[Xymon] Elegant way to run an aggregate ext test over multiple clients?

[Elizabeth Schwartz]

Suppose I have a five-server cluster, and on each server there's a
calculated value, call it Q, and an ext test "qlength" that operates
on Q and returns a color and a message containing Q.

We want to make a server-side test that does some alerting based on
aggregate values of Q across all five servers in the cluster. Not a
combo test, we want to do math, like Sum (Q1...Qn) >Threshold.


*One* way to get Q for each server is to write a server-side ext test
that loops a wget over each host, something like:

       wget  /dev/null
http://xymon/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh\?HOST=myhost.example.com\&SERVICE=qlength

then parse each server's Q info out of the html and do my arithmetic,
but is there a more direct way?

thanks for any pointers clues or code snippets
Betsy