[Xymon] Purple Interval

[John Thurston]

On 3/11/2016 7:41 AM, John Tullis wrote:
> Is it possible to shorten the purple for the entire server?

Modify the xymon environment variable STATUSLIFETIME

 From the man-page xymonserver.cfg :
> STATUSLIFETIME
>     The number of minutes that a status is considered valid after an update. After this time elapses, the status will go purple. Default: 30 minutes

Alternatively, define an ext script on your inaccessible host to send a 
status message in every X minutes with an appropriate TTL

> status[+LIFETIME][/group:GROUP] HOSTNAME.TESTNAME COLOR <additional text>

Something like:
   xymon xyserver.foo.com "status+6 client.foo.com.alive green"

This will put a column "alive" for host "client" which will go purple 
six minutes after the last green message is received.


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