On Fri, January 22, 2016 12:45 pm, Matt Pannucci wrote:

Hello!

I was wondering if someone could help me out. When we click on "History" for our hosts, its always green. No matter what, the history is never accurate. I'm not sure where to look to fix this one.

Thanks

Matt

Hi,

First and foremost, you'll want to make sure the [history] section in tasks.cfg is not disabled and that xymond_history is running properly.

Assuming it's running, try placing it in --debug mode (add that to the CMD line, or give the running xymond_history (not the xymond_channel one running it) a -USR2 signal. Then, cause an event to happen (eg, disable and reenable a test) and see if any details are noted in /var/log/xymon/history.log (or your local equivalent).

Baring that, you'll want to check for permissions issues (everything in $XYMONVAR should be writeable by the xymon user), and possibly SELinux if you're not using a packaged version.

If all else fails, restarting xymond will cause it to flush out the current status the first time each host+service message comes in. That should cause everything to synchronize back up (or expose what's preventing it). (Version 4.4 - alpha still coming soon! - has a "histsync" command which will does something similar to a running install.)

HTH, -jc