[Xymon] How to increase max message size

Ryan Skadberg skadz at skadz.com
Mon Dec 12 16:34:19 CET 2011


Thanks Ralph!  That fixed me right up.

Skadz


On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Ryan Skadberg <skadz at skadz.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a few hosts that are sending large status messages and am getting:
>>
>> 2011-12-11 20:16:24 Oversize status msg from 64.94.253.22 for
>> host.company.com:ports truncated (n=340208, limit=262144)
>>
>> I've tried increasing MAXLINE in xymonserver.cfg, but that does not seem
>> to have fixed the issue.  Where can I increase this, as I'm sick of seeing
>> xymond being yellow all the time.
>>
>
> You probably need to set MAXMSG_STATUS in xymonserver.cfg.  It defaults to
> 256, which means 256Kb, which is where your 262144 comes from.
>
> See the "XYMOND SETTINGS" in the xymonserver.cfg man page for details.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
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