[Xymon] Where does xymon store info on currently blue servers?

[Betsy Schwartz]

Thanks, that was definitely it

2,936 files in that temp dir and two were important.

thanks Betsy


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>wrote:

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>
> On Wed, September 25, 2013 8:10 am, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
> > I restarted xymon and apache  after emptying /usr/local/xymon/server/tmp,
> > among other things
> >
> > A few minutes later, received a cascade of messages because every signle
> > server that had been  signed out was now signed back in.
> >
> > Where does xymon get the information, on restart, about what is currently
> > signed out?
>
> > Is that stored in the server's tmp dir?
>
>
> (Given that the dir is in /usr/local, I'm assuming this is a custom
> compile....)
>
> xymond on save and restart looks at what it's given with the
> --checkpoint-file and --restart options, which is often set to something
> in $XYMONTMP, but really can be anywhere. It should be somewhere that's
> safe across a reboot (learned that the hard way), so transient or tmpfs
> storage is a bad location.
>
> Check your command line, but I'd bet it was named "xymond.chk" in the dir
> you emptied.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> -jc
>
>
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