[Xymon] Please help Re: Please clarify: http yellow when delayred is set? Or, what makes http yellow?

[Betsy Schwartz]

Any thought on this? We just had another missed outage. I am going to have to start paging on http yellow until this is resolved - UGH
Thanks Betsy 

On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have this default set:
> 0.0.0.0   .default.   # DOWNTIME=0:0000:0300 delayred=http:10
> 
> and servers that are monitoring three URL's  like so:
> 
> 10.1.2.3   web1.example.com #  CLASS:webzone ssh apache
> http://web1.example.com/url1.htm http://web1.example.com/url2.cfm
> http://web1.example.com/url3.cfm
> 
> 
> What I'm seeing is, with one URL going red with a timeout after 22
> seconds, the http test is going YELLOW and then going RED ten minutes
> later. Does delayred turn the test yellow? If not, why is this test
> turning yellow? We want it to be RED.
> 
> What exactly determines whether an http test is red or yellow?
> 
> thanks Betsy