[hobbit] Re: Conn test problems

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Wed Jan 9 21:32:15 CET 2008


Michael,

Were you the one that couldn't traceroute to the host via the shell?

Josh

On 1/9/08, Michael A. Price <mprice at sgt-inc.com> wrote:
>
>  My 'ping test completed' goes through the roof if my #trace tag is in the
> monitoring field and the host is down…
>
>
>
> It keeps trying to trace route and it times out..
>
>
>
> Never found a fix..
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:55 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Re: Conn test problems
>
>
>
> Has anyone else encountered issues like this?  Has anyone else encountered
> any similar issues with all the conn tests going haywire?
>
> I figured I'd also post this information while "bumping" the email:
>
> bbgen for Hobbit version 4.2.0
>
>
> Statistics:
>
>  Hosts               :   164
>
>  Status messages     :   531
>
>  Purple messages     :     0
>
>  Pages               :     1
>
>
>
> TIME SPENT
>
> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
>
>
>
> Startup                                  1199894029.525853                 -
>
> Load links done                          1199894029.526327          0.000474
>
> Load bbhosts done                        1199894029.531645
>
>           0.005318
>
> ACK removal done                         1199894029.531742          0.000097
>
> Load STATE done                          1199894029.563429          0.031687
>
> Color calculation done
>
> 1199894029.563629          0.000200
>
> Hobbit pagegen start                     1199894029.563659          0.000030
>
> Hobbit pagegen done                      1199894029.573544          0.009885
>
> BB2 generation done
>
> 1199894029.576605          0.003061
>
> BBNK generation done                     1199894029.577261          0.000656
>
> Summary transmission done                1199894029.577265          0.000004
>
> WML generation done
>
> 1199894029.578793          0.001528
>
> Run completed                            1199894029.578798          0.000005
>
> TIME TOTAL                                                          0.052945
>
>
>
> bbtest-net version
>
> 4.2.0
>
> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
>
> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20327
>
>
> Statistics:
>
>  Hosts total           :      161
>
>  Hosts with no tests   :        1
>
>  Total test count      :      181
>
>  Status messages       :      182
>
>
>
>  Alert status msgs     :        0
>
>  Transmissions         :        3
>
>
> DNS statistics:
>
>  # hostnames resolved  :       16
>
>  # succesful           :       16
>
>  # failed              :        0
>
>  # calls to dnsresolve :       27
>
>
>
>
> TCP test statistics:
>
>  # TCP tests total     :       13
>
>  # HTTP tests          :        5
>
>  # Simple TCP tests    :        8
>
>  # Connection attempts :       13
>
>  # bytes written       :      780
>
>  # bytes read          :    22792
>
>
>
>
>
> TIME SPENT
>
> Event                                            Starttime          Duration
>
> bbtest-net startup                       1199893834.785076                 -
>
> Service definitions loaded
>
> 1199893834.787463          0.002387
>
> Tests loaded                             1199893834.793085          0.005622
>
> DNS lookups completed                    1199893834.883042          0.089957
>
> Test engine setup completed
>
> 1199893834.886789          0.003747
>
> TCP tests completed                      1199893835.028904          0.142115
>
> PING test completed (160 hosts)          1199893870.087696         35.058792
>
> PING test results sent
>
> 1199893870.090125          0.002429
>
> Test result collection completed         1199893870.090173          0.000048
>
> LDAP test engine setup completed         1199893870.090175          0.000002
>
> LDAP tests executed
>
> 1199893870.090177          0.000002
>
> LDAP tests result collection completed   1199893870.090179          0.000002
>
> NSLOOKUP tests executed                  1199893870.244778          0.154599
>
> Test results transmitted
>
> 1199893870.246478          0.001700
>
> bbtest-net completed                     1199893870.248556          0.002078
>
> TIME TOTAL                                                         35.463480
>
>
>
>  On 1/7/08, *Josh Luthman* <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> I've been getting a lot of these recently.  A lot of the time I'll get a
> good 3/4 of the hosts I'm monitoring like this, other days it is just one or
> two.  I can't seem to find any pattern to it.  I'm very confident it isn't
> network related as it happens to the first entry, Hobbit server.  I just
> can't imagine why it would have issues getting to 127.0.0.1!
>
> I was also under the impression that the ping test is done every 60s or
> 120s so these tests just can't be true positive results.
>
> Poking around I also found that the test to my hobbit server (this is
> 127.0.0.1 mind you) went up in early December.
>
> Looking for any input at this point!
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>
>
>
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>



-- 
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
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