[Xymon] strange history issue

[White, Bruce]

Xymon is working as expected.  "Purple" equals "no report" and a "white"
status equals "no data".  They both represent a situation where data is
not making it to the Xymon server.  It appears that the network outage
cut-off communications to the Xymon server.  This results in lots of
"red" conn tests and lots of purple and white because no reports made it
to the server or no data was available.


   ......Bruce


 
Bruce White
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Mike Burger
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 7:09 AM
To: Torsten Richter
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] strange history issue

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> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't think this will work for me since everything is showing green 
> at the moment just the history seems to be messed up. But nevertheless

> I will give it a try.
>
> Cheers
> Torsten
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> On 07.01.2013 17:52, Mike Burger wrote:
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>>> Hi XYmonians and XYmonettes,
>>>
>>> I'am running an self-compiled XYmon 4.3.7 on Debian 6.
>>> Last week the company I'm working for at the moment experienced a 
>>> big network outage.
>>> After 2 hours everything came back online and XYmon started to get 
>>> back to green again.
>>> Today I saw on a lot of tests, when I click on the "History" button,

>>> that they show "clear" or "purple" since the outage although the 
>>> became "green" again after the network issue was fixed.
>>> I also saw in data/histlogs/<SERVER>/<TEST> that the last entry 
>>> there is the one from the time of the outage when the test went 
>>> "clear" or "purple".
>>> Has this ever happened to someone else and if so, how did you fix
it?
>>> Or is this a problem with my version that has been fixed in a later 
>>> one?
>>
>> I had a similar issue...I've got an Ubuntu 8 VM running hobbit-client

>> 4.2.0. Over the weekend, the VM server was inadvertently rebooted, 
>> resulting in the VM being restarted. I found that even though the 
>> hobbit client was running, all of the items except for conn, info and

>> trend were purple. I restarted the hobbit-client process on the VM, 
>> and everything went back to their normal states.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to recover that
history...it's communicated to the the server by the client.

The vmstat data is collected in 5 minute increments, and only a max of 2
collections at a time...anything older is removed.

If the client wasn't communicating back to the server and passing the
vmstat data along, there isn't any way (that I've seen) to recover and
transmit the old data.
--
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

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