<html><body><p><font size="2">Tom,</font><br><br><font size="2">checked the links, and it looked like a similar problem at first sight, but does not describe my issue.</font><br><font size="2">My env is quite different:</font><br><br><font size="2">- my xymon runs in the xymon user homedir /home/xymon/server (freshly compiled from source with configure and make)</font><br><font size="2">- i have the correct xymond.chk and alert.chk in my $XYMONTMP (/home/xymon/server/tmp), which are still present after i stopped xymon</font><br><font size="2">- the settings in tasks.cfg for xymond and alert are correct (otherwise the chk files wouldn't be updated regularly)</font><br><br><font size="2">I have another Xymon installation (much smaller, but same design and version), where i verified this behaviour.</font><br><font size="2">So seems not related to the number of servers or the size of the chk files.</font><br><br><font size="2">My tasks.cfg settings:</font><br><br><font size="2">[xymond]<br></font><br><font size="2"> ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<br></font><br><font size="2"> CMD xymond --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.pid \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --restart=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --checkpoint-interval=600 \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.log \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$XYMONSERVERIP \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --ack-each-color \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --ghosts=match<br></font><br><br><font size="2">[alert]<br></font><br><font size="2"> ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<br></font><br><font size="2"> NEEDS xymond<br></font><br><font size="2"> CMD xymond_channel \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --channel=page \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/alert.log xymond_alert \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/alert.chk \<br></font><br><font size="2"> --checkpoint-interval=600<br></font><br><br><font size="2">Norbert</font><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=4EBB09AADFD930618f9e8a93df938690918c4EB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for me---11/02/2018 02:11:39 PM---On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Norbert Kriegenburg wrote: >"><font size="2" color="#424282">me---11/02/2018 02:11:39 PM---On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Norbert Kriegenburg wrote: ></font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">me@tdiehl.org</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">Norbert Kriegenburg <norbert.kriegenburg@de.ibm.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Cc: </font><font size="2">xymon@xymon.com</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">11/02/2018 02:11 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">On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Norbert Kriegenburg wrote:<br><br>><br>> Experts:<br>><br>> I have a new fairly large xymon environment (4.3.28 with >10k servers), andErik?<br>> of course there are always a lot of alerts acknowledged.<br>><br>> Unfortunately all these acks are resetted if i restart the xymon daemon<br>> (xymon.sh restart) to activate config changes f.e.<br>> This is the same if i use the "Acknowledge alert" from the menu or the<br>> (undocumented) "xymondack" feature of xymon.<br>> This leads to a lot of extra effort and confusion...<br>> Any ideas how i can save the ack situation and restore it after a restart?<br><br>You might want to have a look at these old threads. I remember this problem<br>because it bit me back then.<br><br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-March/037082.html">http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-March/037082.html</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br><br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-January/036721.html">http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-January/036721.html</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br><br>HTH,<br><br>-- <br>Tom me@tdiehl.org<br><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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