[Xymon] Custom Second Network (conn) Test, Round Two...

[Scott Driemeier-Showers]

Experts,

Revisiting a question I asked back in 2017, and is still nagging me today.

We monitor (among many other things) the network connections to our remote offices with Xymon.  Each site has a "primary" network/firewall interface that is monitored using the "conn" test.  I created a custom script to monitor a "secondary" interface (labeled "voip") at each site.  From a purely monitoring and alerting standpoint this combination of tests operates flawlessly.

What I have never been able to get to work is the RRD/graphing on the secondary interface.

To TEST2RRD in xymonserver.cfg I added ",voip=tcp" to the end of the stanza.
To GRAPHS in xymonserver.cfg I added ",voip" to the end of the stanza.
To graphs.cfg I added the [voip] service definition, specifying FNPATTERN ^tcp.voip.(.+).rrd
The script builds results for each interface, set appropriate variable values, and sends data with:
                $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $SRVR.$COLUMN $STAT `date`  \n${MESG} \n&${STAT} ${DATA} \n"

What is NOT happening is the .rrd file is not being created.

Comparing the custom test results with those of the conn test in xymondlog:

# xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog talsau.nmi.dom.voip"
talsau.nmi.dom|voip|green||1682104123|1682449560|1682451360|0|0|192.168.10.250||||N|
green Tue Apr 25 14:06:00 CDT 2023
Service voip on talsau.nmi.dom is OK (up)
&green 10.10.24.251 is alive (16.3 ms)

# xymon 127.0.0.1 "xymondlog talsau.nmi.dom.conn"
talsau.nmi.dom|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1682407336|1682449750|1682451550|0|0|192.168.10.250||||N|
green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Apr 25 14:09:09 2023 conn ok
Service conn on talsau.nmi.dom is OK (up)
&green 192.168.24.251 is alive (22.1 ms)

The only difference I see is the conn test includes "|OrdAstLe|" flags in position 4, where the voip test is blank.

Any thoughts/input would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,
Scott

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