[Xymon] Connecting the "history" file dots...

[Mills, David (IS)]

Ah-ha! Thanks, Ryan. I checked your idea against the stamps of the last status changes for that host/test and found this:

$ tail /export/xymon/data/hist/pwmu002.cpu
Mon Nov  5 13:30:54 2012 green 1352143854 2333190
Sun Dec  2 13:37:24 2012 yellow 1354477044 1807		# Turned yellow on "Sun Dec  2 13:37:24 2012"
Sun Dec  2 14:07:31 2012 green 1354478851			# Turned green on "Sun Dec  2 14:07:31 2012"


The "13:37:24" and "14:07:31" stamp corresponds to the time stamps of the last two files in the ".../histlogs/pwmu002/cpu/" file:

ls -rt /export/xymon/data/histlogs/pwmu002/cpu/
<snip>
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Dec  2 13:37 Sun_Dec_2_13:37:24_2012
-rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Dec  2 14:07 Sun_Dec_2_14:07:31_2012


-----Original Message-----
From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:45 AM
To: Mills, David (IS)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] Connecting the "history" file dots...

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On 12/12/2012 12:43 PM, Mills, David (IS) wrote:
> Hi, All!
> 
> In poking around my data directory, I see a listing like this for the 
> "cpu" test data for one of my hosts:
> 
> $  ls -rt /export/xymon/data/histlogs/pwmu002/cpu/ total 61 
> drwxr-xr-x  22 hobbit   monitor       22 Dec 30  2010 ../ 
> -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Feb 17  2012 
> Fri_Feb_17_00:30:59_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K
> Feb 17  2012 Fri_Feb_17_01:51:10_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit
> monitor     1.9K Feb 25  2012 Sat_Feb_25_09:41:40_2012 -rw-r--r--
> 1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Feb 25  2012 Sat_Feb_25_12:52:12_2012 
> -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Jun 24 10:21 
> Sun_Jun_24_10:21:19_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.8K
> Jun 24 11:19 Sun_Jun_24_11:19:10_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit
> monitor     1.8K Jun 24 11:54 Sun_Jun_24_11:54:21_2012 -rw-r--r--
> 1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Nov  5 12:41 Mon_Nov_5_12:40:58_2012 
> -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K Nov  5 13:30 
> Mon_Nov_5_13:30:54_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit   monitor     1.9K
> Dec  2 13:37 Sun_Dec_2_13:37:24_2012 -rw-r--r--   1 hobbit
> monitor     1.9K Dec  2 14:07 Sun_Dec_2_14:07:31_2012
> 
> Each of these files is some sort of snapshot of the data displayed 
> when you click on the "cpu" icon for the indicated host in Xymon.
> 
> Why then, is the most recent data file a couple weeks old but the data 
> displayed for the "cpu" icon is current on the screen?

My immediate guess is because it has been green for a couple of weeks, and the "current" status is accessed a different way (not using history files).

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