[Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata

Mon Oct 28 11:06:33 CET 2013

That's essentially what I'd thought of doing but I just wanted to check if there was a built in way of doing it before I went ahead and wrote a script to run that kind of command.

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> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Torsten Richter
> Sent: 28 October 2013 09:43
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata
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> Ok, you seem to be right.
> But what about a 'find -mtime +180 -type f' in that directory and remove the files
> you'll get this way?
> 
> On 28.10.2013 10:31, Neil Simmonds wrote:
> > I've had a look at that but it looks to me like that is for managing the
> /xymon/data/histlogs folder not the /xymon/data/hostdata folder.
> >
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> >> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Torsten
> >> Richter
> >> Sent: 28 October 2013 09:16
> >> To: xymon at xymon.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Housekeeping on /xymon/data/hostdata
> >>
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > take a look at the trimhistory command delivered with XYmon.
> > I use it here to delete the history data older than a year.
> > In addition I also have a script similar to the one on XYmonton that
> > deletes the RRD files for hosts or tests that get no longer updated.
> >
> > HTH
> > Torsten
> >
> > On 28.10.2013 09:47, Neil Simmonds wrote:
> >>>> We've been getting some space issues recently on our /xymon
> >>>> filesystem. We
> > don't really want to add more space so I am looking at implementing
> > some housekeeping on the /xymon/data/hostdata folder.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I run a find command there are nearly 58000 files over 180 days
> >>>> old and I don't
> > really think we need to keep client data from alerts older than that.
> > Is there a built in way to manage this or is it a case of writing a script to manage
> it?
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