[Xymon] Stale Alerts

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 7:00 am, Bruno Deschamps wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Im looking in my alerts.log file and there is some Stale alerts like this:
>
>
> 2015-05-18 10:23:55 Stale alert for xxx:updates dropped
> 2015-05-18 10:23:55 Stale alert for xxx:cpu dropped
> 2015-05-18 10:23:55 Stale alert for xxx:procs dropped
> 2015-05-18 10:23:55 Stale alert for xxx:msgs dropped
> 2015-05-18 10:23:55 Stale alert for xxx:files dropped
>
> What means this Stale alert? Why this happens and how to avoid this
> messages?
>


Bruno,

A Stale is an alert that was occurring when xymond_alert last saved it's
snapshot but is no longer in an alerting state when it was started back
up.

This could be because it recovered while xymond was stopped, or the host
itself is no longer in the configuration.


Regards,

-jc