[Xymon] Disk space test ignored

[David Boyer]

JC,
    Would we be able to see the GROUP= when running the xymond_client
--dump-config?
I need to send out emails to different groups and I was trying to use the
GROUP= and it's not
working.  I posted this about a week ago and got no hits.

Dave

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:45 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, April 5, 2016 12:14 pm, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I recently upgraded from 4.3.21 to the Terabithia RPM's for 4.3.27.  I
> > copied this config file verbatim (except for server name) from my old
> > server to my new server:
> >
> >
> > HOST=innocent.in.hq
> >         PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]80)$" MIN=1  TRACK=WWW "TEXT=80-WWW"
> >         PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]55000)$" MIN=0 color=red TRACK=RPC_Clients
> > "TEXT=55000-RPC Client Access Sessions"
> >         SVC MSExchangeADTopology status=started
> >         SVC MSExchangeIS status=started
> >         SVC MSExchangeMailboxAssistants status=started
> >         SVC MSExchangeRPC status=started
> >         SVC MSExchangeSA status=started
> >         DISK J 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK L 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK M 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK N 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK S 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK T 15728640U 10485760U
> >         DISK %^(1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0).* IGNORE
> >
> >
> > However, the disk tests are now alerting on 95% full disk instead of on
> 10
> > gigs remaining space:
> > M (95% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%)
> >
> > To further troubleshoot I commented out all the disk lines and added this
> > entry:
> > DISK * 15728640U 10485760U
> >
> > That didn't make any difference, the disk is still alerting for 95% full.
> > It is parsing and applying the configuration because the port and SVC
> > information is showing up in the web, so I can't understand why the disk
> > test isn't working.
> >
> >
> > This is a key feature for us as we have many servers with multi-terabyte
> > drives, so alerting at percentages doesn't work nearly as well.  The
> > client has not been touched, only the server.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
>
>
> Some possibilities:
>
> Did you wait for xymond_client to reload analysis.cfg after the change?
> Alternatively, did you remove/reorder the DISK sections or comment them
> out in place? It's possible the catchall entry wasn't applied and what was
> actually alerting was the default DISK section.
>
> Can you run xymond_client --dump-config after the change to see what's
> happening?
>
>
> -jc
>
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