[Xymon] Xymond Bogus/Timeouts

[Jeremy Laidman]

Rich

On 22 May 2018 at 18:56, Rich Jones <rich at corporationpop.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Any idea what the Bogus/Timeouts message means in the incoming messages
> section of the xymond column means?
>
> Timeouts, yes sure that makes sense, but the word Bogus? Is this
> indicating that the timeout alerts I have started receiving the past few
> weeks for a specific server are actually a false positive?
>
> Any thoughts would be great
>

I believe this is a counter of Xymon protocol messages that had
unrecognised commands, or the connection timed out before a command was
received. Default timeout is apparently 10 seconds.

The following two commands would increment this counter, the first with a
timeout, and the second with a bogus command:

sleep 11 | telnet xymonservername 1984

xymon xymonservername BOGUS

J
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