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stale alerts

list Gary Baluha
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:14:16 -0500
Message-Id: <user-d28156721c68@xymon.invalid>

Yes, the alert history shows it went yellow and then 5 minutes later
recovered.  The web page is showing everything correct.  However, when
I check the notifications.log file, I can see that it was still
sending alerts about it being yellow, even though it was definitely
green.

On Nov 14, 2007 10:38 AM, Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Click on it the host's test and click on history - was red at all?

Are the WWW pages updating?  Look in the top right corner of the page once
you click on the host's test link.


 On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I noticed this morning that our Hobbit server was sending out alerts
for the process check for a machine that was actually shown as green
on the hobbit  web page.  I checked on the monitored machine, and the
alert was indeed green, yet the server was still sending out emails as
though it were in a yellow state.  I restarted the Hobbit client on
the monitored machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the
server.  After doing this, I noticed the following in the page.log
file:

2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for host-name:procs dropped

(I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the innocent)
What exactly does this mean?  Before I restarted the Hobbit server
process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and removed the
erroneous alert, but that didn't correct the problem.  It was only
after I restarted the Hobbit server process that it cleared the alert.
Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is there something else going on
here?

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