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Where is xymon message life found?

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list John Thurston · Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:50:41 -0800 · 
A host+test combination which does not report often enough will go 'purple'. The duration or 'life' of a status message can be set by sending a status+LIFETIME.

I have a a couple of tests which have not gone purple, despite not being updated for over a week. I have a file named
  ~/data/hist/foo,bar,com.test
which contains the times the test named "test" has changed state for the host foo.bar.com.  The last entry is 1496866851 which works out to June 7th.

Where can I find the information indicating when xymond will consider this test ready to go purple?
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list Japheth Cleaver · Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:10:47 -0700 ·
▸ quoted from John Thurston
On 6/14/2017 4:50 PM, John Thurston wrote:
A host+test combination which does not report often enough will go 'purple'. The duration or 'life' of a status message can be set by sending a status+LIFETIME.

I have a a couple of tests which have not gone purple, despite not being updated for over a week. I have a file named
 ~/data/hist/foo,bar,com.test
which contains the times the test named "test" has changed state for the host foo.bar.com.  The last entry is 1496866851 which works out to June 7th.

Where can I find the information indicating when xymond will consider this test ready to go purple?

This is retrievable via xymondlog or xymondboard under the "validtime" field. The output is a standard unix epoch timestamp.

Something like this should give you the output: xymon localhost "xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,validtime"

It should go purple no later than 60s after that time. In the case of disabled/enabled tests, I believe an entire additional LIFETIME is added in after the enablement before it's flipped, however.

HTH,

-jc