[Xymon] Test showing white instead of purple - SOLVED

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:34 +0200, Thomas Kähn wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:41:07AM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> > Is there a way to report a test as purple if it changes from a colour to
> > white?
> > 
> > I'm not sure why it reported white and not purple. The status report
> > from the client was truncated, and I assume the 'files' test, therefore,
> > received no status.
> 
> according to the documentation it is possible to tweak the behaviour a
> little bit:
> 
> http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond_client.8.html
> 
> So if you set --no-clear-files the column probably would have switched
> to purple instead of clear.
> 
Hello,

Yes, the above option does cause the test to show purple instead of
clear/white (and hence appears on the 'non-green' page).
Many thanks for that.

There is also the option '--clear-color', which could be set to red or
yellow. Setting it to purple is accepted, but xymond then ignores
receiving 'purple' as a status colour. In my test case, the colour
seemed to remain at its previous value (which was red).




John.

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