Xymon server report purple because custom client script do not report often enough

You'll want to set the lifetime so that it spans several reporting
intervals.  The default interval is 5 minutes, with a lifetime of 30
minutes, so that multiple reports can be missed before it shows purple
dots.  With a 60 minute interval, you should set the lifetime to at least
120:   status+120

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <
user-9678697f1438@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Xymon expects results every 5-10 minutes or the test will turn purple to
indicate no report has been received.  If you really want it to run every
60 minutes you need to put something to indicate that in the test.  In the
text sent back to the server you have to put something like status+60m or
something like that.  Look in the xymon man pages for the exact syntax.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kim
Johansen
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 4:34 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon server report purple because custom client script
do not report often enough

Hey,

I have made a script which count how many times a string appears in a
log file. Nothing special. And it works fine.

Doing the testing of this script I made the interval to 1m, just so I
did not have to wait to long to test changes.

Now that I finish with the script I want the interval, configured in
clientlaunch.cfg, to run every 60m, so I have changed it in
clientlaunch.cfg.

But that result in the xymon server is complaining about stop reporting
from the client on this custom check.

I have tried to delete the test status from the server, but with no luck.

Is there something I have misunderstood and is there a way to fix it?

Clientlaunch.cfg
[razor-count]
      ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
      CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/razor-report-count.sh
      LOGFILE /var/log/hobbit/razor-report-count.log
      INTERVAL 60m


Thanks,

Kim.

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