Try using "alertafter 2" or maybe "randskew 60s".
-Tom Scanlan OpenReach, Inc. Network Operations office: 732-254-0210 x-6022 cell: 732-682-3365 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 >
