---
name: "spong-cleanup"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "spong-server"
version: "2.7.7-22"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/spong-cleanup"
---

# spong-cleanup(8)

perform nightly maintenance to the spong database

## NAME

**spong-cleanup** - perform nightly maintenance to the spong database

## SYNOPSIS

**spong-cleanup**

## DESCRIPTION

This program performs routine, regular maintenance of the spong database.

- •

  Cleans out any history older then 7 days.  It moves the old history for each host into the `$SPONG_ARCHIVE` directory.  If you don't think you would ever want to get at that history, then you can just change the script so that it is deleted.

- •

  \* Removes any acknowledgements that are no longer valid.

- •

  \* Removes any services that don't seem to be reported any more (if you stop monitoring something on a machine - the old entry will still hang around and show up as purple).

The **spong-cleanup** program should be run every night as a cronjob. This will ensure that database queries are speedy especially the History Log displays.

## CONFIGURATION

### Configuration Files

**spong-cleanup** reads the standard spong.conf and spong.conf.\<host\> configuration files.

### Configuration Variables

- $SPONGDB

  This defines the directory where the Spong database will be stored. Each host will have a subdirectory in this directory which is named for the host.

- $SPONG\_ARCHIVE

  The directory where to put old history file entries for each host. Each host has it's own file in this directory.

- $OLD\_HISTORY

  This is the number of days of history to keep for each host in the spong-server database. Any old history is append to the file for the host under the *$SPONG\_ARCHIVE* directory.

- $OLD\_SERVICE

  This is the number of days to retain stale service status (i.e. purple status) entries in the spong-server database. Any service service status entries older than \<$OLD\_SERVICE\> days old are deleted from the database.

## FILES

*spong.conf*, *spong.conf.\[hostname\]*

## DEPENDENCIES

Perl v5.005\_03 or greater is required.

## BUGS

None know bugs.

## SEE ALSO

spong-server, *spong.conf*

## AUTHOR

Ed Hill \<*ed-hill@uiowa.edu*\>, Unix System Administrator, The University of Iowa

Stephen L Johnson \<*sjohnson@monsters.org*\>

## HISTORY

Based on code/ideas from Sean MacGuire (BB), and Helen Harrison (Pong). Ed Hill original converted Big Brother (http://www.bb4.com) into Perl which diverged from Big Brother to become Spong. Ed Hill continued Spong development until version 2.1. Stephen L Johnson took over development in October, 1999 with his changes which became Spong 2.5.