Try using "alertafter 2" or maybe "randskew 60s".

-Tom Scanlan
OpenReach, Inc.
Network Operations
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ed Ravin wrote:

> I'm using mon to watch a couple of daemons on separate computers.
> Catch is, the daemons are kicked by cron every 15 minutes to make
> them reload their configuration.  Mon is polling those servers
> every 5 minutes, and I suspect that Mon has a tendency to
> make those tests happen on the 5 minute mark.  So four
> times an hour, Cron has reset my daemons, which will recover
> in thirty seconds or so, but in the mean time, Mon is trying
> to test them and reports a failure.
>
> I suppose I could set a testing interval of 9 minutes or some
> other odd number that wouldn't sync up with 15 minute intervals.
> but I wonder if there's some way to tune Mon to avoid those
> numbers for me?  If not, would be easy to add such a feature?
>
>       -- Ed
>

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