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Developer question - number of tests?

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list John Horne · Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:40:38 +0000 ·
Hello,

The xymonnet and xymongen web pages include an entry for the total number of
hosts being tested. What I was also looking for though was if the total number
of tests was recorded too?

Tests such as 'procs', which may test for several processes being present,
should be counted as one test.

I'll carry on looking through the (Terabithia 4.3.30 RPM) code, but if anyone
knows of a variable already being used to record the number of tests, then I
would be grateful to know what it is.


Thanks,

John.

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list Andy Smith · Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:29:25 +0100 ·
Hi,

Open the trends page for your xymon server and on any chart, edit the 
URL from (say) service=la to service=xymon1 eg:-

    https://foo.bar.com/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=foo.bar.com&service=xymon1&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1&disp=foo.bar.com&graph_start=1570644139&graph_end=1570816939&action=menu

You will get a chart showing the number of 'Items', which is actually 
what appears on the xymongen page as 'Status messages', (NB, 
service=xymon displays the number of Hosts ):-


          Fri Oct 11 19:18:20 2019

    xymongen for Xymon version 4.3.28 Statistics:
    Hosts : 34
    Pages : 7
    Status messages : 258

or from the command line :-

    bash-3.2$ xymon 127.0.0.1 'xymondboard fields=hostname test=info' | wc -l
           34
    bash-3.2$ xymon 127.0.0.1 'xymondboard ' | egrep -v '(trends|info)' | awk -F\| '{print $1}' | wc -l
          258

However, if you have Windows powershell clients, this is probably wrong, 
you need to exclude the clientlog test as well:-

    bash-3.2$ xymon 127.0.0.1 'xymondboard ' | egrep -v '(trends|info|clientlog)' | awk -F\| '{print $1}' | wc -l

     ???? 242

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Andy
quoted from John Horne

On 11/10/2019 15:40, John Horne wrote:
Hello,

The xymonnet and xymongen web pages include an entry for the total number of
hosts being tested. What I was also looking for though was if the total number
of tests was recorded too?

Tests such as 'procs', which may test for several processes being present,
should be counted as one test.

I'll carry on looking through the (Terabithia 4.3.30 RPM) code, but if anyone
knows of a variable already being used to record the number of tests, then I
would be grateful to know what it is.


Thanks,

John.

--
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list John Horne · Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:48:13 +0000 ·
quoted from Andy Smith
On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 19:29 +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,

Open the trends page for your xymon server and on any chart, edit the URL
from (say) service=la to service=xymon1 eg:-
https://foo.bar.com/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=foo.bar.com&service=xymon1&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1&disp=foo.bar.com&graph_start=1570644139&graph_end=1570816939&action=menu
You will get a chart showing the number of 'Items', which is actually what
appears on the xymongen page as 'Status messages', (NB, service=xymon
displays the number of Hosts ):-
Fri Oct 11 19:18:20 2019
xymongen for Xymon version 4.3.28 Statistics:
Hosts : 34
Pages : 7
Status messages : 258
or from the command line :-
bash-3.2$ xymon 127.0.0.1 'xymondboard fields=hostname test=info' | wc -l
      34
bash-3.2$ xymon 127.0.0.1 'xymondboard ' | egrep -v '(trends|info)' | awk
-F\| '{print $1}' | wc -l
     258
Hello,

Okay, thanks for that. However, what I was looking for was something in the
actual source code that provided the number of tests. (I still haven't found
anything, so it probably isn't there.) I'm trying to sort out a request at work
which requires modifying the code a little bit. To resolve it I need to know
the number of tests.


John.
quoted from John Horne
On 11/10/2019 15:40, John Horne wrote:
Hello,

The xymonnet and xymongen web pages include an entry for the total number
of hosts being tested. What I was also looking for though was if the total
number of tests was recorded too?

Tests such as 'procs', which may test for several processes being present,
should be counted as one test.

I'll carry on looking through the (Terabithia 4.3.30 RPM) code, but if
anyone knows of a variable already being used to record the number of
tests, then I would be grateful to know what it is.

--
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University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK
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list John Horne · Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:27:13 +0000 ·
quoted from John Horne
On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 20:48 +0000, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 19:29 +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,

Open the trends page for your xymon server and on any chart, edit the URL
from (say) service=la to service=xymon1 eg:-
https://foo.bar.com/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=foo.bar.com&service=xymon1&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1&disp=foo.bar.com&graph_start=1570644139&graph_end=1570816939&action=menu
...
Okay, thanks for that. However, what I was looking for was something in the
actual source code that provided the number of tests. (I still haven't found
anything, so it probably isn't there.)
Just to say thanks for the reply again. Although I said it wasn't really what I
was looking for, it did make me think. The graph has the value I wanted, so
where did it get that? This led me to the RRD file (and the relevant field in
it), which in turn led me to the RRD file being updated and eventually to
xymongen itself. Anyway, I eventually got to the 'statuscount' being set and
could see that it was the number of tests - the value I wanted.
quoted from John Horne

Thanks,

John.

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University of Plymouth | Drake Circus | Plymouth | Devon | PL4 8AA | UK
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