[Xymon] xymonnet blocking

[John Thurston]

We've run xymon for years, and BB for years before that. We've recently 
bumped into a potential problem with xymonnet. In the middle of the 
night, all of our tests populated by xymonnet went purple. We think 
we've tracked the problem, and attribute it to an ldap query which took 
too long to respond. It looks like xymonnet just stopped while it waited 
for this query to complete. While it was waiting on this response, none 
of the other xymonnet tests were being performed.

The man for xymonnet indicates there is a --timeout=N which determines 
how long to wait for a service to accept a connection. Is there some 
parameter which will control how long xymonnet can try to get an answer 
after connecting?


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