On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:

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Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the default 5min ?

I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red event is going to clear...

Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu cycles I don't see a draw back....

I've used cron to schedule tests down to every 3 minutes, and in a couple of cases, every 30 seconds... Just grabbing web pages and reporting on them.

I regularly set the polling cycle to 1m for all network tests and, as long as your box can handle it, would usually recommend the same.

You should probably set [xymonnetagain] to something lower, like ~15s.

One trick: modify ext/xymonnet-again.sh to read/append a static file as well as tmp/frequenttests.* , and then keep a list of super-important hosts in there. This way you can have your, eg, dns servers checked at ~10/15s and everything else checked in the normal period.

Regards,

-jc