And once again my reply didn't go to the list...
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Neil Simmonds < Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk> wrote:
Hi, I’d like to be able to have more control over purple alerts. I know Henrik has added a new parm into xymonserver.cfg called STATUSLIFETIME but that seems to be a global parm.****
What I’d really like to do is reduce the purple time for devmon to 5 minutes less than the global. This would enable me to detect devmon going purple and trigger the restart script without having all the snmp monitored devices (we have about 10) going purple as well.****
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Dunno about devmon specifically, but in general a test script "does stuff" to discover the state of the target device/service, then constructs a message that looks something like:
"status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date`
yadda yadda yadda
other informational bits, etc, and so on"then sends that message to the xymon server. The default lifetime of a status message is 30 minutes, which you can change by appending a time to the word "status".
"status+15 thing,domain,co,uk.test green `date`"to get a 15 minute lifetime. You ought to be able to locate that part in devmon and make an appropriate adjustment. Or maybe there's already something in devmon for setting the message lifetime, but I don't use it so I don't know.
This is described in the "XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX" section in the xymon.1 man page.
Ralph Mitchell