Simon User Guide
Report Templates
Test
This page has information about the Test block, and variables valid within this scope. See the Report Templates page for more information about Simon's report templates.
The Test block includes variables about a test - i.e. values displayed in Simon's Monitor window in the tests table and statistics page.
Variables are tags in the file that are replaced by another value when the report is used. Variables are enclosed in curly braces, and have a variable name optionally followed by any number of parameters, e.g. {status type="icon"}. See the parameters page for information on the available parameters.
The variables that are available in this scope include:
| Variable: | Outputs: |
| AverageDuration | The average length of time for a check to complete. |
| AverageFailTime | The average length of time of failures for this test. |
| Changed | "Changed" for a new change, otherwise blank. |
| Checks | The total number of checks for this test. |
| Failed | "Failed" for a current failure, otherwise blank. |
| Failures | The total number of unsuccessful checks for this test. |
| LastChange | The date and time of the most recent time the site changed. |
| LastChangeTextWithHTML | The full text from the most recent check (between any Start and End blocks), with HTML tags included. |
| LastChangeTextWithoutHTML | The text from the most recent check (between any Start and End blocks), with HTML tags stripped out. |
| LastCheck | The date and time of the most recent check. |
| LastDifference | The text that was different between the most recent two checks (old name, new templates should use LastDifferenceWithHTML instead.). |
| LastDifferenceWithHTML | The text that was different between the most recent two checks, with HTML tags included. |
| LastDifferenceWithoutHTML | The text that was different between the most recent two checks, with HTML tags stripped out. |
| LastDowntime | The duration of the most recent failure. |
| LastDuration | The length of time that the most recent check took to complete. |
| LastError | The error message of the most recent failure. |
| LastEvent | The date and time of the most recent change, failure, or recovery. |
| LastFailure | The date and time of the most recent failure. |
| LastRecovery | The date and time of the most recent recovery from a failure. |
| Location | URL, domain, or other location that this test checks. |
| MaxDuration | The longest length of time for a check to complete. |
| MaxFailTime | The longest interval the test has failed. |
| MinDuration | The shortest length of time for a check to complete. |
| MinFailTime | The shortest interval the test has failed. |
| Name | Name of the test. |
| NextCheck | The date and time that Simon will next check this test. |
| Recoveries | The total number of times the test has recovered from a failure. |
| Service | Type of Service used for the test. |
| ShortName | Name of the test, converted to lowercase and with non-letter characters removed. |
| Status | An indication of the current status of the test. Also supports icon output. |
| Successes | The total number of successful checks for this test. |
| Unviewed | "Yes" if this test is marked as unviewed, otherwise "No". Also supports icon output. |
| UpTime | Percentage of successes to failures. |
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