Poll/Test time
list Ken Connell
Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the default 5min ? I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red event is going to clear... Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu cycles I don't see a draw back.... Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University XXX Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 XXX-XXX-XXXX x6709
list Ralph Mitchell
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <user-7cb0f5662626@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the default 5min ? I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red event is going to clear... Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu cycles I don't see a draw back....
I've used cron to schedule tests down to every 3 minutes, and in a couple of cases, every 30 seconds... Just grabbing web pages and reporting on them. Ralph Mitchell
list Japheth Cleaver
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <user-7cb0f5662626@xymon.invalid> wrote:Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the default 5min ? I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red event is going to clear... Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu cycles I don't see a draw back....I've used cron to schedule tests down to every 3 minutes, and in a couple of cases, every 30 seconds... Just grabbing web pages and reporting on them.
I regularly set the polling cycle to 1m for all network tests and, as long as your box can handle it, would usually recommend the same. You should probably set [xymonnetagain] to something lower, like ~15s. One trick: modify ext/xymonnet-again.sh to read/append a static file as well as tmp/frequenttests.* , and then keep a list of super-important hosts in there. This way you can have your, eg, dns servers checked at ~10/15s and everything else checked in the normal period. Regards, -jc