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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">we have Xymon monitoring running on four sites, each site having ~400 devices to monitor.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Xymon has replaced our “old” monitoring solution which was CA
<span class="SpellE">Unicenter</span>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Having used CA <span class="SpellE">Unicenter</span> for many years now and now having changed to Xymon, I have two things that I cannot find:</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style=""><span style="">a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>In CA <span class="SpellE">Unicenter</span> you can acknowledge an red alert. After having acknowledged an red alert, this red alert changes to an orange alert, indicating that there is still<span style="">
</span>a problem.<br>
The main advantage is, that any “view” on a “higher level” isn’t under red condition any longer – it becomes yellow. This means, that a new red alert coming from the same server could be recognized in a better way.<br>
This could be useful if in Xymon somebody doesn’t like the “All non green view” for any reason.<br style="">
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</span></span></span>The other thing is: for example, in Xymon I have a server on which I’m monitoring many services ( ~ 20 services). If one of those services fails or is administratively disabled, this service becomes red. Now I have the possibility to acknowledge
this alert or to disable this test. But, if another service on the same server fails, I cannot recognize this, if the test is disabled. If it is acknowledged, it isn’t clear by 100% which on is the most recent one that has failed. This could also affect a
server that has many disks. If one disk get’s filled by 100%, I cannot see if another disk get’s also filled by 100% (if one doesn’t like the “All non green view”).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is my thinking wrong?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christian</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b style=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">CHRISTIAN BECKER</span></b></p>
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