Well, ... that's embarrassing. So - there's no way to indefinitely disable a test? Sorry - I feel like I'm missing a boat here.
;-) Thanks, Ralph!
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:25 PM To: Mills, David (IS) Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] "Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?
On Mar 26, 2013 6:15 PM, "Mills, David (IS)" <David.Mills at ngc.com<mailto:David.Mills at ngc.com>> wrote:
All -
For some reason many (all?) hosts are currently impervious to being disabled from the CLI if I use the "*" wildcard for the TESTNAME value. According to the xymon man page, I should be able "...To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME." All tests for this host should go "blue" and stay in this state indefinitely (right?). However, I see this (timestamps in the prompts):
16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.* -1 "16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" trends|green|0 info|green|0 memory|blue|-1 files|blue|-1 msgs|blue|-1 ports|blue|-1 procs|blue|-1 disk|blue|-1 cpu|blue|-1 prtdiag|blue|-1 nfs|blue|-1 raid|blue|-1 tm|blue|-1 conn|blue|-1 sar|blue|-1 iostat2|blue|-1
then, about one minute later, I see my first "rebel" test ("conn") flip itself back to non-disabled:
16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server "xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep -v blue trends|green|0 info|green|0 conn|green|0
It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their "blue" status and return to green.
On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do the job more permanently:
17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.msgs -1 " 17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.files -1 " 17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server "disable twau009.ports -1 "
I think you'll find that "-1" means "until OK", so when a green report comes in, that flips it out of the blue state.
Ralph Mitchell