[Xymon] xymonnet alarm (with patch)

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 9/9/2016 8:37 PM, Foster Patch wrote:
> Should I replace this:
>
> CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timelimit=75 --dns-timeout=5
>
> With this
>
> CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --dns-timeout=5 --timelimit=75
>
>
> Or should I add an additional line to what you put in?

You should change your existing line to:
> CMD env TASKSLEEP=75 xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --dns-timeout=5

That should immediately take effect for you. You can leave the 
"--timelimit=75" at the end, but you'll get a warning to the error log 
on each run.

-jc



-----Original Message-----
> From: J.C. Cleaver [mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 11:30 PM
> To: Foster Patch <Foster.Patch at accuweather.com>
> Cc: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet alarm (with patch)
>
> Patch now included.
>
> -jc
>
>
> On Fri, September 9, 2016 8:11 pm, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>> On Thu, September 8, 2016 11:51 am, Foster Patch wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I added what you recommended, but the alarm still exists. Here is the
>>> tasks.cfg section:
>>> [xymonnet]
>>>                 ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>>>                 NEEDS xymond
>>>                 CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
>>> --dns-timeout=5 --timelimit=75
>>>                 LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log
>>>                 INTERVAL 1m
>>>
>>> The xymonnet alarm now says under Error output:
>>> Unknown option –timelimit=75 – try –help
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Foster
>>
>> Hi Foster,
>>
>> Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is a bug in how that option is
>> processed. As a workaround, you can lie to xymonnet about what
>> interval it's been told to run (from xymonlaunch) at with:
>>
>>> CMD env TASKSLEEP=75 xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
>> --dns-timeout=5
>>
>> This should result in what you want.
>>
>> The following patch should fix it for you, and this will be in the
>> next version.
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> -jc
>>

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