spong-cleanup - perform nightly maintenance to the spong database

spong-cleanup

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

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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.

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* Removes any acknowledgements that are no longer valid.

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* 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.

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

$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.

spong.conf, spong.conf.[hostname]

Perl v5.005_03 or greater is required.

None know bugs.

spong-server, spong.conf

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

Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>

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.