Dear J.C.,
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:35:51AM -0700, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
[ Summaries vs Test Name Syntax ]
Is this a recent regression? (I found mails on this list about if
summaries really have been fixed in 4.3.20, but without much details.)
Or am I missing something? Has the format of these messages become
stricter on purpose? If so, where are they documented? The "SENDING
SUMMARIES TO REMOTE XYMON SERVERS" section in hosts.cfg(5) seems to be
about "summary" items inside hosts.cfg, not about the syntax of the
summary messages.
I believe this is a side-effect of
https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7901/ , which tightened rules on both
hostnames and test names. It was documented in the release notes as that,
but didn't mention summaries at all.
No offense meant. I didn't look into the release notes because I was
looking for a general documentation on how summary messages should
look like. I just assumed that the test name syntax got tightened at
some point in the recent past and since it wasn't really important
_when_ this happened, I didn't look at the release notes.
I think you're right in that the tightened rules are hitting the
otherwise-unusual "summary summary.host.test" incorrectly, [...] We
ingest the entire hostsvc here and store it as the testname, which
gets booted out.
Testing a fix now.
Yay, thanks! Looking forward to the fix and will happily test it here.
which is what's expected (and what is generated by xymongen and
everything else)...
Didn't get that part. Parsed it as "It's incorrect, but expected." and
that doesn't make sense to me.
Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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