Hi,
I need some help understanding delayyellow and delayred in Xymon 4.3.30 compiled from source (not distro).
I've got some equipment that I'm pinging (conn) and checking web (http) on BMCs (Dell iDRAC and Oracle ILOM) and am having a LOT of trouble with very short lived failures. As in fails a test and then the xymonnet (?) re-tries succeed in the next minute.
So I've tried enabling delayyellow and delayred, first with 5 minutes and then with 10 minutes. But I'm still seeing color changes and receiving email notifications.
My hosts.cfg entries look like this:
192.0.2.1 test-client-ilom # NAME:Test-Client-ILOM ssh delayred=conn:10,ssh:10 delayyellow=conn:10,ssh:10
These are place holders, but they are find & replace type place holders.
Am I incorrect in thinking that delayyellow / delayred will cause the test results for the delay value to be ignored /before/ changing color?
I suppose that I can change from delayyellow / delayred in hosts.cfg and go to their counterpart in the alerts.cfg file and not send the email(s). But I'd rather the page not change colors as we keep a screen open to it and I'd really rather it not false-yellow / false-red to immediately change back to green < 5 minutes later.
I'm sure that I'm missing something and am hoping that someone will help me figure things out and learn.
Thank you and have a good day.
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