[Xymon] Show trends graph as test?

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:52 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Using Xymon 4.3.7 I see that the 'trends' column can show graphs for the
> host network interface (network traffic/bits per second) and disk I/O
> utilisation (from iostat). My understanding is that the information
> comes from each host via the client data.
> 
> My question is, is it possible to get these two items reported as
> separate tests? That is, as a test named (say) 'iostat' which shows the
> disk I/O utilisation graph as seen in 'trends'. And another test called
> 'netstat' (or 'ifstat') for the network traffic graph?
> 
> The data is already being collected (as evidenced by the trends column),
> but I'm not sure how to breakout these graphs so that they can be
> reported as individual specific tests with their own column.
> 
Yeah, forget all that :-) I wasn't thinking really. Doing this then what
would the 'test' be - i.e. what defines when it goes yellow or red?



John.

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