[Xymon] no reports because of full root disk - workaround

[Henrik Størner]

Your Xymon monitor should flag the status as purple, due to missing 
updates from the client.

Regards,
Henrik

Christoph Zechner skrev den 22-10-2021 09:47:

> Hi,
> 
> a while ago, we encountered a rather annoying problem: if the root disk 
> of our Linux servers got full between two xymon checks, we were not 
> notified, because xymon was not able to report this, due to to 
> remaining space. It did not matter whether the machine was in xymon 
> local mode or not (we wanted to be sure).
> 
> We then found a workaround for this problem:
> 
> * creating a ramdisk (10 MB should suffice)
> * mount it as /var/lib/xymon/temp (unlike "tmp" originally)
> * change the tmp location in xymonclient.cfg
> * restart xymon-client
> 
> This allows the system to send reports even if the root disk is 
> completely full and there's no need for repartitioning or adding other 
> disks.
> 
> Any thoughts about that? Are there any repercussions I did not think 
> about? I'd love to hear your opinions.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Cheers
> Christoph
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