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<div>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):</div>
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<div> 16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.* -1 "</div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;">16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime"</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">trends|green|0</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">info|green|0</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">memory|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">files|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">msgs|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">ports|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">procs|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">disk|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">cpu|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">prtdiag|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">nfs|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">raid|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">tm|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">conn|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">sar|blue|-1</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">iostat2|blue|-1</div>
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<div> then, about one minute later, I see my first “rebel” test (“conn”) flip itself back to non-disabled:</div>
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<div style="padding-left:36pt;">16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep –v blue</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">trends|green|0</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">info|green|0</div>
<div style="padding-left:36pt;">conn|green|0</div>
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<div>It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their “blue” status and return to green.</div>
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<div>On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do the job more permanently:</div>
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<div>17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.msgs -1 "</div>
<div>17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.files -1 "</div>
<div>17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.ports -1 "</div>
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<div>Help?</div>
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</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>David Mills</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
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</span></font>david.mills@ngc.com<font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
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