[Xymon] White icons and ping

[Richard L. Hamilton]

AFAIK, there is no option for that behavior.

Without the "dialup" tag, if the ping fails, the others in time go purple (unresponsive)...unless perhaps some firewall has changed, and the systems are reachable (so that other tests succeed) but pings are being blocked.

With the "dialup" tag, it's not actually an error for a system to not be up and/or reachable all the time, so if the ping fails, the other columns go clear (white outline or solid white, depending on how long the status has remained unchanged).

So for instance my laptop is tagged as "dialup", as are VMs I don't intend to have up all the time - still useful to have health checks such as for disk space when they are up and reachable.

Not sure why you'd have the other columns going white if the "dialup" tag is not present for that host in hosts.cfg.

> On Dec 13, 2017, at 02:46, Pierre L <pierre.lapha at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have build a nice monitoring solution with xymon but there is one thing I would like to modify but I did not find the option (if it exists).
> Is there a way to avoid white (clear) icons when the ping is down? I mean, when a server is not reachable, the ping icon is red and all the other get white.
> I would like to have all the icons in red, to correctly show the urgency of the problem!
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Pierre
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