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Re: [hobbit] Hobbit HTTP Monitor Anomalies



On Thursday 18 June 2009 17:52:03 James Wade wrote:
> We connected up a sniffer. It appears that the
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> HTTPS request never receives a response. Hobbit is
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> sending it out, but a reply never occurs.


So, it looks like a network problem.

Did you try to access the site with a browser (e.g. lynx or links) on the 
hobbit server - if it also times out, then you've eliminated Hobbit as being 
the problem.

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> James
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> From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade (at) futurefrontiers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:42 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit HTTP Monitor Anomalies
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> So, last weekend, we had a huge conference call because
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> two Production HTTPS URL's that we monitor with Hobbit were
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> getting timeouts exceeding 30 seconds.
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> No other URL's on the Hobbit Server that we monitor were
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> getting any types of timeouts.
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> I have two Hobbit Servers, located at two physical sites, Production
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> & Development. The Production Hobbit Server said that no timeouts
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> occurred on the two HTTPS URL's. However, the Development Hobbit
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> Server (which is the primary monitoring server), indicated that the URL's
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> were timing out.
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> So, the only difference appeared to be in the network. However, our
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> network team looked at the network and showed no latency, and
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> the placed a sniffer on the Development Hobbit Server and saw all
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> HTTPS packets coming back without timeouts.
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> Early this week, we placed a box that sniffs that network and can monitor
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> for specific events. In this case, it's connected to the same network as
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> the Development Hobbit Server, and its monitoring the HTTPS request
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> to the two URL's.
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> Last night, I received timeouts from Hobbit on the URLs, but the sniffer
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> showed not such timeouts.
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> I've checked the Hobbit server,  CPU, Load, Network, all the graphs don't
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> show any correlation to the timeouts.
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> Does anyone have any ideas on this puzzle?
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> Thanks..James