[xymon] longer intervals between tests

[Stef Coene]

On Wednesday 08 September 2010, Rob McBroom wrote:
> Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but a quick search didn't answer my
> question.
> 
> I'm defining a new server-side test in `hobbitlaunch.cfg`. It's working as
> intended, except for one thing:
> 
> It doesn't need to run very often. I'm thinking every 6 hours or so. I've
> got it set to 1 hour now while I test things out and it keeps going purple
> about a minute before it runs again (and goes back to green). Is the
> INTERVAL supposed to be factored in when determining if something should
> be purple? If not, what do I need to do? A separate rule just for this
> test in `hobbit-alerts.cfg`? (I really hope not.)
When you send the status message to the hobbit server, you have a line like 
"status machine.test".
If you run the test every hour, you can say "status+70 machine.test" so the 
result is valid for 70 minutes.


Stef