[Xymon] using the status message to update colors and/or rrd values

[Bryan Levin]

hi,

we're using xymon at our company and we have our own data poller which sends updated colors and numerical values to the various objects on the xymon 'map'.

as is typical, our script runs as:

/usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow yellow `date`

heynow : 3.14
'

and this works great when I want to send BOTH a color AND a value to this object.

if I want to send just a new color to this object, the short form also works great:

/usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost 'status+1w 1.2.3.4_abc.heynow yellow'

but is there any way to send JUST the value update and leave the color unchanged?

sometimes we have a trap coming in and that might want to update just the color.  other times, we have a poller (of our own) that does not want to disturb any already-set colors but wants to just throw another sample at the rrd graph that is controlled by this object.

before I dive into the source code, I wonder if this is already supported somehow.

TIA,

.bl