Now I've completed the transition and Big Brother has been shut off
everywhere. As a result for these 4 particular hosts that had BB
restarted, now Xymon is complaining hourly with
Subject: Xymon [NNNNNNN] [machine].net stopped reporting (PURPLE)
messages containing the last "netstat -i" output it received.
I thought the raw data sent from a Xymon client already included
"netstat -i" output, so I thought the server would just get that
info from the clients now?
It does, but Xymon won't remove that old status automatically. You must
explicitly drop the "net" status column to remove it, since it is no
longer being updated. Run
xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME net"
and the "net" column for that host will disappear, along with the alerts.
Regards,
Henrik