[Xymon] How to retrieve the global state of Xymon?

Sun Feb 18 05:30:29 CET 2024

It's also possible to get the colour from the <TITLE> tag in the <HEAD>
section. The colour is shown immediately after <TITLE>. This is how the old
BBTray tool finds the colour to display in the Windows system tray. I'd
recommend using Tom's technique, but there's a chance your ESP-based client
might (for some reason?) find it easier to parse <TITLE> rather than <BODY>.

In case it wasn't clear, the overall Xymon status is reflected in the
colour of (and tagged within) the main page ("/index.html" or "/") as well
as the non-green page ("/nongreen.html"). If you only want the colour, then
fetching one of these pages and parsing out the colour from the TITLE or
BODY tags is going to be the simplest way.

J

On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 03:10, Tom Schmidt <tom at 4schmidts.com> wrote:

> You could simply look for the '<BODY class="green">' line in the
> ~xymon/server/www/nongreen.html or xymon.html file.  The color shown for
> the "class" will match the overall state.  A simple script could be written
> to run on your xymon server to gather this and send it to your monitor.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM Wim Nelis via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Wim Nelis <wim.nelis at ziggo.nl>
>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:48:14 +0100
>> Subject: How to retrieve the global state of Xymon?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> my current project is (trying to) display the global state of Xymon, that
>> is the state (colour) shown in the main view. A sort of a traffic light is
>> used, which is controlled by an ESP8266 micro controller running
>> microPython.
>>
>>
>> This state must be determined from the states of all the tests, which can
>> be retrieved using the 'xymondboard' command. As far as I know, there is no
>> other way of retrieving the global state of Xymon. Is this correct?
>>
>>
>> The NOPROP* tags seem complicate things. One can retrieve the tag(s) per
>> host, using f.i. 'xymondboard fields=...,XMH_NOPROPRED', but the tag is
>> shown, not the result of combining it with the command line parameters of
>> xymongen. Is there another way of retrieving this information?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>   Wim Nelis.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Wim Nelis via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>> Cc:
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>> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:48:14 +0100
>> Subject: [Xymon] How to retrieve the global state of Xymon?
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