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

[Jeremy Laidman]

What you could do is send a status message always with "green" but when you
want to change to a non-green colour, send a "modify" message to change to
a different colour.  The man page for xymon has details on the "modify"
message.



On 14 August 2013 14:38, Bryan Levin <blevin at seven.com> wrote:

> yes, in fact, I can get the current color status and then resend it back;
> but its wasteful and I'd prefer not to have to make 2 trips when only 1 is
> needed.
>
> what I am hoping for is a 'no-op' color.  a color you could use which does
> not change colors but only serves to preserve the parameter ordering and
> does the rrd data-throw, only.
>
> if there is not an already-solved way to do this, I will consider editing
> the source to create such a no-op color.
>
>
> ________________________________
> Subject: RE: [Xymon] using the status message to update colors and/or rrd
> values
>
> Why not use xymondboard to get the current color of the test and then echo
> it back with the new text?
>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] using the status message to update colors and/or rrd
> values
>
> I think you can do this with a data message.  But it goes into the
> "heynow" RRD file, and won't show the value on the "heynow" page.  However
> you can have the graph displayed on the page.
>
>
>
> On 14 August 2013 08:42, Bryan Levin <blevin at seven.com<mailto:
> blevin at seven.com>> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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