<html><body><p><font size="2">Don't get me wrong: i don't do frequent restarts usually, but from time to time i need a restart, or the whole server must be restarted bc. of patches.</font><br><font size="2">And as i constantly have to add new checks with new NCV definitions the TEST2RRD and SPLITNCV settings in xymonserver.cfg changes, this needs also a restart.</font><br><font size="2"> </font><br><font size="2">Because we have such a huge numer of servers a lot of departments use Xymon regularly (luckily), and use the ack mechanism to organize their work (add ticket number to an alert, do some evaluation reports and so on).</font><br><font size="2">To have >100 alerts ack'ed is normal situation.</font><br><font size="2">And it creates a lot of extra work to restore this.</font><br><font size="2">In old BB times the acks always survived downtimes and restarts, but now there are no more ack files stored in the acks dir, so i thought it would be restored from the info in the alert.chk file, what is not the case.</font><br><br><font size="2">Norbert</font><br><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=4EBB09ABDFD1A4AB8f9e8a93df938690918c4EB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for EDSchminke---11/01/2018 12:58:35 PM---What config changes are you making that requires such frequent "><font size="2" color="#424282">EDSchminke---11/01/2018 12:58:35 PM---What config changes are you making that requires such frequent restarts? Changes to hosts.cfg, alert</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">EDSchminke@Hormel.com</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">xymon@xymon.com</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">11/01/2018 12:58 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [Xymon] acknowledgements does not survive xymon restart</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2"><br>What config changes are you making that requires such frequent restarts?<br><br>Changes to hosts.cfg, alerts.cfg, analysis.cfg, client-local.cfg; these are<br>files that get changed most frequently in my environment. None of which<br>require a restart to pick up the changes. I think the only one that *does*<br>need a restart, would be xymonserver.cfg, and the only component that would<br>need to be restarted would be xymond, not the full stack.<br><br>Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer<br>Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912<br>Phone: (507) 434-6817<br>edschminke@hormel.com | </font></tt><tt><font size="2">www.hormelfoods.com</font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br><br><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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