[Xymon] Preventing Purple - Periodical Checks

[Tres Finocchiaro]

I have a custom service check that is only done during certain times of the
day and only on certain days of the week.

We use crontab and a shell script to generate the output and pipe it into
the front-end using the xymon executable.

xymon 127.0.0.1 "status $server.$service $green|$red|$yellow
$timestamp,$description"

This check works terrific when it runs, but in between checks it goes
purple.

Without creating a fake service check in between each scheduled cron entry,
what's the quickest way to configure that this check goes purple less
often?  (or if that's not possible, never go purple?)  How are others
handling occasional or daily service checks?  Are you hard-coding the times
into the script itself?

-Tres



- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
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