On 08-06-2013 17:36, Mark Felder wrote:
I've noticed what I believe to be discrepancies between the supplied
configs and documentation. I'm currently the xymon port maintainer on
FreeBSD, and it has bugged me that the acks, data, and disabled
directories never seem to have anything in them, even when we have tons
of things acked or disabled.
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Why is the xymond_alert checkpoint-file going to XYMONTMP? Isn't it
supposed to be going to XYMONACKDIR? Or is that unrelated? Can anyone
explain why XYMONACKDIR, XYMONDATADIR, and XYMONDISABLEDDIR are always
empty?
These directories exist only for historical reasons. The old "Big Brother" tool used these to store information about acks, data-messages, and disabled tests. Xymon doesn't, it keeps all of this in RAM and just dumps a checkpoint-file occasionally (into the tmp directory, as you've found).
There is a compatibility module in Xymon - xymond_filestore - which can be enabled if required for some Big Brother specific applications. This module will fill the ack / data / disabled directories with files in the format generated by Big Brother.
Although I've never heard of anyone actually using it :-)
Hope that helps
Regards,
Henrik