[Xymon] duration of MSG red status

[Novosielski, Ryan]

> On Oct 24, 2014, at 14:50, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, October 24, 2014 8:13 am, Nicole Beck wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I think this has been asked before, but it was a long time ago and I
>> wondered if something changed since then.
>> 
>> How long will the status of MSGS stay red?  We just setup monitoring
>> recently and it seems like it stays red for about 30 minutes. Is that
>> normal?  Is this configurable?
>> 
>> We are running Xymon server 4.2.3.
> 
> Nicole,
> 
> The duration of the 'msgs' test is actually a function of how many cycles
> back logfetch will scan for content to include in the log data going
> forward (actual calculation of the color is via the regex's performed by
> xymond_client).
> 
> logfetch will look back 6 runtime-positions which, combined with the
> default xymonclient run interval of 5m, ends up causing the 30m figure.
> 
> The former value is compiled in, however the run frequency is
> configurable. (We run our clients on 100s cycles, which means our msgs
> tests last for 10-12m.)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how easy the 6x positions would be to be made dynamic or a
> runtime option, but that would be nice.

Could have sworn the number of lines to look at was configurable too. Maybe I'm thinking of BB?