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"Blue" status doesn't stick using '*'?

list Ralph Mitchell
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:24:55 -0400
Message-Id: <user-205d050a8d1b@xymon.invalid>

On Mar 26, 2013 6:15 PM, "Mills, David (IS)" <user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid> wrote:
All –

For some reason many (all?) hosts are currently impervious to being
disabled from the CLI if I use the “*” wildcard for the TESTNAME value.
According to the xymon man page, I should be able “…To disable all tests
for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME.” All tests for this host
should go “blue” and stay in this state indefinitely (right?). However, I
see this  (timestamps in the prompts):
        16:51:39 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon
$XYMON_server  "disable twau009.* -1 "
16:52:16 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server
"xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime"
trends|green|0
info|green|0
memory|blue|-1
files|blue|-1
msgs|blue|-1
ports|blue|-1
procs|blue|-1
disk|blue|-1
cpu|blue|-1
prtdiag|blue|-1
nfs|blue|-1
raid|blue|-1
tm|blue|-1
conn|blue|-1
sar|blue|-1
iostat2|blue|-1

   then, about one minute later, I see my first “rebel” test (“conn”)
flip itself back to non-disabled:

16:53:14 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server//bin/xymon $XYMON_server
"xymondboard host=twau009 fields=testname,color,disabletime" | grep –v blue
trends|green|0
info|green|0
conn|green|0

It takes about five-six minutes, but all eventually desert their “blue”
status and return to green.

On the other hand, naming tests explicitly like the following seems to do
the job more permanently:

17:03:50 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server
"disable twau009.msgs -1 "
17:05:22 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server
"disable twau009.files -1 "
17:05:28 dwru002:/var/log/xymon> ~/xymon/server/bin/xymon $XYMON_server
"disable twau009.ports -1 "

I think you'll find that "-1" means "until OK", so when a green report
comes in, that flips it out of the blue state.

Ralph Mitchell