Query about bad<tests>

list James Isolder
Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:57:12 +0200
Message-Id: <user-d6eb5fc8525c@xymon.invalid>

as i understand it the following line
<ipnumber>   <hostname> # ssh spamd badSPAMD:2:3:5
 should go "clear" after the second failure, "yellow" after three successive failures, and "red" after 5 successive failures But this does not seem to happen.
Am I doing something wrong.
Thanks