[Xymon] Custom check interval for different status of custom tests

[Jeremy Laidman]

On 2 May 2013 17:07, Andrey Chervonets <A.Chervonets at cominder.eu> wrote:

> For some tests we do not to check once per 5 min just because of
> performance impact of some complex requests.


If you re-run the checks more frequently when they fail, won't there be a
performance impact?  If the failure is due to load, then you might end up
making things worse.  Even if load isn't impacted, the people who are
troubleshooting the problem might think your monitoring is the /cause/ of
the problem, rather than a symptom.

I thought about trying to solve this in a generic way - having a script
that looks for failures and does a re-test, perhaps for tests that are
tagged for re-testing in hosts.cfg.  However, I realised that very few of
my tests would benefit from this and not be at risk of causing increased
load during a time of trouble.  Of those, I really would need to handle
each one on a case-by-case basis, to determine an optimal balance of
detecting resolution quickly vs limiting load caused by the tests.  As it's
a case-by-case assessment, I thought a generic solution wouldn't be
appropriate.

J
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