How do you handle retired servers? 🔗 link

When a server is retured, I really hate to removeit from xymon, but it is 
annoying to have to preiodically disable the the tests.

How do folks handle this? Do you simply delete them and move on? It seems 
like that tosses some potentionally useful historical information.

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If you delete the host from hosts.cfg the history is not destroyed.

If you need to get it back, you could simply use the URLs or add the host
to hosts.cfg.


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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Isaac W Traxler <user-4dfb0dbf036e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 9/20/2017 6:45 AM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:

When a server is retired, I really hate to remove it from xymon, but it
is annoying to have to periodically disable the the tests.

I have a script which disables server-side tests, suppresses noise from the client, and moves the line from hosts.cfg into 'retired_hosts'. retired_hosts looks like:

title <div style="color:dimgray;">Hosts no longer monitored</div>
subparent       TOP	retired <div style="color:dimgray;">Retired Hosts</div>

title <div style="font-family: sans-serif;">These hosts were retired in:</div>
# This default line is important. It prevents noise from escaping.
0.0.0.0         .default.       # noconn nonongreen NOPROPRED:* NOPROPYELLOW:* NOPROPPURPLE:* NOPROPACK:*

group-only      info    20170913-151622  thurston
# 0.0.0.0               doaetsjnumobt02.foo.alaska.gov          # http://www.foo.alaska.gov/
0.0.0.0         doaetsjnumobt02.foo.alaska.gov  #

- etc -

The idea is, 'retired_hosts' defines a new page, under the main page, containing hosts grouped by the date of their retirement. More recently retired hosts are at the top. The group name includes the retirement date and username of the person who retired the host.

There are two lines for each host in the new group. The first line is a commented out copy of the original line from hosts.cfg. The second line is a plain-jane line to eat any post-retirement messages submitted by the client.

Users can now see which hosts are retired, and when they were retired.

I have another script which I use to trim the bottom of 'retired_hosts' and 'drop' associated test results.

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