[Xymon] Please help Re: Please clarify: http yellow when delayred is set? Or, what makes http yellow?

[Betsy Schwartz]

That is a good workaround, thanks. The workaround I chose was to make
this particular alert page on yellow. But I really need to clarify my
understanding of why an http alert would turn yellow. We have a *lot*
of mission-critical http alerts.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know why it's flagging the way it is, but could you break it out
> into individual checks?
>
>
>      10.1.2.3   web1.example.com #  CLASS:webzone ssh apache
> http://web1.example.com/url1.htm
>      0.0.0.0     web1-url2               # noconn
> http://web1.example.com/url2.cfm
>      0.0.0.0     web1-url3               # noconn
> http://web1.example.com/url3.cfm
>
> It's not ideal, but it would give you separate visibility and reporting
> until the yellow/red problem is worked out.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Any thought on this? We just had another missed outage. I am going to have
>> to start paging on http yellow until this is resolved - UGH
>> Thanks Betsy
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I have this default set:
>> > 0.0.0.0   .default.   # DOWNTIME=0:0000:0300 delayred=http:10
>> >
>> > and servers that are monitoring three URL's  like so:
>> >
>> > 10.1.2.3   web1.example.com #  CLASS:webzone ssh apache
>> > http://web1.example.com/url1.htm http://web1.example.com/url2.cfm
>> > http://web1.example.com/url3.cfm
>> >
>> >
>> > What I'm seeing is, with one URL going red with a timeout after 22
>> > seconds, the http test is going YELLOW and then going RED ten minutes
>> > later. Does delayred turn the test yellow? If not, why is this test
>> > turning yellow? We want it to be RED.
>> >
>> > What exactly determines whether an http test is red or yellow?
>> >
>> > thanks Betsy
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