[Xymon] dropping/making blue checks not persistent when restarting

[Jeremy Laidman]

Make sure xymond can (and does) update it's checkpoint file. See the man
page for more info about the checkpoint file.

J


On 19 May 2017 23:00, "Sven Schuster" <Schuster.Sven at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> recently I've been seeing a strange issue on xymon server. When I make a
> check blue and shortly after xymon gets restarted due to configuration
> updates, that blue check will be green again afterwards. The same thing
> happens when a check is dropped and xymon gets restarted directly after
> that: the dropped check reappears.
> If you wait some amount of time before restarting, say 5-10 minutes, the
> problem won't appear and everything will be fine. I also sync'ed on the
> server directly after making a check blue and before restarting (to avoid
> data not being written to disk for some strange reason), which
> unfortunately did not help.
> Environment is xymon 4.3.27 on Debian jessie. Xymon has been updated to
> 4.3.28 because of this problem lately, with the problem appearing in
> 4.3.28, too. This server has just been upgraded from Debian wheezy to
> Jessie a few weeks ago. On wheezy xymon 4.3.27 was in use but didn't show
> this behaviour.
>
> Did anybody notice such an odd behaviour or maybe have any thoughts
> regarding possible causes?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sven
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xymon mailing list
> Xymon at xymon.com
> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20170520/7ab76693/attachment.html>