Thanks, I got that, so there is no set number of repetitions? I.e. it will keep trying for 30 minutes?
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 11:35
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] How many times does xymonnet retry?
On 1/8/2016 7:13 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:
Hello, all,
I didn’t find this information in the man pages for xymonnet and
xymonnet-again. How many times does xymonnet retry a failed test? Does
it go red on the first failure (assuming default configuration), or only
after all the retries failed?
It goes red when xymonnet detects the failure. The test is then assigned
to xymonnet-again which executes it more frequently for a total of 30
minutes. If it is still red, xymonnet-again quits hammering it.
From the man page for xymonnet-again
Only tests whose first failure occurred within 30 minutes are included in the tests that are run by xymonnet-again.sh. The 30 minute limit is there to avoid hosts that are down for longer periods of time to bog down xymonnet-again.sh. You can change this limit with the "--frequenttestlimit=SECONDS" when you run xyxmonnet.
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