ICMP pings frequency
Hi all,
I'am using SMC 3.5.1 to supervise non-SunMicrosystems boxes such as brocade switches or EMC FC4700 Service Processors with the ICMP Ping feature. It works nice ... only if the machine is down for at least 10 minutes. As a mater of fact the methods runs ping only every 10 minutes and I'll never know if the box rebooted or crashed down and came up in less than 10 minutes. Does sombody knows if it is a fixed param or if it can be tuned (and how to do that).
Thanks
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> Does sombody knows if it is a fixed param or
> if it can be tuned (and how to do that).
I haven't tried this with a recent version of SunMC. It may not do anything. Or it may work perfectly. Either way it's unsupported :)
In the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/cfg/domain-config.x file on your SunMC Server look in the "topology = { ... }" section. Try adding the following key:
icmpPingInterval = <X>
That's the refresh interval in seconds. The change would look something like this:
topology = {
topologyServer = "<SERVERNAME>"
snmpPort = "164"
logicalAddressMode = "ip"
icmpPingInterval = 300
}
...as an example to change the ping to 5 minutes. Then restart the topology process.
/opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-stop -p
/opt/SUNWsymon/sbin/es-start -p
Give it a try and let us know how it goes.
Note: if it does work, beware of tuning the number too low (i.e. 1 second would probably be bad)
Regards,
Mike
mike.kirk@halcyoninc.com
