[Xymon] trigger an alert from the response time of a network service

[Henrik Størner]

On 13-10-2011 19:45, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
> Good timing, I've been playing with this for a while and haven't been
> able to get it to work.
>
> Here's my analysis.cfg entry:
>
> HOST=connect-mn.localhost DS trends cmrtgusers.connect-mn.rrd:ds0 > 30 COLOR=yellow TEXT="Exceeding 30 logged in users"
>
> I was sending it to trends because the rrd that I want to alert on
> doesn't have its own test.  I also tried conn and another one that
> doesn't exist.  The cmrtgusers.connect-mn.rrd exists in
> /home/hobbit/data/rrd/connect-mn.localhost, and I am getting a graph
> on the trends page for it with data.

The "trends" column cannot change color, it will always be green.

I am not sure, but I think you shouldn't have any space between the '>' 
and '30'. It would be pretty bad for the parser to trip on that, so if 
that is the problem please let me know so I can look at improving it.


Regards,
Henrik