Alarm Notifier directory file growth / disk space issue

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

The notifier.out file for Alarm Notifier is growing large and it's impacting disk space  What is causing this file to increase rapidly?

Environment

Release : 21.2.x, 22.2x

Component : Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Cause

Possible debugging is enabled but not needed

Resolution

Check the Alarm Notifier .alarmrc config file

<SPECROOT>/Notifier/.alarmrc

Check if there are any debugging enabled in the file from previous support cases/issues and remove the lines or comment them out. Restart Alarm Notifier for the debugging to stop logging. 

NOTE: If you are using Custom Alarm Notifiers be sure to check ALL your .alarmrc config files, even for the custom Notifier configurations.