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Have network tests report yellow instead of red?

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list John Thurston · Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:19:58 -0800 ·
I must be blind, but I am unable to find a way to have a xymonnet test result go yellow instead of red.

If I have the following line in my hosts.cfg:
0.0.0.0   foo.bar.com # telnet

I'd like the telnet test to report yellow instead of red when the port test is not responding. I see I can prefix it with "?" to have it return clear instead of red, but how can I make it return yellow instead of red?

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list Henrik Størner · Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:59:35 +0100 ·
quoted from John Thurston
Den 2014-03-25 18:19, John Thurston skrev:
I must be blind, but I am unable to find a way to have a xymonnet
test result go yellow instead of red.

If I have the following line in my hosts.cfg:
0.0.0.0   foo.bar.com # telnet

I'd like the telnet test to report yellow instead of red when the
port test is not responding. I see I can prefix it with "?" to have 
it
return clear instead of red, but how can I make it return yellow
instead of red?
Not possible, sorry.

You can use 'delayred' to give it some time to recover without 
triggering an alert.


Regards,
Henrik
list Laurent Royer · Sun, 11 Jan 2015 03:05:56 +0000 ·
Hello,


What a pitty. Some host like webapps are important but not so much in the IT organisation.  So when they go red and propage as red, it's too much comparing the importance of other hosts in the group...


Regards,

Laurent Royer?
list Jeremy Laidman · Fri, 6 Feb 2015 22:45:16 +1100 ·
You can do a few things to work around this:

1) use"delayred" to keep the column from going red immediately (see man
hosts.cfg)
2) use DOWNTIME to define 24x7 that the service is down, so it goes blue
instead of red or yellow

On 11 January 2015 at 14:05, Laurent ROYER <user-15b052bbd14c@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Laurent Royer
wrote:
 Hello,


 What a pitty. Some host like webapps are important but not so much in
the IT organisation.  So when they go red and propage as red, it's too much
comparing the importance of other hosts in the group...


  Regards,

 Laurent Royer​

list Mark Felder · Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:58:25 -0600 ·
quoted from Laurent Royer

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015, at 21:05, Laurent ROYER wrote:
Hello,


What a pitty. Some host like webapps are important but not so much in the
IT organisation.  So when they go red and propage as red, it's too much
comparing the importance of other hosts in the group...

Also, if you want to hide them from the "nongreen" view you can add the
following to XYMONGENOPTS in xymonserver.cfg:

--nongreen-ignore-columns="column"