[Xymon] Please help Re: Please clarify: http yellow when delayred is set? Or, what makes http yellow?

[Xymon User in Richmond]

I'm confused about this, Elizabeth, and must be missing something.  Your
original setup had the 3 urls on one  host line, with delayred=10 set as a
default.  On a failure, the red was delayed 10 minutes, as configured.
It's not clear why the yellow in the interim is a problem, but I'd try
using delayyellow=11 if I wanted to leave it green until the red kicked
in.  Or is it that you want this one not to use the .default delayred and
go red immediately?  Wouldn't setting delayred=0 on that particular host
do that?

(The manpage also indicates that delayred should be silently ignored on a
.default entry, but what you're describing seems to indicate that it does
work)

I'm sure that when you tell me where I'm off track, I'll face-palm.

regards,
j.

On Fri, June 15, 2012 16:33, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
> That is a good workaround, thanks. The workaround I chose was to make
> this particular alert page on yellow. But I really need to clarify my
> understanding of why an http alert would turn yellow. We have a *lot*
> of mission-critical http alerts.
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I don't know why it's flagging the way it is, but could you break it out
>> into individual checks?
>>
>>
>>      10.1.2.3   web1.example.com #  CLASS:webzone ssh apache
>> http://web1.example.com/url1.htm
>>      0.0.0.0     web1-url2               # noconn
>> http://web1.example.com/url2.cfm
>>      0.0.0.0     web1-url3               # noconn
>> http://web1.example.com/url3.cfm
>>
>> It's not ideal, but it would give you separate visibility and reporting
>> until the yellow/red problem is worked out.
>>
>> Ralph Mitchell
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Betsy Schwartz
>> <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Any thought on this? We just had another missed outage. I am going to
>>> have
>>> to start paging on http yellow until this is resolved - UGH
>>> Thanks Betsy
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have this default set:
>>> > 0.0.0.0   .default.   # DOWNTIME=0:0000:0300 delayred=http:10
>>> >
>>> > and servers that are monitoring three URL's  like so:
>>> >
>>> > 10.1.2.3   web1.example.com #  CLASS:webzone ssh apache
>>> > http://web1.example.com/url1.htm http://web1.example.com/url2.cfm
>>> > http://web1.example.com/url3.cfm
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > What I'm seeing is, with one URL going red with a timeout after 22
>>> > seconds, the http test is going YELLOW and then going RED ten minutes
>>> > later. Does delayred turn the test yellow? If not, why is this test
>>> > turning yellow? We want it to be RED.
>>> >
>>> > What exactly determines whether an http test is red or yellow?
>>> >
>>> > thanks Betsy
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