[Xymon] Decommissioned systems showing in ghosts

[Colin Coe]

Thanks, I'll see if this gets me what I need.

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 19:08, Adam Thorn <alt36 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 03/01/2023 03:08, Colin Coe wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I decommissioned (i.e. physically removed) a bunch of Cisco switches
> > some time ago but I see that they are still showing in the ghost report.
> >
> > I've checked hosts.cfg and devmon's hosts db but can't find them.
>
> The ghost report tells you which IP sent the message to xymon, so you
> should check there.
>
> If you want to see the full message sent (which will let you see the
> full content of the status messages including which test is being
> reported), then on your xymon server:
>
> xymoncmd xymon_channel --channel=status --filter=hostname.example.com
> tee /tmp/debug
>
> Note that the final arguments ("tee /tmp/debug") can be anything which
> reads stdin, and the argument to --filter is a PCRE. If you leave off
> --filter you'll see every status message being sent to your xymon server
> which could be somewhat overwhelming! You'll need to leave the command
> running until whatever is sending the ghost reports has sent a message,
> of course, whereupon you can hit ctrl-c.
>
> Adam
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