Tom,
checked the links, and it looked like a similar problem at first sight, but does not describe my issue. My env is quite different:
- my xymon runs in the xymon user homedir /home/xymon/server (freshly compiled from source with configure and make)
- i have the correct xymond.chk and alert.chk in my $XYMONTMP (/home/xymon/server/tmp), which are still present after i stopped xymon
- the settings in tasks.cfg for xymond and alert are correct (otherwise the chk files wouldn't be updated regularly)
I have another Xymon installation (much smaller, but same design and version), where i verified this behaviour. So seems not related to the number of servers or the size of the chk files.
My tasks.cfg settings:
[xymond]
ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
CMD xymond --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.pid
--restart=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk
--checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/xymond.chk
--checkpoint-interval=600
--log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymond.log
--admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$XYMONSERVERIP
--ack-each-color
--ghosts=match
[alert]
ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
NEEDS xymond
CMD xymond_channel
--channel=page
--log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/alert.log xymond_alert
--checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/alert.chk
--checkpoint-interval=600
Norbert
From: me at tdiehl.org To: Norbert Kriegenburg <norbert.kriegenburg at de.ibm.com> Cc: xymon at xymon.com Date: 11/02/2018 02:11 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] acknowledgements does not survive xymon restart
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Norbert Kriegenburg wrote:
Experts:
I have a new fairly large xymon environment (4.3.28 with >10k servers),
andErik?
of course there are always a lot of alerts acknowledged.
Unfortunately all these acks are resetted if i restart the xymon daemon (xymon.sh restart) to activate config changes f.e. This is the same if i use the "Acknowledge alert" from the menu or the (undocumented) "xymondack" feature of xymon. This leads to a lot of extra effort and confusion... Any ideas how i can save the ack situation and restore it after a restart?
You might want to have a look at these old threads. I remember this problem because it bit me back then.
http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-March/037082.html
http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-January/036721.html
HTH,
-- Tom me at tdiehl.org