[Xymon] Single test column.

[Henrik Størner]

On 05-12-2011 17:00, Neil Simmonds wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m aware of such thing as NOCOLUMNS and noconn but I’d like to have an
> entry in my hosts.cfg for a server purely doing http tests
>
> The idea was to use the Xymon server itself (and have the full entry
> with all columns shown on another page) but even if I use
> NOCOLUMNS:cpu,disk,files,memory,msgs,ports,procs noconn I still have a
> large number of columns showing such as dm (devmon) and the vm columns
> for cpu/mem/disk as the Xymon server is on a VM.
>
> Is there anyway I can get it to just show the http test. This means that
> I would be able to add it to my Live Websites page so that the correct
> page would change colour in the case of an issue.

Two solutions:

1) Use a "group-only http" definition on the "Live Websites" page, this 
will include only the http test on that page, regardless of any other 
tests present for that host;

2) Move the http tests to a different (pseudo) hostname so that host 
only has an http status.


Regards,
Henrik