Re: changing flash intervals for ip-monitoring

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@data)
Mon, 15 Aug 94 12:03:38 +0200

Hi!

John> I have been using tkined/scotty 0.9i for a while now to do montoring
John> and the like. While I have a color monitor, and I can see that a host
John> that has gone down is displayed in red, one of the people who will be
John> doing the monitoring for me only has a monochrome x terminal. Needless
John> to say, the color red isn't easily distinguishable 8-).

John> What I want to do is decrease the flash interval to say 5 seconds. It
John> doesn't appear that there is an easy way to do this. I can change the
John> default test interval from the tkined.default, but it doesn't appear I
John> can change the flash interval used by the ip-monitor script.

Here is what I have done regarding this problem:

o Setting the interval for monitoring jobs using a scale was a bad
idea. What happened is that you changed the interval to 5 seconds
by setting the default, but tkined did not show it, because the
scale starts at a minimum of 10 seconds.

o Intervals were not restored when you loaded a previously saved map.
This is hopefully fixed in the next version.

o Flashing icons were not supported by tkined. Instead, the reachability
script just changed the icon a few times. This is very expensive
and can not be done frequently because the script has better things
to do.

I have added a new flash command to tkined which allows an
application to let tkined flash an icon for a given duration. This
command is now used to flash the icon until the next test for
reachability is done.

Any suggestions?

Juergen