Don't get me wrong: i don't do frequent restarts usually, but from time to
time i need a restart, or the whole server must be restarted bc. of
patches.
And as i constantly have to add new checks with new NCV definitions the
TEST2RRD and SPLITNCV settings in xymonserver.cfg changes, this needs also
a restart.
Because we have such a huge numer of servers a lot of departments use Xymon
regularly (luckily), and use the ack mechanism to organize their work (add
ticket number to an alert, do some evaluation reports and so on).
To have >100 alerts ack'ed is normal situation.
And it creates a lot of extra work to restore this.
In old BB times the acks always survived downtimes and restarts, but now
there are no more ack files stored in the acks dir, so i thought it would
be restored from the info in the alert.chk file, what is not the case.
Norbert
From: user-15513f33c451@xymon.invalid
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: user-501bbe9c5409@xymon.invalid
Date: 11/01/2018 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Xymon] acknowledgements does not survive xymon restart
What config changes are you making that requires such frequent restarts?
Changes to hosts.cfg, alerts.cfg, analysis.cfg, client-local.cfg; these are
files that get changed most frequently in my environment. None of which
require a restart to pick up the changes. I think the only one that *does*
need a restart, would be xymonserver.cfg, and the only component that would
need to be restarted would be xymond, not the full stack.
Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer
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