[Xymon] Small oddity - specifying max number of processes but no minimum.

[Betsy Schwartz]

Doesn't "0" mean that it should NOT be running, or is that only if the
minimum AND maximum are zero?

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think -1 only works as the max value. For the minimum, zero is the more
> natural number to use.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have a process named "foo". It is ok if there are zero instances of
>> this process running, or one or more. I want to alert when there are
>> more than three instances.
>>
>> If I put in analysis.cfg:
>>
>> PROC  foo  -1 3 yellow
>>
>> and there are no foo processes, the procs page shows:
>>           green foo (found 0, req. 1 or more)
>>
>> Color is correct, message is inaccurate
>> Then if I have more than three I see:
>>
>> yellow foo  (found 11, req. 1 or more)
>>
>> So I think the test is correct but the message is confusing.
>>
>> also it's not explicitly documented that you can use -1 to mean "no
>> minimum"
>>
>> (server and client are 4.3.7)
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