[Xymon] xymonnet blocking

[Dave "doughnut" Fogarty]

In your tasks.cfg, try "MAXTIME 10m" to the "[xymonnet]" block.  Alter the 
"10m" to your taste.  Probably something shorter than your STATUSLIFETIME.

Dave

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, John Thurston wrote:

> 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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