I'm running Xymon 4.3.12-2 server (yeah, I know ...) on my management system. (RHEL 6.5 currently)
A couple of days ago I migrated our central syslog server over to the Xymon server, so now "/var/log/messages" is getting a ton of stuff in it that it never had before since all my systems are now reporting in to it.
Ever since then I've seen something weird - every hour (for about 17+ hours) I was getting RED alerts for the management console's own "msgs" status, but the actual e-mail notifications don't show anything marked red in them!
It's either yellow or, as in the forwarded message below, green. I have no idea why I was getting RED alerts for this file if it thinks it's yellow or green - any ideas?
The only other thing I can add is that when I go to the Web page for mgmtconsole:msgs, it says "WARNING: Flapping status" at the top.
Is that a clue?
(Update: interestingly, it looks like the status has finally changed to green a few minutes ago - after having been red for nearly 17 1/2 hours. Still seeing "WARNING: Flapping status" on the svcstatus Web page, though.)
Thanks,
- GregBegin forwarded message:
From: xymon Monitor <xymon at mgmtconsole.my.do.ma.in> Subject: Xymon [750466] mgmtconsole:msgs CRITICAL (RED) Date: February 11, 2016 at 11:57:25 AM PST To: sysadmins at mgmtconsole.my.do.ma.in
green Thu Feb 11 11:57:24 PST 2016 - Log files ok <pre> </pre>
No entries in <a href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=mgmtconsole&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages">/var/log/messages</a>
Full log <a href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=mgmtconsole&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages">/var/log/messages</a> <...SKIPPED...> Feb 11 11:57:17 host7 nrpe[20194]: [ID 927837 daemon.info] connect from mtfuji
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See http://mgmtconsole/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=mgmtconsole&SERVICE=msgs