[Xymon] Anyone got a patch for the 24-hour limit on ACKS? Or a script to invoke acknowledge.sh?

[Betsy Schwartz]

I've noticed that if I ack for more than a day the ack falls off after 5
minutes sometimes

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:53 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> Betsy,
>
> Have you noticed any difference in success depending on how you're
> specifying the duration? (eg, "1d" vs "24h", etc.?)
>
> There's one "magic value" relating to a full day when we're generating the
> ack code to begin with, but on walking through the module code I can't see
> how it would cause an effect like this.
>
>
> After the acknowledgement, the expiration time of the current one should
> be displayed on the status page for that test. Can you confirm that the
> pending date in those cases is what you'd expect it to be?
>
> Sort of grasping at straws here. I'll keep digging in, but so far things
> seem to be working correctly for me.
>
> Regards,
> -jc
>
>
> On Mon, October 19, 2015 10:38 am, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
> > My suspicion would be that the test briefly exits the bad state, or you
> > have a problem with a clock somewhere. One weird issue that I used to
> have
> > is if I set acknowledgments too long (we are talking like 999 weeks),
> IRIX
> > would expire them almost immediately. But that would not happen under
> your
> > circumstance certainly.
> >
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> > On Oct 19, 2015, at 13:07, Betsy Schwartz
> > <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com<mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > our acks always always always seem to time out
> > what are we doing differently?
> >
> > we're running xymon 4.3.21 on RHEL6
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Ralph Mitchell
> > <ralphmitchell at gmail.com<mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I have ack-by-email set up, and can send multi-day/week acks without a
> > problem.
> >
> > Ralph Mitchell
> >
> > On Oct 19, 2015 11:02 AM, "Root, Paul T"
> > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
> > I was just doing an ack for 1+ days.
> >
> > It will only get cancelled if the test in question goes green however
> > briefly.
> >
> > A disable will persist if it is set to expire at a certain time.
> >
> > From: Xymon
> > [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On
> Behalf
> > Of Novosielski, Ryan
> > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:59 AM
> > To: betsy.schwartz at gmail.com<mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
> > Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Anyone got a patch for the 24-hour limit on ACKS? Or
> > a script to invoke acknowledge.sh?
> >
> > I have never found acks to have a 24 hour limit. Can anyone confirm
> > whether this is definitely true or not?
> >
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> >
> > On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:57, Betsy Schwartz
> > <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com<mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > We've GOT to be able to ack alerts and have the ack survive the weekend.
> > (if I can call acknowledge.sh from perl I have a script that can scrape
> > the board and re-ack)
> > thank you!!
> >
>
>
>
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