[Xymon] conn-test on multihomed hosts: no graphing of resonse-time?

[Henrik Størner]

On 04-05-2012 16:50, Thomas Eckert wrote:
> Hi Xymonians, hi Henrik,
>
> in my setup (xymon-4.3.7) the conn-check for multihomed hosts:
>
> conn={best,|worst,}IP1[,IP2...]
>
> does not graph the response-time of the additional IPs (IP1, IP2, ...).
>
> If this is a configuration-setting stop reading here; any hints to
> configure this correctly are appreciated.
>
> While latency-graphing for the additional IPs is not essential it's
> different from the behaviour of the other network-tests where the
> response/latency is graphed even if multiple target for the same test
> are specified (e.g. http-checks).
>
> My _guess_ would be that this is not supported as the multihomed-feature
> was added later and changing the rrd-file naming-scheme could cause
> trouble with existing installations of xymon.

I think your guess is correct.

> As there is currently a big rework of the xymonnet-module is going on
> and rev. 6969 just added the "conn="-feature I thought this might be a
> good time to change this _if_ it is desired at all.

I'll keep it in mind. As you say, this is currently "work in progress"; 
the data-collection (i.e. actually doing the tests) is now more or less 
complete, so now I have to implement the data analysis part. Having a 
look at the ping-graphs at this time would make sense.


Regards,
Henrik