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List:       mon
Subject:    RE: downtime duration incorrect?
From:       Jim Trocki <trockij () transmeta ! com>
Date:       2003-01-24 15:03:42
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Piero Calucci wrote:

> in fact the "duration ..." message is output by fping.monitor

correct. the "duration" is meant to be an indication of how long
fping.monitor spent doing its thing for that particular invocation.

> If you really need to know the downtime interval you should look at
> log.d/downtime.log

correct. this yields the duration of the failure for the service. it is
written only when a service starts working again after failing.

if you want the alert to report this, then you can have the alert program
refer to the "MON_LAST_FAILURE" and "MON_LAST_SUCCESS" environment
variables.

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