[Xymon] How to shorten delay before purple alerts?

[henrik at hswn.dk]

I've added a STATUSLIFETIME setting in xymonserver.cfg for the next
version.

Regards,
Henrik

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:16:50 +1100, Jeremy Laidman
<jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
> It would be really handy if this could be set by a variable within
> xymonserver.cfg (eg XYMONDVALIDITY=30) and/or appending "--validity=N"
to
> the command line in tasks.cfg.  Using the environment variable might be
> preferable in some cases, because it can be used by other things link
> xymonnet or custom test scripts.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Ralph Mitchell
> <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I finally had time to look around for this - it looks like the 30
minute
>> default is hard-wired into the code.
>>
>> xymon-4.3.5/xymond/xymond.c, line 1210:
>>
>>
>>           int validity = 30;       /* validity is counted in minutes */
>>
>> then at lines 1239-1241:
>>
>>           if (strncmp(msg, "status+", 7) == 0) {
>>                 validity = durationvalue(msg+7);
>>           }
>>
>> So, an incoming message is given a validity of 30 minutes, unless set
>> otherwise by "status+X".
>>
>> I just tested that by changing line 1210 to "validity=5", compiled,
>> installed, fired it up, sent a test status.  Five minutes later, I get
a
>> purple dot for that test.
>>
>> Ralph Mitchell
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Elizabeth Schwartz <
>> betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How can I change xymon to alert after a server has failed to report
>>> for 15 minutes? We're finding that 30 minutes is too long a delay in
>>> the production environment.
>>>
>>> I see where you set purple delay for network tests and I see where you
>>> can return it for individual tests, and I see where you can disable
>>> purple. Is this a code change?
>>>
>>> thanks Betsy
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