On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:38 AM usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have these two tests in my hosts.cfg
page development development xx.202.xxx.xxx JIRA #https://xx.202.xxx.xxx:8443/login.jsp NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,conn xx.202.xxx.xxx Stash #https://xx.202.xxx.xxx:8444 NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,conn
So, for grins, I wanted to make sure I'll get alerted so I changed the port to some port not being used, like below:
xx.202.xxx.xxx JIRA #https://xx.202.xxx.xxx:4443/login.jsp NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,conn xx.202.xxx.xxx Stash #https://xx.202.xxx.xxx:4444 NOCOLUMNS:info,trends,conn
What is happening is that in the nongreen.html status window, the side bar is not turning red but staying green but the little tiny faces went from green to white and I did not get alerted.
It's as if you have "--ignorecolumns=http" or "--nopropred=http" for the xymongen command, or something like that.
Below is what is in my alerts.cfg
alerts.cfg is only used when generating emails. It doesn't affect the display. If you don't get a red/yellow then you won't get an alert. Nothing you can put into or take out of alers.cfg will affect the display.
You could try running xymonnet manually with "--debug" and/or "--dump" arguments. I would extract one host for testing, put it into a different hosts.cfg file, and then point xymonnet to that file by setting HOSTSCFG=/tmp/hosts.cfg or simlar.
Hmm. I notice you've suppressed conn messages from displaying (with NOCOLUMNS) but you haven't included "noconn" to stop the conn tests from taking place. I wonder if you removed "conn" from NOCOLUMNS, you might see it going red. When a ping (conn) test goes red, other network tests go clear. If this is the case, simply add "noconn" wherever you have NOCOLUMNS:conn.
Cheers Jeremy