[Xymon] ports check for a VIP...

[Christoph Zechner]

On 01/10/2021 17:39, Ian Diddams wrote:
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> 
>  >Do you also need the connection status as well? "ports" and "conn" are
>  >two different colums, I don't think mixing them would be wise?
> 
> No - TBH not really
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> 
>  >That's why you need the "||", it's an or, so as long as one of your two
>  >hosts is green, your overall status is green.
> 
> yes - but then presumably that emans the other host is red. And that 
> will just spoawn reports form our monitoring team or at the very least 
> obfuscate the page sending it red for no real reason.

It will not spawn any reports or alarm, as long as one of them is green, 
everything is fine. So in your case, there would be three statuses:

1) overall status of this check: green if one is green
2) system A red or green
3) system B reg or green

There are no alarms as long as one of them is green.

> 
> The bottom line is only one server in the cluster has the port in use at 
> any one time and we dont want a "red" simoly becasue that is actually 
> the correct situation.
> 
> cheers
> 
> ian