[Xymon] delayred on conn

[Root, Paul T]

It didn't work for me. Pretty weird though.

I started with this:

10.5.136.247    wilee                   # ntp delayred=conn:9

Then, put in a rule in iptables to block pings. It went red immediately.

And paged after 5 minutes, as my alerts tells it.

Then the weird thing happened. It changed to yellow.

Hold on, I’m going to test again. I bet hosts.cfg hadn't been re-read yet. So it's probably an invalid test.

BTW, 4.3.21 on the server and client.

I'll reply again in 15 minutes or so.





-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 4:34 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] delayred on conn

On 3/18/2016 1:27 PM, John Thurston wrote:
- snip -
> Can anyone confirm that "delayred" is working for them with conn?

Ohhhh. I think I see something interesting.

In xymond.c, I see the following comment:
>         /* Ignore any delays when we start with a purple status */

My test case was to change a noconn tag on a host to conn. Which meant I
went from clear/no-state to red. I haven't read the rest of that code,
but I suspect my test would be valid only if starting from a green state.

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John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska
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