[Xymon] "Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?

[Mills, David (IS)]

All -

For some reason many (all?) hosts are currently impervious to being disabled from the CLI if I use the "*" wildcard for the TESTNAME value. According to the xymon man page, I should be able "...To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME." All tests for this host should go "blue" and stay in this state indefinitely (right?). However, I see this  (timestamps in the prompts):

        16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "disable twau009.* -1 "

      16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime"
      trends|green|0
      info|green|0
      memory|blue|-1
      files|blue|-1
      msgs|blue|-1
      ports|blue|-1
      procs|blue|-1
      disk|blue|-1
      cpu|blue|-1
      prtdiag|blue|-1
      nfs|blue|-1
      raid|blue|-1
      tm|blue|-1
      conn|blue|-1
      sar|blue|-1
      iostat2|blue|-1

   then, about one minute later, I see my first "rebel" test ("conn") flip itself back to non-disabled:

      16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep -v blue
      trends|green|0
      info|green|0
      conn|green|0

It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their "blue" status and return to green.

On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do the job more permanently:

17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "disable twau009.msgs -1 "
17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "disable twau009.files -1 "
17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server  "disable twau009.ports -1 "

Help?

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David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
512-595-1238
david.mills at ngc.com



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