I finally had time to look around for this - it looks like the 30 minute default is hard-wired into the code.
xymon-4.3.5/xymond/xymond.c, line 1210:
int validity = 30; /* validity is counted in minutes */then at lines 1239-1241:
if (strncmp(msg, "status+", 7) == 0) {
validity = durationvalue(msg+7);
}So, an incoming message is given a validity of 30 minutes, unless set otherwise by "status+X".
I just tested that by changing line 1210 to "validity=5", compiled, installed, fired it up, sent a test status. Five minutes later, I get a purple dot for that test.
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Elizabeth Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com
wrote:
How can I change xymon to alert after a server has failed to report for 15 minutes? We're finding that 30 minutes is too long a delay in the production environment.
I see where you set purple delay for network tests and I see where you can return it for individual tests, and I see where you can disable purple. Is this a code change?
thanks Betsy
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