[Xymon] xymon feature I would like to add

[Kevin Hanrahan]

When do you anticipate the 5.0 release?


On Mar 19, 2013, at 5:10 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
> 
> 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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