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Xymond Bogus/Timeouts

list Jeremy Laidman
Wed, 30 May 2018 16:55:28 +1000
Message-Id: <CACO=user-637fd67d35e7@xymon.invalid>

Rich

On 22 May 2018 at 18:56, Rich Jones <user-6806fa693bf5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all,

Any idea what the Bogus/Timeouts message means in the incoming messages
section of the xymond column means?

Timeouts, yes sure that makes sense, but the word Bogus? Is this
indicating that the timeout alerts I have started receiving the past few
weeks for a specific server are actually a false positive?

Any thoughts would be great
I believe this is a counter of Xymon protocol messages that had
unrecognised commands, or the connection timed out before a command was
received. Default timeout is apparently 10 seconds.

The following two commands would increment this counter, the first with a
timeout, and the second with a bogus command:

sleep 11 | telnet xymonservername 1984

xymon xymonservername BOGUS

J