[hobbit] Question about Hobbit

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Feb 15 07:24:14 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:55:28PM +0100, Adam Tetz wrote:
> Iv'e got a question about Hobbit,
> The helpfile says : By default, Hobbit will always check if the host is up
> and running by trying to "ping" it. This results in a *conn* column on the
> Hobbit webpage for this host, showing if the ping-test succeeded. If you
> have a host that does not respond to ping - e.g. because there is a firewall
> that filters out such requests - then you can disable the ping-test by
> putting a "noconn" keyword on the line in bb-hosts.
> 
> But this doesn't work!
> 
> My line is:  0.0.0.0      (website)    # noconn
> 
> But the connection icon stays red.

If you started out without the "noconn", then there is a "conn" status
that you must explicitly delete. You do this with
   bb 127.0.0.1 "drop website conn"

> Also the icons fomr the Hobbit server itself are truning purple? How can i
> switch them back to green??

Purple means they are not being updated. Did you change the hostname of
your Hobbit server in the bb-hosts file ?


Regards,
Henrik




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