In <user-30ada4bfc23f@xymon.invalid> Francois Claire <user-4b143d727ceb@xymon.invalid> writes:
Sorry but I have to reply to your mail:
Nothing to be sorry for! This list is (also) for discussing how
to improve Xymon.
Le 08/12/10 08:32, Henrik St??rner a �crit :
The nongreen page ("bb2" in the older versions) is a bad idea,
in my opinion. Trying to fit every non-green status into one single
page might work if you have a very small setup, but it just
doesn't work at the datacenter level - e.g. right now I have
3575 non-green statuses split over 2650 hosts. And that's a normal
Wednesday morning. I stopped generating the nongreen page a long
time ago.
In my opinion the non green page is the best feature of xymon :-)
It's obvious that there are many ways of using Xymon, and I
should not try to judge one way as "better" than others. That
certainly was not my intention. I was merely responding to a
request for enhancing the current nongreen page, and in my
opinion that should be done differently.
I have no intention of removing the nongreen page - the code is
there, it works, and to some Xymon users it is really useful.
For others - myself included - it is useless because it is
too crowded.
[snip description of a well-run setup]
In the end having a monitoring system with such a constraint implies
good IT work rules and the service benefits from that. We're monitoring
a quite large network and guess what: our nongreen view is most of the
time green ! :-)
When it goes red the guys are reacting fast because they know it's serious.
I'd wish I could do that, but it is just not possible for me. So
different environments means different needs.
So there are no enhancements planned for the nongreen page.
Fine. Keep it like this it's perfect.
If anything, I would like the static HTML pages (those
generated by xymoongen / bbgen) to entirely disappear and be
replaced with dynamically generated pages. Then we can start
discussing how to configure what they should look like, and
in the end we may end up with something that you can configure
to work the way you describe :-)
Maybe you could do both: keep the static pages and add dynamically
generated pages ?
Sure, there are no plans to remove the nongreen page. But I'd like
to do enhancements elsewhere.
Regards,
Henrik