This sounds perfect. I don't know how I overlooked those options in the hosts.cfg man page before.

Thanks!

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Carl Melgaard Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:45 AM To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Delayed FILE NOEXIST Status Change?

Hi,

Take a look at "delayyellow" and "delayred" in hosts.cfg

Regards,

Carl Melgaard

Fra: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] På vegne af Lose, James Sendt: 11. januar 2012 11:04 Til: xymon at xymon.com Emne: [Xymon] Delayed FILE NOEXIST Status Change?

I want to generate an alarm when an error file is detected, but only if the file is detected for two or more consecutive polling cycles.

My current configuration for monitoring and analyzing the results are as follows:

client-local.cfg

file:/tmp/error

analysis.cfg

FILE /tmp/error NOEXIST

This configuration generates an alarm (e.g. changes the file test status to red) as soon as the error file is detected.

Can the FILE NOEXIST rule be modified to include an MTIME>600 check to insure that the status change does not occur for short-lived problems?

Thanks,

Bob

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