How Can I Change ping Frequency to every 30 Seconds? 🔗 link

On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid wrote:

All;

I would like to modify ping to every 30 seconds over the next two weeks,

I
 believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
 RRD graphs. 

Is this possible?  Is it possible to change the frequency for just one host
 and not all of my hosts?

On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid wrote:

All;

I would like to modify ping to every 30 seconds over the next two weeks,

Set the interval of the bbnet task in hobbitlaunch.cfg on your servers running
this task. However, you may want to verify the trends on the graphs on the
bbtest pages for these hosts first, to verify whether you have in the past been
able to complete all network testing in that time reliably.

I
believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
RRD graphs.

No, network testing intervals are not necessarily aligned to the RRD graph
resolution.

Is this possible? Is it possible to change the frequency for just one host
and not all of my hosts?

No, only for the task. However, you can run multiple bbnet tasks, and have
them test different devices ...

Regards,

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM,  <user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid> wrote:

From: user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid

On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid wrote:

All;

I would like to modify ping to every 30 seconds over the next two weeks,

Set the interval of the bbnet task in hobbitlaunch.cfg on your servers running
this task. However, you may want to verify the trends on the graphs on the
bbtest pages for these hosts first, to verify whether you have in the past been
able to complete all network testing in that time reliably.

Thanks as always Buchan.  Sine my server I am using is fairly new, the
load and times to complete testing ar e all fine at the moment, so I've
gone ahead and modified bbnet in hobbitlaunch.cfg to a 1 min.
interval.

I
believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
RRD graphs.

No, network testing intervals are not necessarily aligned to the RRD graph
resolution.

How, and where can I make sure that rrd graphs are
regenerating at the same interval, or at least every 2 minutes?

Is this possible? Is it possible to change the frequency for just one host
and not all of my hosts?

No, only for the task. However, you can run multiple bbnet tasks, and have
them test different devices ...

Regards,

.vadim

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On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 user-d8fc75673582@xymon.invalid wrote:

I
believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
RRD graphs.

No, network testing intervals are not necessarily aligned to the RRD graph
resolution.

How, and where can I make sure that rrd graphs are
regenerating at the same interval, or at least every 2 minutes?

You can use rrdtool to dump out the contents of the rrd.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:25 PM,  <user-ddebaeecde97@xymon.invalid> wrote:

From: user-d85c9c61b1d7@xymon.invalid

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM,  wrote:

From: user-3342e3578700@xymon.invalid

On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 user-d8fc75673582@xymon.invalid wrote:

I
believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
RRD graphs.

No, network testing intervals are not necessarily aligned to the RRD graph
resolution.

How, and where can I make sure that rrd graphs are
regenerating at the same interval, or at least every 2 minutes?

You can use rrdtool to dump out the contents of the rrd.

cd /var/lib/xymon/rrd/
# rrdtool dump .rrd | less

So, that's confirmed that I am generating a graph once per minute:


<!-- 2010-02-09 10:25:00 EST / 1265729100 --> <row><v>2.5375000000e-03</v></row>
<!-- 2010-02-09 10:30:00 EST / 1265729400 --> <row><v>5.2093333333e-03</v></row>
<!-- 2010-02-09 10:35:00 EST / 1265729700 --> <row><v>2.6782333333e-03</v></row>
<!-- 2010-02-09 10:40:00 EST / 1265730000 --> <row><v>5.6797666667e-03</v></row>
<!-- 2010-02-09 10:45:00 EST / 1265730300 --> <row><v>4.2973333333e-03</v></row>
<!-- 2010-02-09 10:50:00 EST / 1265730600 --> <row><v>3.7946000000e-03</v></row>

Now, how do I reset this to every two minutes?

Thanks again,

.vadim

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If you want the rrd to be updated every 2 minutes then you will have
to create the rrd yourself manually.
Xymon will be default set the step to 5 minutes and there does not
seem to be a way of changing that.

RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1200 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:2400 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:2400

Make sure you change the ownership to xymon:xymon after creating it.