[Xymon] MAXMSG_* limits

[Phil Crooker]

>>> On 25/08/2011 at 3:45 PM, in message <4E55E171.9020202 at hswn.dk>,
Henrik
Størner<henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On 25-08-2011 05:07, Phil Crooker wrote:
>> I was having an issue with BBWin client messages being too large
and
>> getting truncated. In the xymonserver.cfg help file, eg:
>>
>> "MAXMSG_STATUS
>> The maximum size of a "status" message in kB, default: 256. "
>>
>> I tried putting that variable in and enlarging it to 512 but still
>> received the same error and no change to MAXMSG either. I found I
had to
>> use a value in bytes, not KB as stated - this was reported back in
2006:
>>
>>
>> http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2006/05/msg00196.html 
> 
> And I belive it was fixed back then. I just tried it with 4.3.4, and
it 
> picks up the KB-value just fine. What version are you running?
> 

4.3.4. As it works for you, I'll do some homework and report back.

> You can use the command "ipcs -m" to see the size of the shared
memory 
> segments that Xymon uses (you must be logged in as root, or the xymon
user).
> 
>> I also found I had to restart xymon for it to pick up the changes.
It
>> may be possible to just kill -HUP or something, I didn't try. But I
>> didn't expect this behaviour as the other config changes I've made
have
>> been picked up on the fly...
> 
> Changing xymonserver.cfg usually requires a restart. All other config

> changes are picked up automatically.

Could that please be included in the xymonserver.cfg man page?

thanks, Phil



> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
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