Resending to list, as I somehow managed to send the reply only to Ralph.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Xymon] Unable to drop content checks Date: 2014-10-15 2:46 am From: Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> To: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>

On 2014-10-14 8:53 pm, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

The way you wrote:

 xymon <hostname.of.xymon> "drop ......."

suggests you're not doing this on the Xymon server? If not, you might want to try that. The server may not accept drops from remote sources.

 xymon localhost "drop ....."

Ralph Mitchell

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:

...

I did run the drop http, but I can try the content option.

On 2014-10-14 8:17 pm, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

Could it be "content" or perhaps "http"?

On 14 October 2014 23:50, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:

Good morning, all.

Running Xymon 4.3.17, I've tried every magical incantation of the "xymon" command with the "drop" parameter that I can think of, but I haven't been able to get Xymon to drop 3 previously configured content checks.

I've updated the hosts.cfg file to remove the cont= tests from the host's entry (content check/column names were ptlcls1, ptlcls2 and ptlcls3).

I've tried:

xymon <hostname.of.xymon> "drop <client-host-name> ptlcls1" (as well as ptlcls2 and ptlcls3)

I've also tried:

xymon <hostname.of.xymon> "drop <client-host-name> cont"

But the tests continue to show up in the alarms list or in the disabled list, as I've now disabled them in order to clear my board of alarms.

Am I missing something, doing something wrong, or am I just going to have to drop the client from Xymon (thereby losing its history) and re-add it (obviously, not really a great option)?

Thank you.

Actually, I am running the commands locally, from the actual xymon server...I've just had better luck running the command while specifying the actual hostname of FQDN than I have specifying localhost, in the past.

I've tried "localhost" as well, to no avail.

-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org

"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1