[Xymon] Running server-side custom test more often than every 5 minutes

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Fri, February 13, 2015 11:57 am, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:

>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: J.C. Cleaver [mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org]
>> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 13:52
>> To: Ribeiro, Glauber
>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Running server-side custom test more often than every
>> 5 minutes
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> 1m *should* be a valid syntax since, as you'd indicated, it's used
>> elsewhere. The appropriate parts are in xymonlaunch.c as well, even in
>> 4.3.10.
>>
>> You mentioned it was an include file; I seem to recall occasional issues
>> back then where include'd files didn't always get walked for changes, but
>> my testing shows this to be working.
>>
>> Do you know about how long xymonlaunch was running it in 5m intervals
>> after having changed it to 1m?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -jc
>>
>>

>
> I waited about 15 minutes, before I changed from "1m" to "60".
>
> I was suspicious it wouldn't pick up a change in an include file, so I
> restarted xymon server after each change.
>
> g


Can you run xymonlaunch in --debug mode with the task set to "1m"? (You
can also send it a -USR2 signal if it's already running, which will toggle
this state.)


Regards,

-jc