On Thu, Oct 2, 2014, at 15:17, John Thurston wrote:
On 10/2/2014 12:03 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014, at 14:59, Simioni, Rodney wrote:
How can I disable the ping test for the whole hosts.cfg file?
at the top of your hosts.cfg file:
0.0.0.0 .default. # noping
Yes, this will do it.... until the next .default. line in the file. If you are going to use the .default. method, you need to append your 'noping' (or 'noconn', look up the difference) to every .default. line in your file.
I had a pretty large xymon install at my previous employer and we didn't use the .default. method at all. Didn't even know it existed. Though after I discovered it, I only used it for a day or two during some maintenance. I guess I like verbosity :-)
Probably a better way to do this is to use the '--noping' option on the 'xymonnet' task in tasks.cfg. Look at the help file for xymonnet for the details.
Yes, this is probably better but in my opinion it's harder to track down in the future. Make sure you document you changed this :-)