[Xymon] Migrating Existing Disabled Tests When Migrating Xymon to New Server?

[Ralph Mitchell]

I wrote a script for copying blue status messages, way back.  As is the way
of these things, T.J.Yang improved on it:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Replicate_blue_record_from_Xymon_A_to_Xymon_B


Ralph Mitchell



On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Matt Vander Werf <mvanderw at nd.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are in the process of preparing to migrate our existing/current Xymon
> server (running 4.3.10 from source on RHEL 5) onto a new Xymon server
> (running 4.3.21-4.el7.terabithia from Terabithia RPM on RHEL 7). I was able
> to find some really helpful and great stuff in the list archives regarding
> migrating tips and just general help in getting the new server set up, and
> I greatly appreciate all of that!!
>
> However, I was wondering if there was a way to migrate existing Disabled
> tests' statuses/info (i.e. we have X machine currently disabled for XYZ
> tests until some date or for a certain amount of time, Y machine disabled
> for YZ tests for Z amount of time, etc., etc.) from our current Xymon
> server to our new Xymon server, so I won't have to disable all the tests on
> the new Xymon server by hand after the migration is complete? While
> possible to put them in all by hand, I'd rather not have to if there is way
> to migrate that info over! ;)
>
> Is this possible to do? Or will I have to just put in the disabled tests
> by hand?
>
> I wasn't able to really find much in the list archives that really fully
> answers my question. I did find this in the list archives:
> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2005-November/004600.html, which looks
> like it could be of use (even though I'm not migrating from BB). However,
> it looks like my disabled directory in the Xymon data directory on our
> current Xymon server is completely empty, even though we have quite a few
> disabled tests in place on the system. (Is this normal?)
> Is there by chance another place where the disabled tests info might be
> located on disk? Or is there a way to grab all the current disabled tests
> info and put that info into one of more files on disk for use with the
> attached script in the above archived message link?
>
> Any guidance or assistance is greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> --
> Matt Vander Werf
>
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