[xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

[Larry Barber]

I'm not sure what you mean by "adding the mark".

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:

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> I had gone around adding the mark to the system loggers. It'd be good to
> have a better way, but that's the way that one had available when
> speaking of Big Brother.
>
> On 02/11/2011 01:33 PM, Larry Barber wrote:
> > Yes, I think that is exactly what's happening, but my understanding of
> > how msgs alerts work is that they are supposed to last for 1/2 hour (by
> > default) then go away. Having these alerts hang around for hours is
> > _not_ helpful, if nothing else they mask any new problem messages.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Larry Barber
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com
> > <mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so
> >     please take with a grain of salt.
> >
> >     If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
> >     possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the
> >     logs (has not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so
> >     it's still in the last 10240 range?
> >
> >     Tim
> >
> >
> >     ________________________________________
> >     From: Larry Barber [lebarber at gmail.com <mailto:lebarber at gmail.com>]
> >     Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
> >     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> >     Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing
> >
> >     I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was
> >     triggered over 2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even
> >     though no new alert-worthy messages have appeared in the message
> >     log. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0
> >     server, I'm not sure what the version of the client is since I don't
> >     have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be a good idea to
> >     include the Hobbit client version in the client data).
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >     Larry Barber
> >
> >
>
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