I'll assume you've looked at the "dialup" keyword, which will make client (eg cpu and disk) statuses clear instead of purple.

The default lifetime (30 minutes) is defined by the STATUSLIFETIME variable defined in xymonserver.cfg on the server. To override this value for network checks, you can specify "--validity=N" on the command-line used to run xymonnet.

Neither of these are likely to help you. The client messages are turned into status messages by xymond_client. All instances of code in xymond_client that sends a status message do so without a validity specified.

One thing you could do is to write a script that reads and refreshes the status for all relevant entries for the server in question, run every 25 minutes. For example:

$XYMON $XYMSRV 'xymondboard host=host.example.com test=^(disk|memory|cpu)$ fields=hostname,testname,color,clntstamp'

This gives you the client timestamp (in epoch seconds) - when the client message was received. You can subtract this from the current time (eg from "date +%s") to get the age of the client message. If it's less than 25 minutes, you have a status message that needs to be "refreshed". What you then would do is to query (with: $XYMON $XYMSRV "xymondlog host.example.com.cpu") and replay the status message (including whatever colour it had) with "+LIFETIME" added.

Also, you could label all such hosts with a special keyword like how xymonnet uses "dialup", perhaps "daily". Then use "xymongrep daily" to get the hostnames you want to refresh.

Cheers Jeremy

On 14 April 2015 at 01:09, Werner Maier <werner at maiers.de> wrote:

Hi,

I have the following problem:

I want to monitor the client data of a machine that is only up once a day.

the machine gets waked up w/ wakeonlan, takes an rsnapshost of other servers, and shuts down again. (no need to be up 24/7 with 8 2 TB HDDs, raidcontroller)...

I know about the normal xymon status+LIFETIME protocol. but I don't see where or how to configure that client to send a LIFETIME with the "xymonclient.sh" - it uses the "client" protocol.

how do I set the validity for these tests to 24h+ ? (1600 minutes should be ok).

thanks in advance.

Werner

Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Werner Maier http://www.maiers.de/

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