Thanks Neil. However, the method you use affects all xymonnet tests for the tagged server(s), not just the one causing you timeout problems. In my case, it's unacceptable because it would delay more critical tests like ping tests, and it would take longer for me to find out when a server has gone off-line.<div>
<br></div><div>I just wish xymonnet supported a command-line switch to specify a list of tests to include and/or exclude. Then I could do something like this:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">[sshnormal]<br>
CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --tests:ssh<br> INTERVAL 5m<br><br>[sshslow]<br> CMD ssh -c 'XYMONNETWORK=sshslow xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --tests:ssh'<br> INTERVAL 10m</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>or similar.</div><div><br></div><div>J</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Neil Simmonds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk" target="_blank">Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I should have mentioned on the below
description that I am still running this at 5 minute intervals but just using
it for a bigger timeout as I have one test that can be a bit slow. It’s
actually an http test that can take more than the standard timeout. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I’m sure this should be adaptable to SSH
tests.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Neil Simmonds<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 28 June 2012 10:40<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xymon] SSH test
checks too often for a device</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I do this for certain ping tests.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I have a slowtests.sh script in my ext
directory like this,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">#!/bin/sh<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">XYMONNETWORK="slowtests"<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">export XYMONNETWORK<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">$XYMONHOME/bin/xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
--timeout=20<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Then my tasks.cfg has been changed so that
xymonnet has the –test-untagged option,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">[xymonnet]<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
ENVFILE /xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
NEEDS xymond<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --test-untagged<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
INTERVAL 5m<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">And I have a new entry at the bottom like
this,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">[slowtests]<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
ENVFILE /xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
NEEDS xymond<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
CMD $XYMONHOME/ext/slowtests.sh
<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">
LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/slowtests.log<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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INTERVAL 5m<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Then all I do is add the tag
“NET:slowtests” to the tests that I only want to run every 20 minutes.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">I must admit though, that I’m not sure if
xymonnetagain would still pick up a failure from slowtests and start the 1m
retries. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue">Perhaps someone else can help on that. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jeremy Laidman<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 28 June 2012 10:29<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Xymon] SSH test checks
too often for a device</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hiya<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I have a few devices on which I do an ssh check. These devices
have some sort of self-defence mechanism and they throttle connecting to the
sshd process if they get failed connections (with no login) at too high a rate.
Unfortunately, twice every 5 minutes (I have two Xymon servers) is
sometimes a bit too often, and once they start to fail, I'm guessing that
xymonnet-again.sh starts to hammer them every minute. The devices are
appliances such that I cannot configure this behaviour.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I know there's a funky NET:location hack that can be used to adjust the
frequency of the net tests for nominated hosts, but I see no way to limit the
effect to only the ssh test, and so all tests will be slowed down.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Can anyone think of a better way to do this than the NET:location hack?
I only want to slow down the ssh tests.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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