Bug - xymon man page shows data parameter incorrectly
Hello,
In Xymon 4.3.7 the 'xymon(1)' man page shows for the 'data' message type the arguments as:
data HOSTNAME.DATANAME<newline><additional text>As far as I can tell this should be 'HOSTNAME.TESTNAME'.
Attached are two patches to fix this (one for the 'man' page, the other for the HTML version). Both are just one-line patches.
John.
-- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001
On 20-04-2012 18:10, John Horne wrote:
Hello,
In Xymon 4.3.7 the 'xymon(1)' man page shows for the 'data' message type the arguments as:
data HOSTNAME.DATANAME<newline><additional text>As far as I can tell this should be 'HOSTNAME.TESTNAME'.
I don't think so. The difference between a "status" and a "data" message is precisely that a data-message does not result in any test-status column appearing on the Xymon display, so "DATANAME" is just that - an identifier for the type of data inside the data-message. It could be the output from some test - but if you test something, don't you want it to show up as a status on the webpage ? And if so, then you would use a "status" message instead of "data".
"data" messages are commonly used for e.g. performance metrics like network traffic counters, various data from "vmstat" and so on. I wouldn't think of those as "tests" - they're just data.
So I think that calling it a "testname" would be misleading.
Regards, Henrik
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 22:56 +0200, Henrik Størner wrote:
On 20-04-2012 18:10, John Horne wrote:
Hello,
In Xymon 4.3.7 the 'xymon(1)' man page shows for the 'data' message type the arguments as:
data HOSTNAME.DATANAME<newline><additional text>As far as I can tell this should be 'HOSTNAME.TESTNAME'.
I don't think so.
Rats! I knew I should have asked first. I just couldn't tell if it was deliberate or a typo :-)
Thanks for the explanation.
John.
-- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001
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