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Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host

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list David Raymond · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:40:41 -0400 ·
Hi,

 
On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.

This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red...
and send alerts.

 
Someone have same as me ?

 
David Raymond
list Tim McCloskey · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:12:10 -0700 ·
I don't seem to have that issue.  When I add hosts, no restart is required.  It many not be true for newer versions but I recall the only thing needing a restart was an edit to the (hobbit|xymon)server.cfg.  If you are deleting the tmp files (*.chk) I can see the maint alerts change from blue to red.

Others, wiser and running more current versions will chime in, but waht happens if you just add a new host to the host.cfg file and wait some 7 minutes without restarting?  Does it show up?

Good Luck,
Tim
quoted from David Raymond
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Raymond, David [user-b68bb8c94f8b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:40 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host

Hi,

On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.
This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red… and send alerts.

Someone have same as me ?

David Raymond
list Ryan Novosielski · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:15:28 -0400 ·
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quoted from Tim McCloskey

On 10/21/2011 11:40 AM, Raymond, David wrote:
Hi,

 
On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.

This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red?
and send alerts.

 
Someone have same as me ?
How long have you waited before to verify that it will not pick these
changes up on its own? My recollection is that these changes are picked
up without a restart. However, I don't know why you're seeing all of
that activity from a simple restart -- it only takes about 20 seconds to
restart.

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list Henrik Størner · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200 ·
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
On 21-10-2011 17:40, Raymond, David wrote:
On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.
No you dont. Either wait 10 minutes for xymond to reload the hosts.cfg 
file, or do a "kill -HUP" of the xymond process.
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red…
and send alerts.
Should not happen on a restart, unless you delete the xymond* files in 
the tmp/ directory.


Regards,
Henrik
list Malcolm Hunter · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:20:37 +0200 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
----- Original Message -----
From: Raymond, David
Sent: 10/21/11 04:40 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host

Hi,

 

On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.

This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red...
and send alerts.
How long are you waiting after making changes to hosts.cfg? It may take a couple of minutes, especially if you are adding new hosts.

Malcolm
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list David Raymond · Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:58:45 -0400 ·
Yesterday I add one host and this morning still with "-" at each column, event conn.
I do /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start and all come up.

David Raymond
quoted from Henrik Størner
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:18
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host

On 21-10-2011 17:40, Raymond, David wrote:
On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.
No you dont. Either wait 10 minutes for xymond to reload the hosts.cfg file, or do a "kill -HUP" of the xymond process.
This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red... 
and send alerts.
Should not happen on a restart, unless you delete the xymond* files in the tmp/ directory.


Regards,
Henrik