[Xymon] xymon feature I would like to add

[Larry Barber]

That would extremely helpful. Any idea when 5.0 will be released?

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 14-03-2013 19:25, Tux Toes wrote:
>
> > I did float my feature suggestion on the regular mailing list - but I
> > think I was way to subtle.  Here is the gmane archive link - it does
> > explain what I want to do.
> >
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/**gmane.comp.monitoring.hobbit/**32063<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.hobbit/32063>
>
> thanks for your mail. Good ideas for enhancements are always welcome, and
> it certainly makes sense to be able to split the disk-status reports the
> way you propose.
>
> I was planning this feature, in a more general fashion. It can equally
> well be used for other of the combined status-reports, e.g. "procs" would
> be an obvious candidate for splitting up this way. So it is something that
> I plan on implementing via an enhancement to the analysis.cfg file. Right
> now my plan is to add a STATUS definition at a level above the current
> HOST/PAGE/GROUP ... definitions, something like:
>
> STATUS=disk_sys
>    HOST=*
>      DISK / 70 90
>      DISK /var 80 95
>
> STATUS=disk_db
>    HOST=%^oraserv
>      DISK %^/oradata 95 98
>      DISK %rollback 60 90
>    HOST=%mysql
>      DISK /var/lib/mysql 80 90
>
> so you can define the criteria that trigger a "disk_db" status by
> selecting on hostnames or any of the other criteria, and then defining the
> tests that go into the "disk_db" status.
>
> This would also allow you to combine tests that are now separate, e.g. all
> tests regarding a database instance:
>
> STATUS=dbw1
>     HOST=*
>        DISK ^/oradata/dbw1 80 90
>        PROC ora_dbw1_wssu1
>
>
> I expect this to be ready for the 5.0 release, since this release involves
> a lot of enhancements to the xymond_client / analysis.cfg code.
>
> I have cross-posted this mail to the normal Xymon mailing list, since I
> expect there may be others who are interested in this. I hope you don't
> mind.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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