[Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems

[Tres Finocchiaro]

@Jeremy,


> This is a bug in Samba.  Refer:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1257186
>
> This is entirely unrelated to Xymon.
>

Terrific, thank you.



> If you don't have "telnet" listed for a host/device in hosts.cfg, or in
> the ".default." entry, then Xymon should not include it in its service
> checks.
>

 OK, this is where I'm struggling.  We have a separate host group for our
switches:


group-sorted UFIRST Switches
> 0.0.0.0         .default.       # NOCOLUMNS:telnet
> 192.168.0.5      SWITCH1        # ssh


But originally had had:

192.168.0.5      SWITCH1        # telnet


We followed the instructions for purging the history:

xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop SWITCH1 telnet"


But we still received alerts.

red  Wed Sep  3 09:26:38 2014 telnet NOT ok
> Service telnet on SWITCH1 is not OK : Service unavailable (Connection
> refused)
> Seconds: 0.00

So I tried filtering it in the alerts.cfg:


HOST=%* SERVICE=%*
>         MAIL tres at company.local EXSERVICE=telnet


But now we aren't receiving any alerts at all.

To verify it's not an email settings:

mail -s "Test Email" tres at company.local < /dev/null


Which succeeds.

The only part I did not mention is that some of our hosts were renamed from
lowercase to uppercase for aesthetics.
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