[Xymon] Strange behaviour: summary reports purple while test details is OK

[Andrey Chervonets]

At last I had found solution myself:

stop XyMon both on client and server
and remove all files under XyMon tmp directory:
alert.chk
alert.chk.sub
xymond.chk 
and others 

I am not sure which exactly file was wrong ( I suppose it was xymond.chk 
on server), but now it is working.
The only backside effect - all metrics status last change time reset so 
all metric images are with "round"  smiling gifs.


Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets
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Andrey Chervonets/Cominder/LV wrote on 2013.07.08 19:32:54:

> From: Andrey Chervonets/Cominder/LV
> To: xymon at xymon.com, 
> Date: 2013.07.08 19:32
> Subject: Strange behaviour: summary reports purple while test details is 
OK
> 
> Good day! 
> 
> We had renamed 2 hosts today and renamed all (I hope) at host level 
> and in XyMon config and restarted XyMon server and clients too.
> Rename in XyMon was done as:
> a) changes records in hosts.cfg
> b) xymon 127.0.0.1:port  "rename OLD_HOST  NEW_HOST"
> 
> Now XyMon Server  (4.3.11) - generates purple for 1st host in non-
> green and group reports while every test details shows green, 
> yellow, red and so on what is expected.
> the same server - generates normal reports for 2nd host renames
> 
> We have 2 XyMon server for High Availability and clients send info to 
both.
> The 2nd XyMon Server (4.3.4) - generate normal reports for both renamed 
hosts.
> 
> So, question N 1 is - how to find where is the problem?
> This only thing I had found in info report (which with trends are 
> always green by the way) 
> is that different status for the same metric is reported with 
> minimal interval delta (~ 10 min which may be time since hostname 
> change and xymon client restart and when "rename" was called at XyMon 
server.
> For example:
> Status summary:
> 
> Color Service  Since   Duration
> ------- ------ ---------------------------------------- 
> -------------------------------------------
> greed  cpu Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
> purple  cpu Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
> greed  disk Mon Jul 08 18:24:07 2013 0 days, 00 hours, 48 minutes
> purple  disk Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
> yellow  files Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
> purple  files Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
> greed  memory Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
> purple  memory Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
> greed  msgs Mon Jul 08 14:14:29 2013 0 days, 04 hours, 57 minutes
> purple  msgs Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
> 
> This mean XyMon counts summary for 2 hostnames - new one (with info 
> received just after hostname rename)  and old one, but renamed to new 
name.
> 
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