[Xymon] disable requests not staying in place

[Raymond Lee]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Raymond Lee <raylee88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an example to describe what Paul & I are seeing on our Xymon
> server.  Not only will the time-bound disables not stay in place, but
> the "disabled until" date seems to be a moving target!
>
> Example:
>
> - I disabled a test that was red at Nov. 16 11:02 CST for 1 hour, and
> the status page said "Disabled until Fri Nov 16 11:02:54 2012".  So
> that all looks fine.

Sorry, that should've been disabled at Nov. 16 10:02 CST (I work in EST)

> - I checked the status page a little bit later, and it said "Disabled
> until Sun Nov 18 17:58:06 2012".
> - Yet a little while later, the status page said "Disabled until Thu
> Apr 4 21:15:03 2013".
> - Wait a little more, and it said "Disabled until Fri Oct 12 09:14:06 2035"
>
> Eventually, the status page will say something crazy like "Disabled
> until Fri Feb 17 18:40:58 1939", and then the color will turn to red
> again.
>
> Has anyone else ever seen this behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've been noticing that last week or two that requests for disabling alerts for a set time do not stay blue. If we set it to 'until ok' they will stay blue. Before the last few weeks, it had been fine.
>>
>>
>> Our setup is a proxy updating the main system, due to firewall issues.  I have installed 'bluesync.sh', that will send disable/enable alerts down to the proxy.
>>
>> The machines are CentOS 5.8 virtual machines on VMWare ESXi 4.1 servers.  I'm running xymon 4.3.4.
>>
>> Any ideas.
>>
>>
>> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
>> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xymon mailing list
>> Xymon at xymon.com
>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon