Thanks Daniel,

I'd found that one, unfortunately a large number of our monitored servers are Aix or Linux and the delay option does not seem to be available on those.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Nordquist, Daniel Sent: 22 July 2011 18:39 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Spikes in activity.

You can use the delay= option in the bbwin.cfg file to delay for a specific number of polling cycles.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of White, Bruce Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:16 AM To: Neil Simmonds; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Spikes in activity.

You can keep alerts from going out with a DELAY option, but I know of no way to "delay" a status color change on a test.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Neil Simmonds Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:51 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Spikes in activity.

Hi all,

I've looked through the documentation for Xymon and I can't seem to find any way to only have an icon colour change if a threshold has been passed for x number of consecutive tests.

I'm aware that alerts allow this kind of thing but would really like the dashboard not to change colour if we just get a spike in disk, cpu or memory usage (amongst other things).

Is there any way to do this?

Regards,

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badTEST is fine for network tests but my bigger concern is for CPU, MEM and DISK tests, none of which seem to have the ability to do this on Aix and Linux (As Daniel mentioned there is the delay option in BBWin but that appears to be only usable for CPU tests).

From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at iastate.edu] Sent: 22 July 2011 19:11 To: Neil Simmonds; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: Spikes in activity.

For the built-in network tests I think badTEST would do what you're asking. (badftp, badssh, badhttp, etc) See http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html.

Cheers.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Neil Simmonds Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:51 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Spikes in activity.

Hi all,

I've looked through the documentation for Xymon and I can't seem to find any way to only have an icon colour change if a threshold has been passed for x number of consecutive tests.

I'm aware that alerts allow this kind of thing but would really like the dashboard not to change colour if we just get a spike in disk, cpu or memory usage (amongst other things).

Is there any way to do this?

Regards,

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On 2011/08/07 05:50 PM, Henrik Størner wrote:

On 21-07-2011 15:51, Neil Simmonds wrote:

...

I’ve looked through the documentation for Xymon and I can’t seem to find any way to only have an icon colour change if a threshold has been passed for x number of consecutive tests.

Patch applies against 4.3.4 - older versions will need some manual tweaking to make it into the xymond.c file. Or wait for 4.3.5.

I can't thank you enough for this patch, it really makes day to day use of Xymon a pleasure.

Any chance you could implement this possibly as a system wide xymonserver.cfg option?

Eg:

xymonserver.cfg .. SVCCODES="disk:100,cpu:200,procs:300,svcs:350,msgs:400,conn:500,http:600,dns:800,smtp:725,telnet:723,ftp:721,pop:810,pop3:810,pop-3: 810,ssh:722,imap:843,ssh1:722,ssh2:722,imap2:843,imap3:843,imap4:843,pop2:809,pop-2:809,nntp:819,test:901" DELAYRED="cpu:15,disk:30" DELAYYELLOW="cpu:10,disk:10" ..

Having > 1000 hosts to monitor / configure means having to apply it to each host individually which can be a pain. Certain hosts obviously need their own/different delayred/delayyellow options but can be overwritten custom delayred/delayyellow in hosts.cfg?

Just an idea.. Thanks again.

Regards, Cami

On 2011/08/08 08:10 AM, Henrik Størner wrote:

On 08-08-2011 07:15, Cami wrote:

...

I can't thank you enough for this patch, it really makes day to day use of Xymon a pleasure.

Any chance you could implement this possibly as a system wide xymonserver.cfg option?

Makes sense - done.

That was fast. Any chance for a patch to test it?

Regards, Cami

Henrik,

Thanks very much for this. That's exactly what we needed.

After years of working with IBM Tivoli monitoring it's very refreshing to get a response like this to an issue.

Regards, Neil.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner Sent: 07 August 2011 16:50 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Spikes in activity.

On 21-07-2011 15:51, Neil Simmonds wrote:

I've looked through the documentation for Xymon and I can't seem to find any way to only have an icon colour change if a threshold has been passed for x number of consecutive tests.

I'm aware that alerts allow this kind of thing but would really like the dashboard not to change colour if we just get a spike in disk, cpu or memory usage (amongst other things).

Is there any way to do this?

It's been possible for network tests for many years, but that was really a kludge on top of the old Big Brother system.

So your mail provided an excellent excuse for getting this implemented in a generic fashion (so I can deprecate the old network-test-specific method).

The attached patch implements two new settings you can put into hosts.cfg: "delayred" and "delayyellow". So to have the "cpu" status not go red until after 15 minutes and disk status not go red until after half an hour, you would use this:

10.0.0.1 host1.example.com # delayred=cpu:15,disk:30

Patch applies against 4.3.4 - older versions will need some manual tweaking to make it into the xymond.c file. Or wait for 4.3.5.

Regards, Henrik

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