[Xymon] delayred on conn

John Thurston john.thurston at alaska.gov
Fri Mar 18 21:09:46 CET 2016


On 3/18/2016 11:50 AM, Bakkies Gatvol wrote:
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> I have not been able to figure out how to have a conn test (ping test)
> only turn red if it has been failing for 10 minutes.

Use the "DELAYRED" tag on your host. Set the delay to be 10 minutes.

 From the man page for hosts.cfg

> delayred=STATUSCOLUMN:DELAY[,STATUSCOLUMN:DELAY...]
>     Usually, status changes happen immediately. This tag is used to defer an update to red for the STATUSCOLUMN status for DELAY minutes. E.g. with delayred=disk:10,cpu:30, a red disk-status will not appear on the Xymon webpages until it has been red for at least 10 minutes


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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska



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