On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:34 +0200, Thomas Kähn wrote:

Hi John,

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:41:07AM +0100, John Horne wrote:

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Is there a way to report a test as purple if it changes from a colour to white?

I'm not sure why it reported white and not purple. The status report from the client was truncated, and I assume the 'files' test, therefore, received no status.

according to the documentation it is possible to tweak the behaviour a little bit:

http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymond_client.8.html

So if you set --no-clear-files the column probably would have switched to purple instead of clear.

Hello,

Thanks for this. However, the man page says:

=========== If there are no file checks, the "files" column will show a "clear" status. If you would rather avoid having a "files" column, this option causes xymond_client to not send in a clear "files" status.

which is a little confusing. We have files to check, and the 'files' column already exists (from previous results). So does this option prevent a *subsequent* status for 'files' from showing white/clear but will default to purple as with other tests. If so, then yes this seems like what we want.

I think I need to experiment a little with it.

John.

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