[Xymon] http test question

[Steve Holmes]

You will also have to deal with the purple that will result if you don't
keep reporting the test to the server.
Steve

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Taylor Lewick
<tlewick at tradebotsystems.com>wrote:

> According to the docs, the NKTIME controls when the alert is displayed on
> the webpage, but I don’t think it keeps the test from running.  I’d like to
> be able to tell the test to run only once or twice.  I’m guessing I’ll need
> to just write a custom script and control it via cron or the ext and xymon
> framework…****
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> *From:* FORD Alan [mailto:Alan.FORD at stanwell.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 31, 2011 6:12 PM
> *To:* Taylor Lewick; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* RE: http test question****
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> Hi, you can try using use the NKTIME tag in hosts.cfg to control this.****
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> Note these options will be dropped in Xymon 5.****
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> Alan****
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Taylor Lewick
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 1 November 2011 6:40 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] http test question****
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> Hi all.  Is it possible to control the times an HTTP URL test is performed?
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> I know I can add http://www.sample.com and use regexs to look for an
> occurrence of the word Fail, but we would only like it to check once or
> twice per day, say at 7:45 and then once more at 8:25.  I know its easy to
> control the timing of when the alert is sent.  But can I limit when the
> test is run?  Short of creating an ext-script, not sure how I do that in
> xymon.****
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> Thanks,****
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> Taylor****
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