[Xymon] How many times does xymonnet retry?

[John Thurston]

On 1/8/2016 7:13 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:
> Hello, all,
>
> I didn’t find this information in the man pages for xymonnet and
> xymonnet-again. How many times does xymonnet retry a failed test? Does
> it go red on the first failure (assuming default configuration), or only
> after all the retries failed?

It goes red when xymonnet detects the failure. The test is then assigned 
to xymonnet-again which executes it more frequently for a total of 30 
minutes. If it is still red, xymonnet-again quits hammering it.

 From the man page for xymonnet-again
> Only tests whose first failure occurred within 30 minutes are included in the tests that are run by xymonnet-again.sh. The 30 minute limit is there to avoid hosts that are down for longer periods of time to bog down xymonnet-again.sh. You can change this limit with the "--frequenttestlimit=SECONDS" when you run xyxmonnet.
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