[Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata

[Torsten Richter]

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Ok, you seem to be right.
But what about a 'find -mtime +180 -type f' in that directory and remove
the files you'll get this way?

On 28.10.2013 10:31, Neil Simmonds wrote:
> I've had a look at that but it looks to me like that is for managing the /xymon/data/histlogs folder not the /xymon/data/hostdata folder.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Torsten Richter
>> Sent: 28 October 2013 09:16
>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata
>>
> Hi Neil,
> 
> take a look at the trimhistory command delivered with XYmon.
> I use it here to delete the history data older than a year.
> In addition I also have a script similar to the one on XYmonton that deletes the
> RRD files for hosts or tests that get no longer updated.
> 
> HTH
> Torsten
> 
> On 28.10.2013 09:47, Neil Simmonds wrote:
>>>> We've been getting some space issues recently on our /xymon filesystem. We
> don't really want to add more space so I am looking at implementing some
> housekeeping on the /xymon/data/hostdata folder.
>>>>
>>>> If I run a find command there are nearly 58000 files over 180 days old and I don't
> really think we need to keep client data from alerts older than that. Is there a built in
> way to manage this or is it a case of writing a script to manage it?
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