noconn & purple status 🔗 link

Hi there,

While setting some hosts with noconn tag (intermitently online), I faced a behavior that seems not optimal.
Some of the tests were not running correctly, but their status stayed white (hence not propagated to non-green page), keeping me ignorant of this issue.
I'd like these device tests to be considered online or offline all together.

E.g: when CPU test status is green|yellow|red, the other tests are expected to report a status as well. If not, they should be purple.

I hope my explanations are clear.

My questions:
-does anyone know how to configure Xymon to behave this way?
-if not, does any of your have any idea how to achieve this?
-if not, may I expect a change in future (if any) Xymon release?

Regards,
Damien

Hi Damian,

I could be wrong, but I think that replacing noconn with dialup might 
suit you better.

HTH

Jeremy

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Subject: [Xymon] noconn & purple status

Hi Jeremy,

My bad, the tag I'm using is dialup, not noconn...

Le 25/04/2024 11:58, Jeremy Ruffer a ?crit?:

Since you are using "dialup", no tests will go purple, they will instead go
clear (white) if no report is received.  That is by design (see man
hosts.cfg).  If you want it to generate the alert for other tests while
ignoring the "ping" connection test status, then perhaps you need to use
the "?conn" tag.  This will make it perform the ping test, but report a
clear status if it does not answer.  Other tests should still report their
normal status.

Tom

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