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....
Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
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.
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:
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
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