27 May
2013
27 May
'13
6:49 a.m.
I just looked at the code (xymon-4.3.10) - the xymon client program has a default timeout of 15 seconds, and retries twice. That's 45 of the 47 seconds delay you're seeing before it tries the second server.
To answer your original question, yes, that would seem to be the expected behaviour... :-)
Ralph Mitchell