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Windows Powershell client v2.00

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list Zak Beck · Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:56:49 +0000 ·
Hi

 
I have today committed v2.00. Changes:

 
* added RepeatTest - a way of having a test repeated as many times as you
need with a new name so you can configure custom alerts

* added event logs summary to msgs tab

* amend log so that it can optionally take a parameter to control how long
before old log entries roll off the report - this done by manipulating how
many positions are saved for a log file

 
The XymonPSClient.doc file has been updated.

 
The big new feature is repeattest - this may be useful if you have multiple
teams looking after different aspects of your servers, for example, a DBA
team responsible for databases and an Ops team responsible for everything
else. Repeattest allows you to create duplicates of your test data that
appear as extra entries on the dashboard and therefore you can create
separate alert configurations. It also allows you to trigger red or yellow
statuses depending on the data in the duplicated test result.

Zak
list Jeremy Laidman · Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:49:15 +1100 ·
quoted from Zak Beck
On 12 March 2015 at 20:56, <user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid> wrote:
The big new feature is repeattest – this may be useful if you have
multiple teams looking after different aspects of your servers, for
example, a DBA team responsible for databases and an Ops team responsible
for everything else. Repeattest allows you to create duplicates of your
test data that appear as extra entries on the dashboard and therefore you
can create separate alert configurations. It also allows you to trigger red
or yellow statuses depending on the data in the duplicated test result.

This is an interesting feature.  I think it would be useful for this to be
implemented server-side so that any OS can benefit from it, and also to
reduce duplicated messages.  Although it will take a bit more work to
implement and fully test it server-side.

J
list Zak Beck · Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:40:37 +0000 ·
Absolutely agree, the reason we added it to the client was frustration with the current alert capabilities.

 
What we really wanted was more granularity for alerts – the workaround enables this, but it's far from ideal.

Zak 
quoted from Jeremy Laidman

 
From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 16 March 2015 01:49
To: Beck, Zak
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Powershell client v2.00

 
On 12 March 2015 at 20:56, <user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid> > wrote:

The big new feature is repeattest – this may be useful if you have multiple teams looking after different aspects of your servers, for example, a DBA team responsible for databases and an Ops team responsible for everything else. Repeattest allows you to create duplicates of your test data that appear as extra entries on the dashboard and therefore you can create separate alert configurations. It also allows you to trigger red or yellow statuses depending on the data in the duplicated test result.


This is an interesting feature.  I think it would be useful for this to be implemented server-side so that any OS can benefit from it, and also to reduce duplicated messages.  Although it will take a bit more work to implement and fully test it server-side.

 
J