Best way to monitor for configuration value?

Xymon already tracks how long a test has been yellow, red, green, etc.
 Just mouse over the colored dot...  You can also get that info from the
xymon server.  Check the xymon(1) man page for the "xymondboard" command.

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Betsy Schwartz <user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid>wrote:

Thanks, that is very interesting, I did not know the features could be
put together like that!
don't think that will work though because it's not going to clear when
the variable changes

(I'm starting to imagine something sick and twisted that *would*....)

anyway just for fun the requestor added a third requirement which is
to track how long it's been yellow, so I am definitely doing a custom
test (in anticipation of requirements #4...#n...)


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jeremy Laidman
<user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 21 September 2012 01:25, Betsy Schwartz <user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

To clarify:

We are OK with having the configuration file changing, we are just

No problem.

New requirement:
   var=ON may or may not exist, this is the default state.
   we just need to go yellow if var=OFF

No problem.

Sounds like a custom test is what I need.

Nah, then you gotta deploy and manage the custom test on each of your
client
hosts, and be sure to install it on any new hosts that come along.  I
hate
that.

In client-local.cfg, add the following:
[name-of-client]
    file:`grep -i "^var=OFF$" /path/to/file >/tmp/varcheck; echo
/tmp/varcheck`

Then, in analysis.cfg, add the following:
HOST=name-of-client
    FILE /tmp/varcheck YELLOW SIZE>0

Won't that do what you need?

J