[Xymon] trigger an alert from the response time of a network service

[Root, Paul]

Take the space out from in front of the > as well. Would be my guess.

Paul Root    - Engineer III
Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink



> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
> Behalf Of Scot Kreienkamp
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:46 AM
> To: Henrik Størner; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] trigger an alert from the response time of a
> network service
>
> Hi Henrik, thanks for the help.
>
> OK, I changed it to this:
>
> DS conn cmrtgusers.connect-mn.rrd:ds0 >3 COLOR=yellow TEXT="Exceeding
> 30 logged in users"
>
> So there is no space between the greater than and 30, then dropped the
> 30 down to three to make sure it would get hit.  Still nothing.  Is
> there a debug that I can turn on and look into it further?
>
> Scot Kreienkamp
> Senior Systems Engineer
> skreien at la-z-boy.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
> Behalf Of Henrik Størner
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:59 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] trigger an alert from the response time of a
> network service
>
> On 13-10-2011 19:45, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> > Good timing, I've been playing with this for a while and haven't been
> > able to get it to work.
> >
> > Here's my analysis.cfg entry:
> >
> > HOST=connect-mn.localhost DS trends cmrtgusers.connect-mn.rrd:ds0 >
> 30 COLOR=yellow TEXT="Exceeding 30 logged in users"
> >
> > I was sending it to trends because the rrd that I want to alert on
> > doesn't have its own test.  I also tried conn and another one that
> > doesn't exist.  The cmrtgusers.connect-mn.rrd exists in
> > /home/hobbit/data/rrd/connect-mn.localhost, and I am getting a graph
> > on the trends page for it with data.
>
> The "trends" column cannot change color, it will always be green.
>
> I am not sure, but I think you shouldn't have any space between the '>'
> and '30'. It would be pretty bad for the parser to trip on that, so if
> that is the problem please let me know so I can look at improving it.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
> _______________________________________________
> Xymon mailing list
> Xymon at xymon.com
> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
> _______________________________________________
> Xymon mailing list
> Xymon at xymon.com
> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly
prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this communication
in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy
all copies of the communication and any attachments.