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Dig test as the only service monitored

list Jeremy Laidman
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:25:47 +1100
Message-Id: <user-3b08acd7b10f@xymon.invalid>

Daniel

On 14 January 2014 05:06, Daniel McDonald <user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid>wrote:
 I did a bit more testing, and found that the “dig” test cannot be the
only service that is monitored for a host, or it will fail.
This configuration works for me.  I have two hosts that I cannot ping, nor
do I have any other tests.  My hosts.cfg entries look like:

203.52.0.222    dns1.example.com           # testip delayred=dns:15
delayyellow=dns:10 dns=SOA:zone.example.com,A:host1.zone.example.com,A:
host2.zone.example.com,SOA:au noping
203.52.1.221    dns2.example.com           # testip delayred=dns:15
delayyellow=dns:10 dns=SOA:zone.example.com,A:host1.zone.example.com,A:
host2.zone.example.com,SOA:au noping

I wonder if it's the "testip" that I have here.  I generally have "testip"
on servers I test.  If there's a transient DNS problem, I only want my DNS
server to show a fault in Xymon.

J