[Xymon] httpstatus inconsistency

[Troy Adams]

Thanks Phil, 

I do indeed have multiple http tests for the same host that go to 
different URLs on the same host. I know it looks funny at first but 
the reason for this is by design. You see, the application running 
behind the apache webserver on this host is programmed to hand out a 
different status on each URL that indicates the status of the database 
yet further behind the application. 

For example, database dbB, is shown to be up and running if (and 
only if) the fetch of URL https://MyUrlB returns an HTTP Status of 
200. That is to say, if the application get's a database exception 
then it is to throw a non-200 status. 

This hosts.cfg entry does work well but it works one way on one 
monitoring server and the other way on the other monitoring server: 

> The strange thing, is that when dbC fails with a non 200.... 
> on monitor3 dbC and http tests show red 
> on monitor5 dbC shows red and http shows green 


cheers, 

Troy 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Crooker" <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au> 
To: "Troy Adams" <troy at athabascau.ca>, xymon at xymon.com 
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:16:44 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [Xymon] httpstatus inconsistency 

A rather odd thing I see in your example - you have two http tests for 
the same host. If you want to have both I would think you'd need to 
rename one of them by doing a separate portocols.cfg entry or putting it 
under a differnet hostname. 

It seems to me that you probably have some syntax error in your 
hosts.cfg file to cause the different results. 

cheers, Phil 


>>> On 28/06/2011 at 4:03 AM, in message 
<1205542418.4630071309197825488.JavaMail.root at amundsen.cs.athabascau.ca>, 
Troy 
Adams <troy at athabascau.ca> wrote: 
> I have two servers (monitor5 and monitor3) running Xymon 4.3.2 that 
both have 
> the same hosts.cfg entries for a particular host. The entry uses the 

> httpstatus test and goes like this: 
> 
> 
> 192.168.0.29 camilla # postgresql \ 
> http://MyUrlA \ 
> httpstatus=dbB;https://MyUrlB;200 \ 
> httpstatus=dbC;https://MyUrlC;200 \ 
> http://MyUrlD 
> 
> The strange thing, is that when dbC fails with a non 200.... 
> on monitor3 dbC and http tests show red 
> on monitor5 dbC shows red and http shows green 
> 
> Why do the two monitoring servers behave differently? 
> Any idea where to look? 
> 
> 
> thanks, 
> 
> Troy 

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