Yes, I think that is exactly what's happening, but my understanding of how
msgs alerts work is that they are supposed to last for 1/2 hour (by default)
then go away. Having these alerts hang around for hours is _not_ helpful, if
nothing else they mask any new problem messages.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so please
take with a grain of salt.
If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the logs (has
not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so it's still in the
last 10240 range?
Tim
From: Larry Barber [user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing
I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was triggered over
2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even though no new alert-worthy
messages have appeared in the message log. Has anybody else seen this
behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0 server, I'm not sure what the version of the
client is since I don't have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be
a good idea to include the Hobbit client version in the client data).
Thanks,
Larry Barber