[Xymon] odd "failure" for file exists

[Root, Paul T]

Do you just have one xymon server?   Flapping implies to me that you are getting 2 different sources telling you something is happening.

Or is there 2 clients running and one didn’t get an update from the server (or running in client mode) that doesn’t have the lookup for the core file.

Or does the path to get there not allow the xymon user?

From: Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 3:05 PM
To: Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
Cc: xymon >> xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] odd "failure" for file exists

Actually, I have to correct myself...it's flapping and now I need to figure out why since that is a different problem.  To your point, Paul, that is essentially exactly what I have (obviously with different paths).  I suspect now it has to do with 'fetch'.

For example, in client-local.cfg:
file:`find /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ -maxdepth 1 -type f`

and analysis.cfg
FILE %/var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.* red NOEXIST

I may eventually change that to yellow but I just added a new app to the systems and it was supposed to behave :-).

=G=


On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 3:47 PM Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
I do this, but just go yellow, because that’s what we need.

client-local.cfg:file:`ls /core.*`
analysis.cfg:        FILE         %^/core.* YELLOW NOEXIST


From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>> On Behalf Of Galen Johnson
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 2:34 PM
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Subject: [Xymon] odd "failure" for file exists

Ok...this is weird.  I have Xymon triggering when a file (coredump) exists but it only turns red when a new file shows up...it should remain red until the files are cleaned up.  After the next update cycle it goes green yet the page shows that it sees the files.  Any thoughts on this behavior?  I have another "file exists" test that is behaving as expected (at least I think it is).

thanks

=G=
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