Replace test with script? 🔗 link

Hello,

Using Xymon 4.3.7 does anyone know if it is possible to replace a
xymonnet test with a local test of the same name? I want to replace the
'dns' test with one run as a script on clients.

Obviously I can disable the current 'dns' test, but I am a bit loathe to
name a DNS test anything other than 'dns' :-)


John.

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Not really possible, AFAIK. Sounds like something that would somehow bite
someone in the future, regardless :)

Your best bet is probably just to give your test a different name
completely (eg, nslookup, bind, resolv, etc...). Just not 'dig', which is
internally an an alias to 'dns'.


Regards,

-jc

I think you can call it DNS.  The column titles are case sensitive.  Or just call it clientdns or some such thing.

Scot Kreienkamp
user-462cf0b6d846@xymon.invalid

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Not really possible, AFAIK. Sounds like something that would somehow bite
someone in the future, regardless :)

Your best bet is probably just to give your test a different name
completely (eg, nslookup, bind, resolv, etc...). Just not 'dig', which is
internally an an alias to 'dns'.


Regards,

-jc

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On 14-05-2012 16:04, John Horne wrote:

You can, as long as you don't have "dns" test defined in the hosts.cfg. Without that definition, you won't have Xymon reporting any data into a "dns" status for that host; but there is nothing barring another script from reporting data and calling it "dns".

You might have a broken graph, unless your script puts a "Seconds: 1.234" line at the bottom of the status message, since the Xymon graph module will expect "dns" data to be in the normal network-test format. If that bothers you, then remove "dns" from the TEST2RRD and GRAPHS settings in xymonserver.cfg and restart Xymon.


Regards,
Henrik

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM, John Horne <user-e95f1ec2f147@xymon.invalid> wrote:

To me this falls into the category of "things that will confuse the
heck out of the person who replaces me after I am  hit by a bus"
I try to avoid doing stuff like that and if I do, I try to document it
in very bold letters...

Don't mean to sound flip, I'm old enough to have seen this happen a few times.

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:59 -0400, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:

Oh we are way beyond that :-)

I have been complaining about the lack of additional Linux and UNIX
support here for well over a decade! What has happened? Nothing at all.
I am still the sole person dealing with the central Linux/UNIX boxes.
So, I'm beyond worrying about doing things that may confuse others.

Having said that, I have opted for making the client script report as a
'dnsr' test (for DNS resolution), and leave the supplied 'dns' test
alone.

John.

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