I've noticed what I believe to be discrepancies between the supplied configs and documentation. I'm currently the xymon port maintainer on FreeBSD, and it has bugged me that the acks, data, and disabled directories never seem to have anything in them, even when we have tons of things acked or disabled. I figured I'd start hunting things down and comparing our configuration to the supplied examples and this is what I have found.

Straight out of the tarball --

xymon-4.3.11/xymond/etcfiles/xymonserver.cfg.DIST:

Server specific directories

XYMONVAR="@XYMONVAR@" # The xymonvar directory holds all monitoring data XYMONACKDIR="$XYMONVAR/acks" # Acknowledge event info stored here (xymond_alert) XYMONDATADIR="$XYMONVAR/data" # Data files go here (xymond_filestore --data) XYMONDISABLEDDIR="$XYMONVAR/disabled" # Enabled/disabled flags are stored here (xymond_filestore --enadis) XYMONHISTDIR="$XYMONVAR/hist" # History logs are stored here (xymond_history) XYMONHISTLOGS="$XYMONVAR/histlogs" # Historical detail status-loge are stored here (xymond_history) XYMONRAWSTATUSDIR="$XYMONVAR/logs" # Status logs go here (xymond_filestore --status). Not needed by Xymon.

I think that may be incorrect here

xymon-4.3.11/xymond/etcfiles/tasks.cfg.DIST:

"alert" sends out alerts.

[alert] ENVFILE @XYMONHOME@/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEEDS xymond CMD xymond_channel --channel=page --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/alert.log xymond_alert --checkpoint-file=$XYMONTMP/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600

Why is the xymond_alert checkpoint-file going to XYMONTMP? Isn't it supposed to be going to XYMONACKDIR? Or is that unrelated? Can anyone explain why XYMONACKDIR, XYMONDATADIR, and XYMONDISABLEDDIR are always empty?

Thanks!