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<p>Den 2014-03-10 15:51, john.r.rothlisberger@accenture.com skrev:</p>
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<div class="WordSection1"><span style="color: black;">This has been bugging me for years. Let’s assume you ack an alert for the service “W3SVC” for 4 hours for maintenance, which you have stopped on purpose for whatever reason. Let’s assume you also monitor services for SQL, Java, etc. If one of those also fails during the 4 hours of ack time – you won’t get an alert. There are 3 tests that can have multiple components which I would like to know if new alerts arrive while a test has been ack’d: disk, procs, & svcs. </span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> As I see it, the core of the problem with this is that Xymon currently bundles tests by the method in which they are tested, not by the "thing" that they test.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">So you have a "procs" status containing the status of multiple processes. But these processes may not have anything to do with each other, so handling alerts and acks based on this combination-status causes problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Same issue with e.g. "disk" or "http" status.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">As the old-timers here know, the reason for this is historical. That's a bad excuse, though, and it is something that needs changing. It is "in the pipeline"; since we have all of the rules for checking e.g. processes defined in analysis.cfg, we can also tell Xymon to put the analysis result in a different column than the "procs" column.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I just need to write the code to do that :-(</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Regards,<br />Henrik</span></p>
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