing is returned at all

[szecca1]

@szecca1 I just walked in today and the server is not reachable. I figured before I reboot it I would see if you guys want me to do anything. I can ping the server and it responds but trying to putty into the server it just hangs and never connects.

[Wayne Workman]

@szecca1 Can you get to it through the hypervisor?

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman I apologize I was trying to get a hold of my boss to log onto vSphere. When I go to the console, it asks for localhost login and then gives an error:

(38484.938838) Out of memory: kill process 2739 (httpd) score 104 or sacrifice child
(38484.942704) killed process 2739 (httpd) total -vm:1247792kb, anon-rss: 412668kb, file-rss:0KB

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman I am holding off on rebooting for a little bit just so you guys can see that error message

[Wayne Workman]

@szecca1 It displays that error AT the login screen, or after?

[Wayne Workman]

@szecca1 Check the amount of free RAM.

free -m

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-check-memory-usage/

What does top say for memory usage in httpd?

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman as soon as the localhost login screen comes up, I click and that error message comes up.

[Wayne Workman]

@szecca1 said:

@Wayne-Workman I apologize I was trying to get a hold of my boss to log onto vSphere. When I go to the console, it asks for localhost login and then gives an error:

(38484.938838) Out of memory: kill process 2739 (httpd) score 104 or sacrifice child
(38484.942704) killed process 2739 (httpd) total -vm:1247792kb, anon-rss: 412668kb, file-rss:0KB

1247792KB + 412668KB = 1660460KB = 1660.46MB = 1.24GB

How much RAM does the server have?

[szecca1]

@Wayne-Workman I can’t type anything in as the screen wont allow me to even log into the machine until I reboot it