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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=980503312-09062009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Well, that changes things!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=980503312-09062009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>First, if the column goes black instead of purple, it means
that the agent is trying to do the right thing. The "black" (or "white")
state means "nothing to report" and does not mean up or down. "Purple"
means "no data received before lifetime expired".</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=980503312-09062009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>So how do the Windows vbs scripts communicate with the
remote Hobbit server? Are you using BBWin, or the Big Brother NT
client?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=980503312-09062009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Cayo de Moraes
[mailto:camorae@googlemail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:07
AM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext
Scripts after 30min are unavaliable<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi Greg,<BR><BR>thank you for your support, it gave me the right
direction! =D<BR><BR>I found out that this lifetime in the scripts should look
like this:<BR><PRE>$BB $BBDISP "status+70 $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` OK"<BR>
</PRE><BR>but the Windows .vbs scripts dont give such parameters back to
hobbit-server... I just dont know how to implement this "status+time" in the vbs
scripts...<BR><BR>another thing is that the column dont get purple but black!
<BR><BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/6/8 HUBBARD, GREG ((EDS)) <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:ghubbard@hp.com">ghubbard@hp.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>By
default, the Hobbit server expects your tests to update at least once every 30
minutes. This is the LIFETIME parameter. After "LIFETIME" expires
with no updates the server marks the test "purple" and sends an
alert.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The fix is
simple -- in your script you need to send a LIFETIME value when you send
your status message. If you test once every day, you need to calculate
LIFETIME as 24 * 60 + some extra in case your test is delayed from some
reason.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You can
read about this in the man pages for the "bb" command (Xymon communications
program).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Cayo de Moraes [mailto:<A
href="mailto:camorae@googlemail.com" target=_blank>camorae@googlemail.com</A>]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 08, 2009 8:17 AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk"
target=_blank>hobbit@hswn.dk</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts
after 30min are unavaliable<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>Hi guys,<BR><BR>im monitoring with some external scripts on my
BBWin and when i try to set up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I
noticed that the column get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this
client.<BR><BR>Is it a know issue?<BR><BR>I also tryed to put this paragraphs
(i readed it here somewhere) in the
hobbit-client.cfg:<BR><BR>MAXMSG_DATA="5242880"<BR>MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880"<BR>MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880"<BR><BR><BR>Nothing
works... do i have to setup something else on server/client
side?<BR><BR>TIA<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>