When housekeeping starts?

[Peteris]

Right now I'm working on simple bash script that would allow to control housekeeping process time.

To fully understand will it work correct I have one question mainly to developers:

When Zabbix housekeeping starts after server restart (How long it takes)?

For example, if i set housekeeping to 4, will it start immediately after server restart or after 4 hours or ???

Thank you!

[sarathyme]

Looks like it starts immediately after the server restart

I am not from zabbix developer team, but I don’t have to be one to answer this. Please see this server log

25240:20100712:122743.573 **** Enabled features ****
25240:20100712:122743.573 SNMP monitoring: YES
25240:20100712:122743.573 IPMI monitoring: NO
25240:20100712:122743.573 WEB monitoring: YES
25240:20100712:122743.573 Jabber notifications: NO
25240:20100712:122743.573 ODBC: NO
25240:20100712:122743.573 SSH2 support: NO
25240:20100712:122743.573 IPv6 support: NO
25240:20100712:122743.573 **************************
25241:20100712:122743.671 server #1 started [DB Cache]
25247:20100712:122743.684 server #7 started [Trapper]
25248:20100712:122743.684 server #8 started [Trapper]
25249:20100712:122743.685 server #9 started [Trapper]
25250:20100712:122743.686 server #10 started [Trapper]
25251:20100712:122743.686 server #11 started [Trapper]
25252:20100712:122743.687 server #12 started [ICMP pinger]
25253:20100712:122743.688 server #13 started [Alerter]
25254:20100712:122743.688 server #14 started [Housekeeper]
25254:20100712:122743.689 Executing housekeeper
25255:20100712:122743.689 server #15 started [Timer]
25259:20100712:122743.695 server #17 started [HTTP Poller]
25262:20100712:122743.700 server #19 started [DB Syncer]
25263:20100712:122743.700 server #20 started [Escalator]
25240:20100712:122743.701 server #0 started [Watchdog]
25242:20100712:122743.713 server #2 started [Poller. SNMP:YES]
25243:20100712:122743.716 server #3 started [Poller. SNMP:YES]
25244:20100712:122743.718 server #4 started [Poller. SNMP:YES]
25245:20100712:122743.722 server #5 started [Poller. SNMP:YES]
25246:20100712:122743.724 server #6 started [Poller. SNMP:YES]
25257:20100712:122743.730 server #16 started [Poller for unreachable hosts. SNMP:YES]
25260:20100712:122743.739 server #18 started [Discoverer. SNMP:YES]
25254:20100712:122746.268 Deleted 0 records from history and trends
25254:20100712:132846.271 Executing housekeeper
25254:20100712:132848.834 Deleted 0 records from history and trends
25254:20100712:142948.835 Executing housekeeper
25254:20100712:142951.391 Deleted 0 records from history and trends


Highlighted shows, housekeeper runs immediately after restart

Hope you aware of fine-grained controls like HousekeepingFrequency, MaxHousekeeperDelete zabbix provides.


By the way, what are you trying to do?

I guess you wanted to run housekeeping during off-production hours? That would be good to have if you make it !!


Regards
Vijay

[Peteris]

I'm trying to find a workaround to Housekeeping load problem, to allow housekeeping process only at night-time.

Idea for workaround is pretty simple - you have two configuration files - one with housekeeping enabled - zabbix_server.conf_w (Housekeeping interval is still a question) other with housekeeping disabled - zabbix_server.conf_wo. Bash script takes care of swaping cfg files and restarting zabbix_server

Script Draft looks like this:

Turn ON:

#!/bin/bash
# Turn ON Zabbix Housekeeping
cp -f /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf_w /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server restart

Turn OFF:

#!/bin/bash
# Turn OFF Zabbix Housekeeping
cp -f /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf_wo /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
/etc/init.d/zabbix_server restart

[exkg]

So ... MaxHousekeeperDelete will not help in this case ? To control how many items will be deleted and keep load with low values ?


[]s,
Luciano