retrydelay issue ?

[Jeff Weisberg]

| i recently implemented a perl test that argus tests via snmp every 6 hours.
| 
| frequency:      120
| retrydelay:     60
| [...]
| 	     Service UDP/SNMP {
| 		    label:          perltest
| 		    frequency:      21600
| 		    retries:        1
| 		    eqvalue:        1
| 		    oid:            .1.3.6.1.4.1.4502.66.1.1
| 	     }
| [...]
| 
| the test failed, and argus alarmed.  I fixed the problem, and expected argus
| to realize it was fixed within 60 seconds -- it hadnt.  from debugging:
[...]
| have i misconfigured something, or is something else wrong ?


I think you think that retrydelay does something different than it does.

Argus does something like this:

  test the service every 'frequency' seconds

  if the test fails, retry the test 'retries' times, every 'retrydelay' seconds
  if all of the retries fail, declare the service down, otherwise up

  continue on our normal testing schedule



	--jeff