[Xymon] bb: Argument list too large long

[Tim McCloskey]

From hobbit 4.2.0 you can use these variables to define message sizes.  I'd have to rtfm to see if they are there by default since I don't recall if I added them manually.  Regardless, you can use the MAXMSG_STATUS setting if needed.  But keep in mind what Mr. Shiels mentioned already.

MAXMSG_STATUS="nnn"
MAXMSG_DATA="nnn"
MAXMSG_CLIENT="nnn"

Tim
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Shiels, David dshiels at
Fri Apr 29 20:53:57 CEST 2011

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A couple of caveats to upping the message size, the history will store the whole thing for every state change, if the server has a largish number of hosts you can overwhelm the listening daemon.

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From: Joe Acquisto [joe.acquisto at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:05 PM
To: Tim McCloskey
Subject: Re: [Xymon] bb: Argument list too large long

Don't see that in hobbitserver.cfg.   This is hobbit 4.20.

joe a.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote:
Check the MAXMSG_STATUS in hobbitserver.cfg, and take a look at your logs.  You might be getting a message about oversized status messages.  You can change the value in hobbitserver.cfg if needed.


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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Joe Acquisto [joe.acquisto at gmail.com<mailto:joe.acquisto at gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:41 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] bb: Argument list too large long

When trying to send a simple status message to hobbit (yes still at that level) , along the line of : /path_to_bb/bb my_hobbit_host "status+1d page.subpage green `date` `cat /somefile`"

"somefile" is rather large, some 428k and I can confirm it works fine if I make "somefile" much smaller.

Is there a way around this?   The idea is to have this file as a page for reference.  I personally think a better solution is to use access or excel (in mswords), but . . .  boss wants it this way.

joe a.
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