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

[FORD Alan]

Try setting them up like this.. We have separate web pages from the same server but needed to monitor each page separately.

#hosts.cfg file

0.0.0.0       South02 # COMMENT:"<a href=http://utapp01/trader/all_states.php>Spot Market Summary</a>" prefer testip noconn nonongreen http://utapp01/trader/all_states.php

South02 is a pseudo host name that isn't pinged or tries to get its name dns resolved.
You can then use South02 as your host name in your analysis file. Added benefit is that the COMMENT causes the link to appear on the Xymon page :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Betsy Schwartz
Sent: Friday, 9 November 2012 1:23 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?

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
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