[Xymon] BB to Xymon - "[machine].net stopped reporting (PURPLE)" alerts

[Henrik Størner]

> Now I've completed the transition and Big Brother has been shut off
> everywhere.  As a result for these 4 particular hosts that had BB
> restarted, now Xymon is complaining hourly with
>
> Subject: Xymon [NNNNNNN] [machine].net stopped reporting (PURPLE)
>
> messages containing the last "netstat -i" output it received.
>
> I thought the raw data sent from a Xymon client already included
> "netstat -i" output, so I thought the server would just get that
> info from the clients now?

It does, but Xymon won't remove that old status automatically. You must 
explicitly drop the "net" status column to remove it, since it is no 
longer being updated. Run

    xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME net"

and the "net" column for that host will disappear, along with the alerts.


Regards,
Henrik