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<p>I've been forced to implement the following on a daily christmas
tree timer :/</p>
<p><font face="monospace">TODAY=$( date +%Y-%m-%d )<br>
logfile=/var/log/xymon/alert.log<br>
checkpointfile=/var/lib/xymon/tmp/alert.chk<br>
<br>
z=$( mktemp -p /tmp $0.XXXX )<br>
trap "rm -rf $z" exit<br>
<br>
# Restarting the daemon is the only way I have found <br>
# to generate the 'Stale' lines in the log file<br>
systemctl restart xymon<br>
sleep 120<br>
<br>
# find the stale hosts reported today in the log file<br>
# build a file containing 'delete' commands for sed<br>
egrep "^$TODAY ............... Stale alert " ${logfile} |cut -d
" " -f 6 \<br>
| tr ':' '|' | sed 's#^#/^# ; s#$#/d#' > ${z}<br>
<br>
# Delete the stale hosts from the checkpoint file while xymond
is stopped<br>
systemctl stop xymon && sed -i -f ${z} ${checkpointfile}
&& systemctl start xymon</font></p>
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<p>If anyone can offer any ideas into <i>why</i> my xymon isn't
purging dead alerts, I'd love to hear them.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov">John.Thurston@alaska.gov</a>
Department of Administration
State of Alaska</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/2022 9:04 AM, John Thurston
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:272ca0dc-73b2-a896-6d93-a6535b793b98@alaska.gov">
<p>My Xymon (Xymon 4.3.30-1.el7.terabithia) is no longer noticing
it is time to stop sending email alerts.</p>
<p>A customer will ping me, saying "I'm still getting emails for a
problem I fixed 10 days ago!"</p>
<p>I find the messages in question in the <i>notifications.log</i>
Yep, there are a lot of them. I can see the test recovered ages
ago, and there should no longer be notifications.<br>
</p>
<p>If I go look in <i>alert.chk</i>, I can see the host:test in
question</p>
<p>If I restart xymon, the <i>alert.log</i> will get a bunch of
lines "Stale alert found", but the lines remain in the <i>alert.chk</i></p>
<p>The only way I have figured out to clean this up is to grep the
'Stale' host:test pairs out of the <i>alert.log</i>, stop
xymon, feed the host:test pairs through sed to delete the
offending lines from <i>alert.chk</i>, and restart xymon.</p>
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<p>Anyone have any ideas what's wrong here?</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
--
Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:John.Thurston@alaska.gov" moz-do-not-send="true">John.Thurston@alaska.gov</a>
Department of Administration
State of Alaska</pre>
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