[Xymon] Test showing white instead of purple

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 09/17/2012 10:56 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 08:30 AM, John Horne wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 07:59 -0400, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
>>> I think white typically show up for tests that are dependent
>>> on some other test.  For example, the network tests do that.
>>> I've recently had some ping failures, so ssh came up white, but
>>> the client tests (cpu, memory,disk, ports, procs) all came
>>> through OK.
>>> 
>> Okay. But as far as I remember the 'procs' and 'files' tests 
>> default to white. When the server is first installed there are
>> no defined processes or files to monitor so the tests go white.
> 
>> For these tests the data comes from the client via the large
>> status text file sent to the server. Since we got an 'oversize'
>> message, not all the data was available. So I assume none of the
>> 'procs' stuff was there, so the test went purple because it
>> hadn't seen anything for a while. The 'files' test, I assume, had
>> some data, but not enough to give a result of the test. So the
>> test went white. (Note, I *assume* that is how it works :-))
> 
>> Anyway, my point is that I would like to know if a test goes
>> white regardless of the reason. It is an indication that
>> 'something is not right', yet because we tend to keep an eye on
>> the 'non-green' page we were unaware, in this case, that the
>> 'files' test had gone white.
> 
> While likely not what you're looking for, the test is called
> "clear" and you can search for it under "Reports / Event log
> report" if you want to see all events involving clear (though at
> least in my version, 4.2.3, it shows both coming FROM clear and
> going TO clear).
> 
> You can at least use this to see if the issue is widespread.

Excuse me, that should have said the COLOR is called "clear".

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