[Xymon] Historical status log not available

[Ralph M]

I think Xymon stops keeping historical logs when the filesystem where it
lives reaches 95% full.  If that's the case, you'll either need to expand
the filesystem, or clean out old logs.

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 9:44 PM Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org> wrote:

> Also, this can happen when the filesystem is running out of space or
> inodes. Try running "df -h" and "df -hi" on the partition where the history
> logs are stored. Perhaps:
>
> xymoncmd df -h '$XYMONHISTLOGS'
> xymoncmd df -hi '$XYMONHISTLOGS'
>
> and look for Use% and IUse% close to 100%
>
> J
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 12:25, Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org> wrote:
>
>> Jose
>>
>> The event history comes from files in the histlogs directory (defined in
>> XYMONHISTLOGS in xymonserver.cfg). If you've removed the contents of
>> histlogs to clean up space, you'll see this problem, at least initially.
>>
>> Files are created by the xymond_history process, launched from tasks.cfg:
>>
>> $ *grep xymond_history /etc/xymon/tasks.cfg*
>>         CMD xymond_channel --channel=stachg
>> --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/history.log *xymond_history *
>> --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond_history.pid
>>
>> If this task/process is not running, you'll have no history. Or if the
>> process doesn't have permission to write to the histfile directory, you'll
>> also have no history. Perhaps take a look at the history.log and see if the
>> process it's complaining.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 06:32, jhornela <jhornelas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Good afternoon
>>> It is not displaying the event history in the xymon it sends the
>>> following message
>>>
>>> Historical status log not available
>>>
>>> It is not generating the event logs, I already checked the xymon path on
>>> the server and there is no file, for some reason it is not being generated.
>>> any suggestion please !!!
>>>
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