[Xymon] Missing feature ?

[Becker Christian]

Hello all,

we have Xymon monitoring running on four sites, each site having ~400 devices to monitor.
Xymon has replaced our "old" monitoring solution which was CA Unicenter.

Having used CA Unicenter for many years now and now having changed to Xymon, I have two things that I cannot find:

a)      In CA Unicenter you can acknowledge an red alert. After having acknowledged an red alert, this red alert changes to an orange alert, indicating that there is still  a problem.
The main advantage is, that any "view" on a "higher level" isn't under red condition any longer - it becomes yellow. This means, that a new red alert coming from the same server could be recognized in a better way.
This could be useful if in Xymon somebody doesn't like the "All non green view" for any reason.


b)      The other thing is: for example, in Xymon I have a server on which I'm monitoring many services ( ~ 20 services). If one of those services fails or is administratively disabled, this service becomes red. Now I have the possibility to acknowledge this alert or to disable this test. But, if another service on the same server fails, I cannot recognize this, if the test is disabled. If it is acknowledged, it isn't clear by 100% which on is the most recent one that has failed. This could also affect a server that has many disks. If one disk get's filled by 100%, I cannot see if another disk get's also filled by 100% (if one doesn't like the "All non green view").

Is my thinking wrong?

Regards
Christian

CHRISTIAN BECKER
System Engineer
CSC

August-Horch-Strasse 28, 56070 Koblenz, Germany
Global Outsourcing Services Central Region


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