[Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata

Tue Oct 29 00:33:51 CET 2013

A 'find' script is what I just ended up setting up.
hostdata contains copies of client reports, which depending on the
client can be quote large... AFAIK there is no way of using them for
anything other than manually viewing on the filesystem. I decided to
keep 10% of them (the ones ending in 0) just in case...

#!/bin/sh
# number of days of logs to retain on disk
RETAINDAYS=30
export `bbcmd env 2>/dev/null | grep BBVAR=`
HOSTDATA=${BBVAR}/hostdata
find $HOSTDATA -type f \! -name \*0 -mtime +$RETAINDAYS -delete

> That's essentially what I'd thought of doing but I just wanted to check if there was a built in way
of doing it before I went ahead and wrote a script to run that kind of
command.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Torsten
Richter
> > Sent: 28 October 2013 09:43
> > To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata
> >
> 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 <mailto: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 deletes the RRD files for hosts or tests that get no longer updated.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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