[Xymon] Poll/Test time

Ralph Mitchell ralphmitchell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 00:11:27 CET 2012


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:

> Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the
> default 5min ?
>
> I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems
> to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red
> event is going to clear...
>
> Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu
> cycles I don't see a draw back....
>

I've used cron to schedule tests down to every 3 minutes, and in a couple
of cases, every 30 seconds...  Just grabbing web pages and reporting on
them.

Ralph Mitchell
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