[Xymon] Dashes preferred

[David Welker]

Yes, Larry, that's what I'm finding.  What I was hoping is that someone
would know of a way (either via a configuration item, variable setting, or
whatever) to get these to display regardless - like they use to in older
versions.

For example, if I have a client by itself several pages down in a hierarchy
(for proper segregation) and it doesn't show up initially, there's no way
to know when or if it starts reporting - short of it eventually showing up
on the "bad page" (which might be days later), unless I continually check
for it manually.  And what if it is due to a firewall, but I forgot I put
it there (this is supposed to handle thousands of servers, I'm told)?  I
might never remember to follow up on getting the firewall fixed!

Does anyone know of a possible setting/solution, other than what was
already suggested?

Thanks,

D

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find that the dashes are display if the new server is part of a "group"
> that includes other servers that are already displaying test results.
> Otherwise the new server will not show up until there is a positive test
> result to post. Xymon needs someway to know _what_ tests to display.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, David Welker <dewelker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  Granted I didn't add much detail because this is
>> in "preparation" of adding clients, so this is just the Xymon display
>> server (a default install) I'm dealing with.  It's a very basic config
>> using RH5 or RH6 (happens on both) and the latest(?) version of Xymon -
>> 4.3.7.  I used to play with an older version (back when it was named
>> "Hobbit") that did display the dashes, which is why I'm asking - to see if
>> this is just a new setting and/or a bug - and I've tried to make it as
>> simple as possible for anyone to replicate.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> D
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> You don't say how your setup is done (mine for example is split between
>>> display and network test machines), but mine DOES work that way -- as
>>> long as the host is in the bb-hosts file (I'm still running 4.2.3) on
>>> the machine generating the web page, it will be there with -'s.
>>>
>>> On 02/27/2012 01:47 PM, David Welker wrote:
>>> > In preparation of a client sending data to a Xymon server, a hosts.cfg
>>> > file was set up as follows:
>>> >
>>> > page page Page
>>> > 0.0.0.0  server1         # noconn
>>> > 0.0.0.0  server1.a      # noconn
>>> > 0.0.0.0  server1.b      # noconn
>>> > subpage subpage Subpage
>>> > [HOSTIP] [HOST]
>>> >
>>> > Having received no data from the client yet, I would expect to see
>>> these
>>> > 3 servers on the Page, instead all I see is a Page with a link to a
>>> > Subpage which correctly displays my server.  Is there a way (some
>>> > configuration setting or option) to have the servers show up on the
>>> Page
>>> > with dashes (-) for the column names until I actually receive data?
>>>
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