acknowledgements does not survive xymon restart

Hi Norbert,

as I can not remember that I encountered this I just tested this (in a mini setup, xymon 4.3.28 on Debian9) and my 2 acks survived the xymon-restart.
As your environment is fairly large this could be size/load problem.

Random ideas:
- is the restart “clean” or does something crash during the stop-phase (logfiles)?
- you could try is to manually force writing a checkpoint-file by sending SIGUSR1 to xymond before restart.
- if you have a redundant/multi-server setup: Is there any chance that an other xymon-server is propagating incomplete state (`xymond_distribute` not enabled)?

All the best
Thomas

On 01 Nov 2018, at 13:16, Norbert Kriegenburg <user-501bbe9c5409@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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


<graycol.gif>EDSchminke---11/01/2018 12:58:35 PM---What config changes are you making that requires such frequent restarts? Changes to hosts.cfg, alert

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.

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