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

[Steve Holmes]

We also make heavy use of the pseudo host technique. 
Steve


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On Nov 8, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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