serverside tests using data from multiple clients?
Here's our situation.
We've got some things we want to watch multiple servers, that will come through as a name-value pair (once we write the local test)
So on server one I might have foo-23 bar-25 and on server two I might have bar- 17 baz 3
We want to to do some tests that would involve adding and correlating all this information. There can be *many* possible names, not just three
What's the most xymon-like way to do it? Can I send data through client tests that is *read* by server-side tests ? (I vaguely remember there was a way to do it but searching is not workign for me today).
One way to do it is to make a log file for each client, rsync the logs to a common location , and then run a single custom test on that location, but that strikes me as beign a bit "outside the box". I want to work within xymon whenever possible, and having individual client tests and the combo test accessible from the xymon interface would b e nice.
thanks for any thoughts or clues
We had something similar at a previous client.
I am assuming that these measures are all related, and you want to see them all in one place? "Invent" a dummy server. Let's call it dserv1
Remember, when you send data from a client, the client name is in the data message. If all of these tests send their data with $MACHINE is set to dserv1, it really doesn't matter where the data comes from, the Xymon server will think it's data from dserv1, and treat it as such.
Now you have all the data in one place, making consolidation relatively trivial.
Regards Vernon
On 23 November 2011 08:13, Elizabeth Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>wrote:
Here's our situation.
We've got some things we want to watch multiple servers, that will come through as a name-value pair (once we write the local test)
So on server one I might have foo-23 bar-25 and on server two I might have bar- 17 baz 3
We want to to do some tests that would involve adding and correlating all this information. There can be *many* possible names, not just three
What's the most xymon-like way to do it? Can I send data through client tests that is *read* by server-side tests ? (I vaguely remember there was a way to do it but searching is not workign for me today).
One way to do it is to make a log file for each client, rsync the logs to a common location , and then run a single custom test on that location, but that strikes me as beign a bit "outside the box". I want to work within xymon whenever possible, and having individual client tests and the combo test accessible from the xymon interface would b e nice.
thanks for any thoughts or clues
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Betsy,
Here's our situation.
We've got some things we want to watch multiple servers, that will come through as a name-value pair (once we write the local test)
So on server one I might have foo-23 bar-25 and on server two I might have bar- 17 baz 3
We want to to do some tests that would involve adding and correlating all this information. There can be *many* possible names, not just three
What's the most xymon-like way to do it? Can I send data through client tests that is *read* by server-side tests ? (I vaguely remember there was a way to do it but searching is not workign for me today).
One way to do it is to make a log file for each client, rsync the logs to a common location , and then run a single custom test on that location, but that strikes me as beign a bit "outside the box". I want to work within xymon whenever possible, and having individual client tests and the combo test accessible from the xymon interface would b e nice.
thanks for any thoughts or clues A couple of options you could try:
- send a 'data' message with you blob of data against a particular test name - doesn't generate a column as such, but gives a way of sending in data. You then need a listener on the data channel to intercept and process the received data.
- hack the client and add a separate section into the client report, then put a listener on the client channel to handle that sections data. Something like http://xymonton.org/monitors:check-client
David.
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