[Xymon] how does delayyellow work?

My Xymon 4.3.10 server has a host configured as follows:

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX smtp # sm ~smtp ~smtps DOWNTIME=smtp,smtps:*:0500:0510:restart delayyellow=smtp:3,smtps:3,sm:6

The "sm" service has been yellow but only for less than 3 minutes. I didn't expect the status page to show yellow until after 6 minutes because of the " delayyellow" directive.

What am I missing?

cheers,

Troy

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