[Xymon] DOWNTIME for http content checks

[Novosielski, Ryan]

> On Aug 22, 2014, at 9:21, "Mike Burger" <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-08-04 2:52 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
>> I've looked at the hosts.cfg man page, I've done some searching of the
>> list archives, and I've done some experimentation of my own, but I
>> seem to be unable to achieve the following:
>> 
>> I have some hosts for which I'd like to perform web content checks.
>> I've got the cont= lines setup like so:
>> 
>> cont=ptlcls2;http://some.host.here:20039/wps/portal/fhmc;"regex[[:space:]]text"
>> 
>> And the alarm works just fine.
>> 
>> I've tried adding:
>> 
>> DOWNTIME=content:*:1435:1445:"some description"
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> DOWNTIME=ptlcls2:*:1435:1445:"some description"
>> 
>> But the new column "ptlcls2" still goes red, rather than blue, during
>> the DOWNTIME period.
>> 
>> The only thing I can think of is that DOWNTIME isn't available for
>> content checks, or that I'm incorrectly specifiying the
>> test/status/column for the DOWNTIME specification. If anyone has any
>> insight as to what I might be doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> 
> No answers on the initial question...so let me follow up with:
> 
> If I set DOWNTIME on "http", will that cover the content checks?

My answer: probably. In fact I might be able to even go by my own experience but I am not able to check at the moment. Easy to verify though -- set it and check the info page for the server.