[Xymon] how to add a specific http timeout

Neil Simmonds Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk
Tue Feb 14 10:17:05 CET 2012


I've been looking at setting one of our systems to have a different
timeout on the http test to the default 10 seconds.

 

I've followed the instructions from Henrik,

 

> 1) Add the "--test-untagged" option to your current xymonnet command
in tasks.cfg
> 
> 2) Add "NET:slowtests" to this particular host in hosts.cfg
> 
> 3) In a script, set XYMONNETWORK="slowtests" (remember to export it!)
and then run the xymonnet command
to do the test of this one host, with the different --timeout option
> 
> 4) Add a new section to tasks.cfg to run the test script.

 

 

Yet it's not working. 

 

This is my xymonnet entry in tasks.cfg

 

[xymonnet]

        ENVFILE /xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg

        NEEDS xymond

        CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --test-untagged

        LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log

        INTERVAL 5m

 

My entry in hosts.cfg looks like this,

 

***.**.**.**    Matrix        #
http://***.**.**.**:8080/4daction/getImageData?u=419520 NET:slowtests

 

My script looks like this,

 

#!/bin/sh

 

XYMONNETWORK="slowtests"

export XYMONNETWORK

 

$XYMONHOME/bin/xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timeout=20

 

And finally my extra entry in tasks.cfg looks like this,

 

## Xymonnet test with 20 second timeout

[slowtests]

        ENVFILE /xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg

        NEEDS xymond

        CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/slowtests.sh

        LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/slowtests.log

        INTERVAL 5m

 

This is all running on Xymon 4.3.4

 

Can anyone spot where I might have gone wrong.

 

Thanks,

 

Neil Simmonds

Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group)
Express Gifts Limited

Express House

Clayton Business Park

Accrington

Lancashire

BB5 5JY 
T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk 

 

 

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