[Xymon] Cleaning up history logs

[Michael Beatty]

What does Xymon check to determine if my history logs directory is full?

After several months of not paying any attention to Xymon, I dove back 
in.  I found that I was getting "Historical Status Log Not Avaialable".  
Some browsing around showed that if the log directory has less than 5% 
disk space available, the logs will not be written.  I "df -i 
/home/xymon/data/histlog" directory and it was (and still) is showing 4% 
used.  Unsure what to get rid of, I deleted everything I could find in 
the data directory that related to old hosts that do not exist.  After 
doing so, log files were now available.

Obviously, there was a disk space problem, but where was it?  This is 
just a demo system so I wasn't too worried about doing such a 
destructive deletion of everything, however, if this were a production 
system I'd want to be a lot more careful as to what it is that I 
delete.  Would I just delete everything in the histlog directory that is 
 >  X days old?


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Michael Beatty
Sherwin-Williams
IT Analyst/Developer
michael.beatty at sherwin.com
216-515-7374