[Xymon] Xymon server report purple because custom client script do not report often enough

[Kim Johansen]

Thank you both,

That was the part I have missed, now it is working fine.

Have great day,

Kim

On 07/10/2015 11:04 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> You'll want to set the lifetime so that it spans several reporting 
> intervals.  The default interval is 5 minutes, with a lifetime of 30 
> minutes, so that multiple reports can be missed before it shows purple 
> dots.  With a 60 minute interval, you should set the lifetime to at 
> least 120: status+120
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Scot Kreienkamp 
> <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com <mailto:Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Xymon expects results every 5-10 minutes or the test will turn
>     purple to indicate no report has been received.  If you really
>     want it to run every 60 minutes you need to put something to
>     indicate that in the test.  In the text sent back to the server
>     you have to put something like status+60m or something like that. 
>     Look in the xymon man pages for the exact syntax.
>
>
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>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com
>     <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Kim
>     > Johansen
>     > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 4:34 PM
>     > To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>     > Subject: [Xymon] Xymon server report purple because custom
>     client script
>     > do not report often enough
>     >
>     > Hey,
>     >
>     > I have made a script which count how many times a string appears
>     in a
>     > log file. Nothing special. And it works fine.
>     >
>     > Doing the testing of this script I made the interval to 1m, just
>     so I
>     > did not have to wait to long to test changes.
>     >
>     > Now that I finish with the script I want the interval, configured in
>     > clientlaunch.cfg, to run every 60m, so I have changed it in
>     > clientlaunch.cfg.
>     >
>     > But that result in the xymon server is complaining about stop
>     reporting
>     > from the client on this custom check.
>     >
>     > I have tried to delete the test status from the server, but with
>     no luck.
>     >
>     > Is there something I have misunderstood and is there a way to
>     fix it?
>     >
>     > Clientlaunch.cfg
>     > [razor-count]
>     >       ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>     >       CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/razor-report-count.sh
>     >       LOGFILE /var/log/hobbit/razor-report-count.log
>     >       INTERVAL 60m
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Kim.
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