combostatus - Xymon combination test tool
combostatus --help
combostatus --version
combostatus [--debug] [--quiet]
combostatus is a Xymon extension script that runs on the Xymon server. It
combines the results of one or more of the normal Xymon test results into a
combined test result, using standard arithmetic og logical operators.
The resulting tests are sent to the Xymon display server as any normal test - so
all of the standard Xymon functions (history, statistics etc.) are available
for the combined tests.
The tool was born from the need to monitor systems with built-in redundancy and
automatic failover - e.g. load-balanced web servers. But other uses are
possible.
- --error-colors=COLOR[,COLOR]
- Specify which colors trigger an error status. By default
only a "red" status counts as an error color - all other colors,
including yellow, will count as "green" when evaluating the
combined status. COLOR is "red", "yellow",
"blue", "purple" or "clear".
- --quiet
- Normally, the test status sent by combostatus includes
information about the underlying test results used to determine the
current value of the combined test. "--quiet" eliminates this
information from the test status page.
- --debug
- Provide debugging output for use in troubleshooting
problems with combostatus.
- --no-update
- Don't send any status messages - instead, the result of the
combotests is simply dumped to stdout. Useful for debugging.
- $XYMONHOME/etc/combo.cfg
- Configuration file for combostatus, where the combined
tests are defined
- $XYMONHOME/etc/tasks.cfg
- Configuration file controlling when combostatus is run.
combo.cfg(5),
hosts.cfg(5),
xymonserver.cfg(5),
tasks.cfg(5)