John

Very belatedly, here is a possible solution to this problem.

I managed to trigger this situation recently. I decided to rename a host using "xymon 127.1 'rename host1 host2'" and after that, my alert.log showed the log message containing "*... which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire*" - the same as you. The old hostname was specified in the log message.

The cause appears to have been that the old hostname was stuck in the alert.ckp checkpoint file, while not in hosts.cfg, which xymond_alert didn't like. After dropping the old hostname using "xymon 127.1 'drop host1'" the log messages stopped.

My guess is that I didn't wait long enough after renaming the host in hosts.cfg, and when I did the rename, xymond_alert hadn't picked up the change in hostname, and re-added the old hostname.

J

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 01:55, Rothlisberger, John R. via Xymon < xymon@xymon.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Rothlisberger, John R." <john.r.rothlisberger@accenture.com> To: "'xymon >> xymon@xymon.com'" <xymon@xymon.com> Cc: Bcc: Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 14:54:55 +0000 Subject: xymond_alert errors when hosts.cfg uses directory includes

A valid option for hosts.cfg is to use a directory tag which includes all files in that directory and sub directories.

It works as far as the webpage is concerned and monitoring in general – but, when it comes to xymond_alert it is not happy that the client is not in the hosts.cfg file itself.

xymon@tc3mon:~/xymon-4.3.30/xymond$ xymond_alert --test client test

2019-12-04 14:44:50.906606 Host not found in hosts.cfg - assuming it is on the top page

00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 send_alert client:test state Paging

Checking criteria for host ‘client', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire

00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 Matching host:service:dgroup:page ‘client:test:(NULL):' against rule line 11

…

00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 *** Match with 'SERVICE=test COLOR=red EXPAGE=%.*PAGE1' ***

00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 Script alert with command '/home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exalert_SSLHEADERS' and recipient headers_alert

It does eventually match the rule for the service but the errors generated end up polluting xymonlaunch.log and it grows at a crazy pace.

In xymond_alert.c – the client is only searched for in the hosts.cfg file and does not include any valid include directories or files.

Xymond_alert.c:

                    load_hostnames(xgetenv("HOSTSCFG"), NULL,

get_fqdn());

                    hinfo = hostinfo(testhost);

                    if (hinfo) {

                            testpage = strdup(xmh_item(hinfo,

XMH_ALLPAGEPATHS));

                    }

                    else {

                            errprintf("Host not found in hosts.cfg -

assuming it is on the top page\n");

                            testpage = "";

                    }

Any chance of getting this fixed in the next version?

Thanks,

John

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