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HTTP test -- 404 results in yellow status?

list Adam Goryachev
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:11:07 +1100
Message-Id: <user-540079dce13a@xymon.invalid>

Hi Shawn

The status page should say how long the status has been that colour for, 
or else you can click the history button to see more details and when 
the status changed colour.

Regards,
Adam

On 06/10/15 03:40, Shawn Heisey wrote:
Below is the text of the status page for the HTTP test on one of my
hosts, copied out of a browser window.  Note that the specific test line
shows "red" (the X icon) ... but this test as a whole is showing a
yellow status, and therefore we did not receive an alarm notification.
This is monitoring a production website and we were notified of the
problem by the customer, not our own monitoring.  This makes us look
unprofessional.

Why would a 404 response code not result in a red status, especially
when the inner test is marked red in the text?  The Xymon server is
version 4.3.21, built as an RPM from unmodified source.

I do have "delayred=http:10" on the hosts.cfg line.  Could this be a
case where the customer notified us before the delayred period expired?

Thanks,
Shawn


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Mon Oct 5 10:29:12 2015: Not Found


red http://spark.REDACTED.com:8080/ - Not Found

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Length: 0
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:28:24 GMT
Connection: close

Seconds:     0.01

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