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DOWNTIME for http content checks

list Ryan Novosielski
Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:22:01 -0400
Message-Id: <user-837d4a8ce4fe@xymon.invalid>

On Aug 22, 2014, at 9:21, "Mike Burger" <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid> 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.