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I do really long times (like 999 weeks). That's basically indefinite. <br></font><br> <br>
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<b>From</b>: Mills, David (IS) [mailto:David.Mills@ngc.com]
<br><b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 06:27 PM<br><b>To</b>: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell@gmail.com>
<br><b>Cc</b>: xymon@xymon.com <xymon@xymon.com>
<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [Xymon] EXT :Re: "Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, … that’s embarrassing. So – there’s no way to indefinitely disable a test? Sorry – I feel like I’m missing a boat here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">;-) Thanks, Ralph!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mills, David (IS)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> EXT :Re: [Xymon] "Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Mar 26, 2013 6:15 PM, "Mills, David (IS)" <<a href="mailto:David.Mills@ngc.com">David.Mills@ngc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> All –<br>
> <br>
> For some reason many (all?) hosts are currently impervious to being disabled from the CLI if I use the “*” wildcard for the TESTNAME value. According to the xymon man page, I should be able “…To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME.”
All tests for this host should go “blue” and stay in this state indefinitely (right?). However, I see this (timestamps in the prompts):<br>
> <br>
> 16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.* -1 "<br>
> <br>
> 16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime"<br>
> trends|green|0<br>
> info|green|0<br>
> memory|blue|-1<br>
> files|blue|-1<br>
> msgs|blue|-1<br>
> ports|blue|-1<br>
> procs|blue|-1<br>
> disk|blue|-1<br>
> cpu|blue|-1<br>
> prtdiag|blue|-1<br>
> nfs|blue|-1<br>
> raid|blue|-1<br>
> tm|blue|-1<br>
> conn|blue|-1<br>
> sar|blue|-1<br>
> iostat2|blue|-1<br>
> <br>
> then, about one minute later, I see my first “rebel” test (“conn”) flip itself back to non-disabled:<br>
> <br>
> 16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep –v blue<br>
> trends|green|0<br>
> info|green|0<br>
> conn|green|0<br>
> <br>
> It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their “blue” status and return to green.<br>
> <br>
> On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do the job more permanently:<br>
> <br>
> 17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.msgs -1 "<br>
> 17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.files -1 "<br>
> 17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.ports -1 "<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think you'll find that "-1" means "until OK", so when a green report comes in, that flips it out of the blue state.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Ralph Mitchell<o:p></o:p></p>
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