On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Andrea Cerrito wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:29:05PM -0400, David Means wrote:
> > > If there is a way to configure Mon to report a service as down after a
> > > number of failures, then that is my recommendation. Just because a
> > alertafter 2 15m
> > gives an alert if the service failes 2 times within 15 minutes.
> I know that option, but I wish to understand why monitoring fails.
> I mean: if the monitoring is experiencing timeout, clients too will...
> right?
Just checked my mon configuration, I don't have an alertafter statement
there. I didn't had a single false positive for pop3.
Looks like your server running qmail-pop3d has some delays sometimes.
perhaps a tcpdump will show more.
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