[Xymon] using the status message to update colors and/or rrd values

[Jeremy Laidman]

I think you can do this with a data message.  But it goes into the "heynow"
RRD file, and won't show the value on the "heynow" page.  However you can
have the graph displayed on the page.




On 14 August 2013 08:42, Bryan Levin <blevin at seven.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> we're using xymon at our company and we have our own data poller which
> sends updated colors and numerical values to the various objects on the
> xymon 'map'.
>
> as is typical, our script runs as:
>
> /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow
> yellow `date`
>
> heynow : 3.14
> '
>
> and this works great when I want to send BOTH a color AND a value to this
> object.
>
> if I want to send just a new color to this object, the short form also
> works great:
>
> /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow
> yellow'
>
> but is there any way to send JUST the value update and leave the color
> unchanged?
>
> sometimes we have a trap coming in and that might want to update just the
> color.  other times, we have a poller (of our own) that does not want to
> disturb any already-set colors but wants to just throw another sample at
> the rrd graph that is controlled by this object.
>
> before I dive into the source code, I wonder if this is already supported
> somehow.
>
> TIA,
>
> .bl
>
>
>
>
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