spong-cleanup(8)
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 - · * Removes any acknowledgements that are no longer valid.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.