<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Norbert,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as I can not remember that I encountered this I just tested this (in a mini setup, xymon 4.3.28 on Debian9) and my 2 acks survived the xymon-restart.</div><div class="">As your environment is fairly large this could be size/load problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Random ideas:</div><div class="">- is the restart “clean” or does something crash during the stop-phase (logfiles)?</div><div class="">- you could try is to manually force writing a checkpoint-file by sending SIGUSR1 to xymond before restart.</div><div class="">- if you have a redundant/multi-server setup: Is there any chance that an other xymon-server is propagating incomplete state (`xymond_distribute` not enabled)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best</div><div class="">Thomas</div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 01 Nov 2018, at 13:16, Norbert Kriegenburg <<a href="mailto:norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com" class="">norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><p class=""><font size="2" class="">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 class=""><font size="2" class="">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 class=""><font size="2" class=""> </font><br class=""><font size="2" class="">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 class=""><font size="2" class="">To have >100 alerts ack'ed is normal situation.</font><br class=""><font size="2" class="">And it creates a lot of extra work to restore this.</font><br class=""><font size="2" class="">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 class=""><br class=""><font size="2" class="">Norbert</font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:1__=4EBB09ABDFD1A4AB8f9e8a93df938690918c4EB@"><graycol.gif></span><font size="2" color="#424282" class="">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 class=""><br class=""><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" class="">From: </font><font size="2" class=""><a href="mailto:EDSchminke@hormel.com" class="">EDSchminke@Hormel.com</a></font><br class=""><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" class="">To: </font><font size="2" class=""><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" class="">xymon@xymon.com</a></font><br class=""><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" class="">Cc: </font><font size="2" class=""><a href="mailto:norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com" class="">norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com</a></font><br class=""><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" class="">Date: </font><font size="2" class="">11/01/2018 12:58 PM</font><br class=""><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" class="">Subject: </font><font size="2" class="">Re: [Xymon] acknowledgements does not survive xymon restart</font><br class=""></p><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade="" style="color:#8091A5; " class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><tt class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class="">What config changes are you making that requires such frequent restarts?<br class=""><br class="">Changes to hosts.cfg, alerts.cfg, analysis.cfg, client-local.cfg; these are<br class="">files that get changed most frequently in my environment. None of which<br class="">require a restart to pick up the changes. I think the only one that *does*<br class="">need a restart, would be xymonserver.cfg, and the only component that would<br class="">need to be restarted would be xymond, not the full stack.<br class=""><br class="">Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer<br class="">Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912<br class="">Phone: (507) 434-6817<br class=""><a href="mailto:edschminke@hormel.com" class="">edschminke@hormel.com</a> | </font></tt><tt class=""><font size="2" class=""><a href="http://www.hormelfoods.com" class="">www.hormelfoods.com</a></font></tt><tt class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font></tt><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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