On Mon, April 4, 2016 3:18 pm, Jason Brockdorf wrote:

I've successfully set up monitoring for, and the ability to log in to a website on my xymon, and the content and https checks both work, but I'd also like the content column to be affected by the response time.

The man page for analysis.cfg says I can use a DS tag to do so, but it also says that there's a colon in the syntax...

DS column filename:dataset rules COLOR=colorname TEXT=explanation

The problem I'm having is that the rrd filename (which was created automatically by xymon) has a colon in it. How would I handle this while setting up my analysis.cfg file? Do I escape that colon somehow? Double/single quote the filename?

Does anyone here know or do I have to dig into the source? I was unable to find an answer in the man pages.

xymond_rrd will search for the last colon in that field, so the colons in the URL should be okay. The '/''s in the URL, however, may need to be rewritten as commas to match.

I had considered adding in a patch to allow HTTP URL's to be substituted with a status column name for RRD purposes, when one is supplied (using the =col syntax), which might help in this case as well. The original requirement for that one was a URL with a CGI query that changed from time to time but whose history we'd wanted to keep.

HTH, -jc