[Xymon] Test showing white instead of purple

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:34 +0200, Thomas Kähn wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:41:07AM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > Is there a way to report a test as purple if it changes from a colour to
> > white?
> > 
> > I'm not sure why it reported white and not purple. The status report
> > from the client was truncated, and I assume the 'files' test, therefore,
> > received no status.
> 
> according to the documentation it is possible to tweak the behaviour a
> little bit:
> 
> http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond_client.8.html
> 
> So if you set --no-clear-files the column probably would have switched
> to purple instead of clear.
> 
Hello,

Thanks for this. However, the man page says:

===========
If there are no file checks, the "files" column will show a "clear"
status. If you would rather avoid having a "files" column, this option
causes xymond_client to not send in a clear "files" status.
==========

which is a little confusing. We have files to check, and the 'files'
column already exists (from previous results). So does this option
prevent a *subsequent* status for 'files' from showing white/clear but
will default to purple as with other tests. If so, then yes this seems
like what we want.

I think I need to experiment a little with it.




John.

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