How to shorten delay before purple alerts?

I finally had time to look around for this - it looks like the 30 minute
default is hard-wired into the code.

xymon-4.3.5/xymond/xymond.c, line 1210:

          int validity = 30;       /* validity is counted in minutes */

then at lines 1239-1241:

          if (strncmp(msg, "status+", 7) == 0) {
                validity = durationvalue(msg+7);
          }

So, an incoming message is given a validity of 30 minutes, unless set
otherwise by "status+X".

I just tested that by changing line 1210 to "validity=5", compiled,
installed, fired it up, sent a test status.  Five minutes later, I get a
purple dot for that test.

Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Elizabeth Schwartz <user-c61747246f66@xymon.invalid

wrote:

How can I change xymon to alert after a server has failed to report
for 15 minutes? We're finding that 30 minutes is too long a delay in
the production environment.

I see where you set purple delay for network tests and I see where you
can return it for individual tests, and I see where you can disable
purple. Is this a code change?

thanks Betsy