[Xymon] Best way to dealing with 100's of tests or Can I build a page that scrolls down instead of across?

[FORD Alan]

You could have multiply entries for the same server in the one host file and use the group include and exclude to do that...

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On 12/11/2011, at 7:29 AM, "Elizabeth Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've got a set of four servers that are going to, potentially, have
> several HUNDRED custom tests running, one for each of several hundred
> custom "queues"
> Requirements:
> -get monitoring up for these queues in a hurry
> -have the ability to enable/disable individual tests
> -do NOT create a xymon page that is several hundred tests wide.
>  If we create more than a screenful of tests, scroll must be vertical
> not horizontal.
> 
> So, it's easy enough to make  a client-side test that tests each queue
> and returns
>    $BB $BBDISP $COLOR  status  $servername.$queuename
> 
> BUT that means we would have a BB page that goes a mile wide. This has
> been flat-out vetoed as unusable. I kind of agree.
> 
> How have you handled multiple tests?
> Is there a way to write custom xymon pages that scroll down instead of across?
> Is there a better way?
> 
> Suggestion1: use the real hostnames with separate test name for each
> test, as is. Vetoed  because display would be hundreds of dots wide.
> 
> Suggestion2: use a bogus hostname for each test. Vetoed by me because:
> we don't want to have to be constantly configuring bogus hostnames for
> every test,  and we want a way to add and subtract tests that doesn't
> require shell access as the xymon user. Plus bogus hostnames confuse
> the first-tier support team.
> 
> Suggestion3: use one test for all queues, and write controls and
> enable/disable mechanism outside of xymon. Vetoed all around because
> we're in a hurry to get this up and we've already *got* xymon, we
> don't want to re-invent the wheel and start writing our own test
> control panel.
> 
> Suggestion4: use a separate test name for each test and set xymon to
> not display these fields at all. Presumably they will still show up on
> the "all non-green" page and on the enable/disable display, but they
> won't muck up the server display page. We'll add a separate "queue
> summary" test that is set to not alert, but that will give us one
> green dot.  This is the best idea so far, but it means we are running
> hidden tests.
> 
> Does anyone else have any interesting solutions to the multiple-tests page?
> 
> thanks Betsy
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