Good day!
We had renamed 2 hosts today and renamed all (I hope) at host level and in XyMon config and restarted XyMon server and clients too.
Rename in XyMon was done as:
a) changes records in hosts.cfg
b) xymon 127.0.0.1:port "rename OLD_HOST NEW_HOST"
Now XyMon Server (4.3.11) - generates purple for 1st host in non-green and group reports while every test details shows green, yellow, red and so on what is expected.
the same server - generates normal reports for 2nd host renames
We have 2 XyMon server for High Availability and clients send info to both.
The 2nd XyMon Server (4.3.4) - generate normal reports for both renamed hosts.
So, question N 1 is - how to find where is the problem?
This only thing I had found in info report (which with trends are always green by the way) is that different status for the same metric is reported with minimal interval delta (~ 10 min which may be time since hostname change and xymon client restart and when "rename" was called at XyMon server.
For example:
Status summary:
Color Service Since Duration
------- ------ ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------
greed cpu Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
purple cpu Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
greed disk Mon Jul 08 18:24:07 2013 0 days, 00 hours, 48 minutes
purple disk Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
yellow files Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
purple files Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
greed memory Mon Jul 08 14:09:28 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 02 minutes
purple memory Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
greed msgs Mon Jul 08 14:14:29 2013 0 days, 04 hours, 57 minutes
purple msgs Mon Jul 08 13:59:44 2013 0 days, 05 hours, 12 minutes
This mean XyMon counts summary for 2 hostnames - new one (with info received just after hostname rename) and old one, but renamed to new name.
By the way, I had found on both XyMon servers there are still directories for old nad new hostnames under xymon/data/hostdata/
old host data not updated any more, but new ones only. Question N2: Is it expected or after xymon "rename ... " call all should be merged into one directory per host?
Best regards,
Andrey Chervonets
SIA CoMinder
http://www.cominder.eu/