Re: [hobbit] Reducing time in port monitoring

[Allan Spencer <allan (at) zandahar.net>]

Trent Melcher wrote:
> I need to monitor port 8888 on one of my servers.  Currently I have 
> this setup and working fine.  What I need to do is redurce the time to 
> every minute.  Im guessing I need to drop the INTERVAL down on the 
> client to 1m so it send the client file to the hobbit server every 
> minute.  What do I need to change on the Hobbit server to read the 
> clients data every minute for the port stats?  Is it as simple as 
> adding the port:60 to the servers entry in the bb-hosts file?
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> Thanks
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> Trent
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From memory this can be done by spawning a second bbnet instance and 
setting its time to a lesser value, and then using the BBLOCATION flag 
in the hosts file against a particular host so ONLY that host gets 
tested on the more frequent time.

Not entirely sure if you can set a second location for only one test for 
example host=xyz.acme.com and your testing http smtp ftp but you ONLY 
want http tested every 60 secs and the rest the default 5

Hopefully someone can expand on it or at least give you the right idea 
of where to look. There is a thread in the arvhice with thre subject 
"fping tuning"  Dated towards the end of April this year that might help 
you out more

Cheers
Allan