<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39508"><span>Well, I figured it out.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39507"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39506"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39505">I uninstalled and reinstalled xymon server to see if using all stock would help and it didn't. All I added back into hosts.cfg was ONLY the IPs and hostnames with no page definitions.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39488"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39522"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39521">It was then either one of two things that I noticed (I didn't wait long enough between doing both of them to know which one fixed it...)</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39523"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39530">First: I commented out the default </span>#directory<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39533"> </span>/etc/xymon/hosts.d line (because I noticed everything above was working and everything below was not) and then I noticed something else while waiting for it to update:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524">In my history.log there was a bunch of lines: 2016-03-13 00:15:10.061160 Cannot create /var/lib/xymon/histlogs/someservername/cpu: File exists (someservername was one of the offenders)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524">So I went and deleted everything in /var/lib/xymon/histlogs</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><br>After that everything magically started to appear on the main page. I believe it was deleting the directories in histlogs that fixed it because they didn't all come back at once, they came back a few at a time (just as my winscp was deleting the directories serially instead of all at once) but that could be the client updates were coming in at different times as well *shrug*.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524">I'm sure it was something I did wrong but it was extremely frustrating to say the least. Perhaps Xymon could try to append (is that appropriate for those files?) in such a situation instead of just logging an error and giving up?</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39524">Thanks for all your help everyone that tried.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39409"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39414" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39413"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39412"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39411"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39410"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39668"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Thurston <john.thurston@alaska.gov><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "xymon@xymon.com" <xymon@xymon.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 11, 2016 7:26 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xymon] strange behavior<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_39415"><br>On 3/11/2016 3:00 PM, Jason Brockdorf wrote:<br clear="none">> 0.0.0.0 .default.# NOCOLUMNS:files<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> 127.0.0.1hhsiamxymon # bbd <a shape="rect" href="http://localhost/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_40071">http://localhost/</a><br clear="none">> 123.32.139.15cent5vm # my test client @ home<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This concerns me a little. The # is not a comment delimiter in this <br clear="none">context. I have no idea what xymonnet is going to do the those tags. If <br clear="none">you want comments, put them on the line above.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't like the non-qualified domain names, but that shouldn't prevent <br clear="none">this stuff from working. If you really are using short-names, I suggest <br clear="none">putting an explicit TESTIP in your .default. line. Again, it shouldn't <br clear="none">be the cause of your breakage, but it would be a good idea.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- snip -<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> page prod-httpservers A bunch of HTTP servers<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Have you tried this without the hypen in the page name?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> group-only conn|cpu|memory|disk|info|ports|procs|sslcert|clientlog HTTP<br clear="none"><br clear="none">re-using the group name should not cause any trouble.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">if you run<br clear="none"> xymoncmd xymoncfg --web<br clear="none">or<br clear="none"> xymoncmd xymoncfg --net<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is the hosts.cfg correctly parsed?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you run<br clear="none"> xymoncmd xymonnet --no-update hhsce4aveimwst1<br clear="none">does the output look reasonable?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is there anything interesting in xymond.log ?<div class="yqt2285707297" id="yqtfd53355"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"> Do things because you should, not just because you can.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">John Thurston 907-465-8591<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov" href="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_40072">John.Thurston@alaska.gov</a><br clear="none">Enterprise Technology Services<br clear="none">Department of Administration<br clear="none">State of Alaska<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Xymon mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_40073">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457737557649_40074">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>