I have printer: Printer143
It is disabled and was done so using the command:
$BB $BBDISP "disable ${HOST}.* -1 offline" to allow a ‘ping’ to enable it
It is BLUE and querying it shows that it is BLUE:
/home/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "query Printer142.conn"
blue <!-- [flags:OrdAsTLe] --> Wed Apr 6 10:58:39 2011 conn ok
I think you made a typo here - is it Printer143 or Printer142?
Assume you're talking about the same printer that you disabled ...
If you go to the ‘conn’ web page for Printer142, it shows:
BLUE boarder and BLUE ICON but under history, it shows:
GREEN diamond IP-of-Printer is alive (0.57 ms)
That would point to the device being disabled until some time into the
future.
I when into ADMINISTATION: Enable/Disable and enabled the Printer.
There are no devices left to Enable.
Then it should go green when the next "conn" status update arrives.
Enabling a test doesn't change the status right away, it only changes
when the next status update arrives (usually within 5 minutes for the
network-based tests).
But the device still shows BLUE/DISABLED.
What do you get from a
bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=Printer143 test=conn fields=disabletime"
It should return 0 if it is not disabled, -1 if "disabled until OK", and
a timestamp (number) if disabled until some time in the future.
Is there a way to get these devices ENABLED again short of removing and
loading them again?
Worst case, stop Xymon, edit the tmp/hobbitd.chk file and delete the
line with the hostname+testname, then start Xymon again.
Regards,
Henrik