[Xymon] Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?

[Betsy Schwartz]

I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http
tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL,  with the ability
to alert separately, sign out separately, etc.
As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or
another, the various URL's test very different functionality.

I can sort of do this with the "cont=" flag but that has two problems:

  -have to specify a return regexp for each tested URL instead of
using the default
  -test STILL appears under the server's http check

It's becoming a serious issue that we have http tests that show a
mixture of red and green tests.
And to make it worse, on some servers  sometimes http  just turns
*yellow* when only one URL out of three or four is down,  even though
all four are critical..

What are other people doing? Am I missing an easier way to do this?

thanks Betsy