[Xymon] Strange behaviour: summary reports purple while test details is OK
Andrey Chervonets
A.Chervonets at cominder.eu
Thu Jul 11 08:36:47 CEST 2013
But question N2 is still actual:
How should I (or should I?) merge data for under old and new hostnames
under data/hostdata ?
will it be just enough move content of data/hostdata/oldhost/* to
data/hostdata/newhost/* ?
> By the way, I had found on both XyMon servers there are still
> directories for old nad new hostnames under xymon/data/hostdata/
> old host data not updated any more, but new ones only.
> Question N2: Is it expected or after xymon "rename ... " call all
> should be merged into one directory per host?
Andrey Chervonets/Cominder/LV wrote on 2013.07.11 09:30:54:
> From: Andrey Chervonets/Cominder/LV
> To: xymon at xymon.com,
> Date: 2013.07.11 09:30
> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour: summary reports purple while test
> details is OK
>
> 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
> ----------------------
> SIA CoMinder
> http://www.cominder.eu/
> 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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