[Xymon] New remote summaries fail with "Invalid new testname" with at least 4.3.27

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 8/3/2016 10:35 AM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> On 8/3/2016 7:19 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have a few scripts which generate their own web page and only send
>> summaries to the Xymon server. In the past, these messages worked and
>> looked like this:
>>
>>    summary summary.mac.$vlan $topcolor http://$myname/mac/$vlan.html 
>> $date
>>
>> "mac" showed up as row/hostname and $vlan showed up as column/test.
>>
>> With not yet received values for $vlan, we get "Bogus message from …:
>> Invalid new testname: 'mac.dc2552'" error messages in the display of
>> the xymond test.
>>
>> According to the xymond/xymond.c source code at line 620, that format
>> (especially "summary summary" seems expected.
>>
>> But then again, if I look at the line generating that error message
>> (line 1254 in the same file), it seems that dots are no more allowed
>> in test names. (Existing ones are still allowed, probably in line
>> 1251, and hence do not generate these errors and show up.)
>>
>> So I tried to send messages of the format
>>
>>    summary mac.$vlan $topcolor http://$myname/mac/$vlan.html $date
>>
>> But now the Remote Status Display table vanished completely from
>> nongreen.html and I get "Hostname 'mac' in tree, but no host-info"
>> warnings in the display of the xymond test.
>>
>> So I reverted that change and now the Remote Status Display table is
>> back, but so are the "Invalid new testname" errors.
>>
>> Is this a recent regression? (I found mails on this list about if
>> summaries really have been fixed in 4.3.20, but without much details.)
>>
>> Or am I missing something? Has the format of these messages become
>> stricter on purpose? If so, where are they documented? The "SENDING
>> SUMMARIES TO REMOTE XYMON SERVERS" section in hosts.cfg(5) seems to be
>> about "summary" items inside hosts.cfg, not about the syntax of the
>> summary messages.
>>
>>         Kind regards, Axel Beckert
>
> Hi Axel,
>
> I believe this is a side-effect of 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7901/ , which tightened rules on 
> both hostnames and test names. It was documented in the release notes 
> as that, but didn't mention summaries at all.
>
> I think you're right in that the tightened rules are hitting the 
> otherwise-unusual "summary summary.host.test" incorrectly, which is 
> what's expected (and what is generated by xymongen and everything 
> else)... We ingest the entire hostsvc here and store it as the 
> testname, which gets booted out.
>
> Testing a fix now.
>
> Regards,
> -jc 


I failed to mention... This would have come in in 4.3.26.

-jc