[Xymon] External scripts thresholds via hobbit-clients.cfg

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Wed Oct 19 07:52:33 CEST 2011


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On 10/17/2011 08:45 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Kevin Kelly <kkelly at lifetouch.com> wrote:
>> I have an external script and would like to be able to control the threshold
>> via the hobbit-clients.cfg file. Is there a way to do this?
> 
> In later versions (Xymon, not Hobbit) you can alarm on RRD values, so
> if you're graphing the values being tested in your script then you can
> set the thresholds.  This is done in analysis.cfg, which is what
> replaced hobbit-clients.cfg after the product name change.

Seems as if down the road I might be able to use this for the question I
asked about a month ago (in the "conn" test, there is a graph for ping
response time but no way to alarm on a high value as the test is
written). Would others agree or am I mistaken?

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