Hiya
I have a few devices on which I do an ssh check. These devices have some sort of self-defence mechanism and they throttle connecting to the sshd process if they get failed connections (with no login) at too high a rate. Unfortunately, twice every 5 minutes (I have two Xymon servers) is sometimes a bit too often, and once they start to fail, I'm guessing that xymonnet-again.sh starts to hammer them every minute. The devices are appliances such that I cannot configure this behaviour.
I know there's a funky NET:location hack that can be used to adjust the frequency of the net tests for nominated hosts, but I see no way to limit the effect to only the ssh test, and so all tests will be slowed down.
Can anyone think of a better way to do this than the NET:location hack? I only want to slow down the ssh tests.
Cheers Jeremy