Combo tests / feature request
Hi list,
I'm using combo tests to test cluster logic. In one of the cases we're using a combo test for 2 IP addresses/cluster nodes.
If an engineer plans work on one of the 2 cluster nodes (s)he disables all tests related to that cluster node, resulting in a blue status for them. But this situation turns the combo test RED, which is normal according to the documentation:
"A simple test - e.g. "Web1.http" - results in the value "1" if
the "http" test for server "Web1" is green, yellow or clear. It yields the value "0" if it is red, purple or blue."
In our case disabling the combo test would also be required too to prevent alerts being generated for the combo test.
My request is that it would be nice to have the ability to define which colours have a 1 value and which have a 0 value, which would make combo rules even more flexible. It might be that this behaviour is already available, but then I have overlooked this.
What are your thoughts?
Jelle Smet.
-----Original Message----- From: Jelle Smet [mailto:Jelle.Smet at teleatlas.com] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Combo tests / feature request
"A simple test - e.g. "Web1.http" - results in the value "1" if the "http" test for server "Web1" is green, yellow or clear. It yields the value "0" if it is red, purple or blue."
In our case disabling the combo test would also be required too to prevent alerts being generated for the combo test.
My request is that it would be nice to have the ability to define which colours have a 1 value and which have a 0 value, which would make combo rules even more flexible. It might be that this behaviour is already available, but then I have overlooked this.
What are your thoughts?
Sounds reasonable to me. A blue status, IMHO, should always map to a "no problem" state. It might be distinguished from a clear status, which is sort of an "abstain".
-jc
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jcleaver@soe.sony.com
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Jelle.Smet@teleatlas.com