Michael,<br><br>Take a look at this...<br><br><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">DNS statistics:</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # hostnames resolved : 302
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # succesful : 5</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # failed : 297
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # calls to dnsresolve : 306<br><br>Your hosts are failing to resolve. Do you have records for all of your hosts? If you're not expecting to resolve the names, then just add testip to the end of the hosts' lines.
<br></span></font></pre><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael A. Price</b> <<a href="mailto:mprice@sgt-inc.com">mprice@sgt-inc.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hello,</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">I have a problem with my
hobbit server, when ever a ping monitored host goes down, the bbtest column
goes yellow on my hobbit server. I think it is because of the ping tests
taking forever… but how can I fix this?</span></font></p>
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<h3><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fri
Nov 16 11:16:24 2007</span></font></b></h3>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">bbtest-net version 4.2.0</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7m 23 Feb 2007</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20213</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Statistics:</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
Hosts total : 302</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Hosts with no tests : 0</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
Total test count : 306</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Status messages : 307</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
Alert status msgs : 0</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Transmissions : 5</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">DNS statistics:</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # hostnames resolved : 302
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # succesful : 5</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # failed : 297
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # calls to dnsresolve : 306</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>
</font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TCP test statistics:</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # TCP tests total : 2
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # HTTP tests : 1</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # Simple TCP tests : 1
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # Connection attempts : 2</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # bytes written : 135
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> # bytes read : 553</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>
</font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Error output:</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it</span>
</font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Child process terminated with signal 15</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Timeout waiting for data from child, killing it</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
Child process terminated with signal 15</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TIME SPENT</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Event Starttime Duration
</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">bbtest-net startup 1195211784.377827 -</span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Service definitions loaded 1195211784.378930 0.001103 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tests loaded
1195211784.397124 0.018194 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">DNS lookups completed 1195211784.397132 0.000008 </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Test engine setup completed 1195211784.444487 0.047355 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
TCP tests completed 1195211784.445259 0.000772 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">PING</span></font> test completed (302 hosts)
1195211809.051296 24.606037 </pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">PING</span></font> test results sent 1195211869.064344 60.013048 </pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Test result collection completed 1195211869.064360 0.000016 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LDAP test engine setup completed
1195211869.064372 0.000012 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LDAP tests executed 1195211869.064377 0.000005 </span></font></pre>
<pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LDAP tests result collection completed 1195211869.064380 0.000003 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
NSLOOKUP tests executed 1195211869.067454 0.003074 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Test results transmitted 1195211869.069890
0.002436 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">bbtest-net completed 1195211869.070715 0.000825 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">TIME TOTAL 84.692888 </span></font></pre><pre><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></pre>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Thanks, michael</span></font></p>
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