In <4CFF6643.1060308 at free.fr> Francois Claire <fclaire at free.fr> writes:
Sorry but I have to reply to your mail:
Nothing to be sorry for! This list is (also) for discussing how to improve Xymon.
Le 08/12/10 08:32, Henrik St??rner a �crit :
The nongreen page ("bb2" in the older versions) is a bad idea, in my opinion. Trying to fit every non-green status into one single page might work if you have a very small setup, but it just doesn't work at the datacenter level - e.g. right now I have 3575 non-green statuses split over 2650 hosts. And that's a normal Wednesday morning. I stopped generating the nongreen page a long time ago.
In my opinion the non green page is the best feature of xymon :-)
It's obvious that there are many ways of using Xymon, and I should not try to judge one way as "better" than others. That certainly was not my intention. I was merely responding to a request for enhancing the current nongreen page, and in my opinion that should be done differently.
I have no intention of removing the nongreen page - the code is there, it works, and to some Xymon users it is really useful. For others - myself included - it is useless because it is too crowded.
[snip description of a well-run setup]
In the end having a monitoring system with such a constraint implies good IT work rules and the service benefits from that. We're monitoring a quite large network and guess what: our nongreen view is most of the time green ! :-) When it goes red the guys are reacting fast because they know it's serious.
I'd wish I could do that, but it is just not possible for me. So different environments means different needs.
So there are no enhancements planned for the nongreen page.
Fine. Keep it like this it's perfect.
If anything, I would like the static HTML pages (those generated by xymoongen / bbgen) to entirely disappear and be replaced with dynamically generated pages. Then we can start discussing how to configure what they should look like, and in the end we may end up with something that you can configure to work the way you describe :-)
Maybe you could do both: keep the static pages and add dynamically generated pages ?
Sure, there are no plans to remove the nongreen page. But I'd like to do enhancements elsewhere.
Regards, Henrik