I am using Checkmk 2.0 and currently have over 8000 files in the spool directory. Are these files suppose to get deleted? If so what do I need to check to make sure they get deleted?
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Hi ekeicof,
there are different possibilities to setup things and you need to tell us a bit about your checkmk environment and (expected) notification setup.
Generally speaking, these files should not be there and should be automatically processed by the service mknotifyd.
You can check its service state with
omd status <sitename> mknotifyd
The logfiles are in
/omd/sites/<sitename>/var/log/mknotifyd.log
/omd/sites/<sitename>/var/log/mknotifyd.state
And i think the notify log is also a interesting to take a look at:
/omd/sites/<sitename>/var/log/notify.log
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Hi aeckstein,
Thanks for your reply. mknotifyd is running, I send out email notifications when there is a problem. This is what I am seeing in the mknotifyd.log on a notification.
2022-12-25 10:07:23,002 [10] [cmk.store] Trying to acquire lock on /omd/sites/factory/var/log/mknotifyd.state
2022-12-25 10:07:23,002 [10] [cmk.store] Got lock on /omd/sites/factory/var/log/mknotifyd.state
2022-12-25 10:07:23,002 [10] [cmk.store] Releasing lock on /omd/sites/factory/var/log/mknotifyd.state
2022-12-25 10:07:23,002 [10] [cmk.store] Released lock on /omd/sites/factory/var/log/mknotifyd.state
2022-12-25 10:07:26,006 [15] [cmk.mknotifyd] Skipped 6975 spool files, we have no established connection.
2022-12-25 10:07:26,007 [20] [cmk.mknotifyd] got exit code 0
2022-12-25 10:07:26,007 [20] [cmk.mknotifyd] processing spoolfile f266bf6e-34a5-414a-8dfb-77d87640559f successful: success 250 - b’2.0.0 2BPG7Oq02429611 Message accepted for
delivery’
I see there is a corrupted file which I can delete in the mknotifyd.state file
[root@uslllx0001 log]# cat mknotifyd.state
mknotifyd - current state
Version: 2.0.0p19
Updated: 1672161710 (2022-12-27 11:21:50)
Started: 1671984376 (2022-12-25 10:06:16, 177334 sec ago)
Configuration: 1671984376 (2022-12-25 10:06:16, 177334 sec ago)
Listening FD: None
Spool: New
Count: 8152
Oldest: 1663786467 (2022-09-21 13:54:27, 8375243 sec ago)
Youngest: 1663786467 (2022-09-21 13:54:27, 8375243 sec ago)
Spool: Deferred
Count: 0
Oldest: -
Youngest: -
Spool: Corrupted
Count: 1
Oldest: 1666726079 (2022-10-25 14:27:59, 5435631 sec ago)
Youngest: 1666726079 (2022-10-25 14:27:59, 5435631 sec ago)
Queue: mail
Waiting: 0
Processing: 0
I have noticed when I get a lot if files in the spool directory I start having problems with the email notifications. I will manually remove them at that point.
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Hey,
what is your configuration settings in Setup - Global Settings - Notifications - Notification Spooling ?
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It is set to Asynchronous local delivery plus remote forwarding
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Forwarding means, that you forward the created notifications in a distributed setup to another checkmk server.
Is this what you want to achieve?
If not, this is the reason for your problem and you can set the setting to asynchronous local delivery only.
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This error also indicates, that there is no remote notification spooler configured, where the local spooler can send its notifications to.
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I set it to Asynchronous local delivery by notification spooler, which is the default. I did not see asynchronous local delivery only as an option.
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That is what i meant 
You need to delete the files manually after that, they will not be cleaned up automatically i guess
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Thanks aeckstein, that fixed the problem. I am not sure how it was changed from the default setting. I did not change it.
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Setup - Global Settings - Notifications - Notification Spooling, changing the setting to Asynchronous local delivery by notification spooler like you recommended was the solution to my problem.
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