[Xymon] serverside tests using data from multiple clients?

[David Baldwin]

Betsy,
> Here's our situation.
>
> We've got some things we want to watch multiple servers, that will
> come through as a name-value pair (once we write the local test)
>
> So on server one I might have
>    foo-23
>    bar-25
> and on server two I might have
>   bar- 17
>   baz 3
>
> We want to to do some tests that would involve adding and correlating
> all this information. There can be *many* possible names, not just
> three
>
> What's the most xymon-like way to do it? Can I send data through
> client tests that is *read* by server-side tests ? (I vaguely remember
> there was a way to do it but searching is not workign for me today).
>
> One way to do it is to make a log file for each client, rsync the logs
> to a common location , and then run a single custom test on that
> location, but that strikes me as beign a bit "outside the box". I want
> to work within xymon whenever possible, and having individual client
> tests and the combo test accessible from the xymon interface would b e
> nice.
>
> thanks for any thoughts or clues
A couple of options you could try:

* send a 'data' message with you blob of data against a particular test
name - doesn't generate a column as such, but gives a way of sending in
data. You then need a listener on the data channel to intercept and
process the received data.
* hack the client and add a separate section into the client report,
then put a listener on the client channel to handle that sections data.
Something like http://xymonton.org/monitors:check-client

David.

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David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks)
Information and Communication Technology Services
Australian Sports Commission          http://ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
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