Xymon Network Tests - Behaviour?

list Henrik Størner
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:40:15 +0200
Message-Id: <user-ba119382eb18@xymon.invalid>

On 25-08-2011 16:25, Mario Valetti wrote:

Does this mean though, that the 'extra' test / bb-retest runs every
minute but only sends out a ping/test if a host has been marked as
unreachable?

Correct. The "normal" (once every 5 minutes) test drops a file in the Xymon "tmp" directory, with the servers that had some sort of failure for the network tests. The extra test picks up this file and retries the failed tests.


Regards,
Henrik