[Xymon] combostatus broken [was: Xymon 4.3.20-RC1 Available]

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 2:44 pm, John Thurston wrote:
> On 5/12/2015 6:20 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> ...
>> Please take a pounding on it and let me know if you notice any problems
>> --
>
> combostatus doesn't seem to be working as expected.
>
> Lines in combo.cfg of the form:
>   f.bar.com.conn = foo.bar.com.conn
> work just fine.
>
> Lines of the form:
>   f.bar.com.conn = foo.bar.com.conn + baz.bar.com.conn
> also seem to work fine.
>
> But lines containing any constants seem to fail:
>   f.bar.com.conn = foo.bar.co.connm + 1
> leave footprints in the debug log like:
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.838687 Item '1' has no testname part
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.838886 Item '1' has no testname part
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839026 Invalid data for symbol calculation - missing
>> host/testname: 1
>> 26080 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839158 Symbolic 'foo.bar.com.conn+1' converted
>> to '1+0'
>
> and things like:
>   f.bar.com.conn = (foo.bar.com.conn + baz.bar.com.conn ) >= 1
> leave footprints in the debug log like:
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839331 Item '1' has no testname part
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839476 Item '1' has no testname part
>> 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839609 Invalid data for symbol calculation - missing
>> host/testname: 1
>> 26080 2015-05-12 13:37:38.839775 Symbolic
>> '(foo.bar.com.conn+baz.bar.com.conn)>=1' converted to '(1+1)>=0'
>
>
> It seems to assume everything must be a host.test name-pair doesn't seem
> able to parse the constants off the line. Yes, this is still under
> Solaris 10 on sparc.
>


Hi,

I suspect this is actually related to
https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7610/ (adding initial-digit support
for hostnames to combo.cfg). Taking a closer look now.


Regards,

-jc