[Xymon] disable requests not staying in place

[Carl Melgaard]

Hi,

I think I know whats happening, because I had the exact same problem on 4.3.4 with bluesync :)

The reason why the target date is moving, is because either Xymon or bluesync calculates in seconds and the other does not - if I remember correctly, I had to correct bluesync, so that it actually converts the minutes from Xymon to seconds or visa versa.

Something like this:

NEW:           lifetime=`$EXPR ${lifetime} / 60`
OLD:           lifetime="$lifetime"s

Regards,

Carl Melgaard

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] På vegne af Raymond Lee
Sendt: 16. november 2012 17:26
Til: Root, Paul
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Emne: Re: [Xymon] disable requests not staying in place

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.
- 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
>
>
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