[Xymon] How to increase max message size

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Ryan Skadberg <skadz at skadz.com> wrote:

> I have a few hosts that are sending large status messages and am getting:
>
> 2011-12-11 20:16:24 Oversize status msg from 64.94.253.22 for
> host.company.com:ports truncated (n=340208, limit=262144)
>
> I've tried increasing MAXLINE in xymonserver.cfg, but that does not seem
> to have fixed the issue.  Where can I increase this, as I'm sick of seeing
> xymond being yellow all the time.
>

You probably need to set MAXMSG_STATUS in xymonserver.cfg.  It defaults to
256, which means 256Kb, which is where your 262144 comes from.

See the "XYMOND SETTINGS" in the xymonserver.cfg man page for details.

Ralph Mitchell
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