[Xymon] Missing feature ?

Mon Jul 16 17:00:41 CEST 2012

I have run into the same issue. Basically, you have a tradeoff: fewer 
tests with less granular control vs. more tests with finer control.

I have mostly shifted to a number of different tests to allow me to 
minimize the chances for me to miss additional failures.

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:42:56 +0000
> From: Scot Kreienkamp <SKreien at la-z-boy.com>
> To: "Root, Paul" <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>,
>     'Becker Christian' <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net>,
>     oliver <ohemming at gmail.com>, "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Missing feature ?
> 
> I think that's why he originally said the functionality was missing.  :-)
>
> I agree, that would be nice to have so that a red on one (disk|service|whatever) doesn't mean that a second failure under the same test would likely not be caught.
>
> Scot
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Root, Paul
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:38 AM
> To: 'Becker Christian'; oliver; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Missing feature ?
>
> Oh, you are checking all 20 services in one test.
>
> One test is one test in xymon. It's on or its off.
>
> If you wrote a script to test all these services, then you could add into it, its own 'disable' function on that client machine. Should be pretty simple.
>
> If by services you are just talking about processes or ports or something like that. Then there is no granularity possible in Xymon for that.
>
>
> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
>> Behalf Of Becker Christian
>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 9:28 AM
>> To: oliver; xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Missing feature ?
>>
>> Thank you for your reply, but this doesn't meet my wishes ;-)
>> As long as I disable a single test -services in my example- because one
>> of my 20 services are "red", I do not recognize if another services
>> also goes red...
>>
>>
>> CHRISTIAN BECKER
>> System Engineer
>> CSC
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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] Im
>> Auftrag von oliver
>> Gesendet: Montag, 16. Juli 2012 15:00
>> An: xymon at xymon.com
>> Betreff: Re: [Xymon] Missing feature ?
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Becker Christian
>> <christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net> wrote:
>>> a)      In CA Unicenter you can acknowledge an red alert. After
>> having
>>> acknowledged an red alert, this red alert changes to an orange alert,
>>> indicating that there is still  a problem.
>>> The main advantage is, that any ?view? on a ?higher level? isn?t
>> under red
>>> condition any longer ? it becomes yellow. This means, that a new red
>> alert
>>> coming from the same server could be recognized in a better way.
>>> This could be useful if in Xymon somebody doesn?t like the ?All non
>> green
>>> view? for any reason.
>>
>> Have you looked at "admin > enable|disable"?
>> If you have a 'red' alert, you can disable the test for a periodic
>> amount of time or until it's resolved.  The failed test will change
>> from red to blue but the top level colour changes back to green.
>>
>> I think this satisfies both of your requests (but I only quoted the
>> first one for brevity)
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