spong-cleanup(8)

Usage

spong-cleanup

Overview

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•: * Removes any acknowledgements that are no longer valid.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.

History

Debian 5.0 (Lenny): the text shown here
Debian 4.0 (Etch)
Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
Debian 3.0 (Woody)