I don't know about doing retries in bb-net, but it's really quite easy to roll your own http/https tests. A very simple case could look something like this:<div><br></div><div> #!/bin/bash</div><div><br></div><div>
curl -s -S -L -retry 3 --max-time 30 -o /dev/null <a href="https://server.domain.com/whatever">https://server.domain.com/whatever</a></div><div> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then</div><div> COLOR=green</div><div> MESSAGE="page fetched OK"</div>
<div> else</div><div> COLOR=red</div><div> MESSAGE="page fetch failed"</div><div> fi</div><div><br></div><div> $BB $BBDISP "status server,domain,com.https $COLOR `date`</div><div><br></div><div>
$MESSAGE"</div><div><br></div><div>The status message needs commas in the fully qualified server name, because the column name is separated from the server name by a dot... The content in $MESSAGE can include html, such as a clickable url so your ops can try to click through to verify the server status. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I've done a bunch of these in the last 8 years... :)</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph Mitchell</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:52 AM, James Wade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkwade@futurefrontiers.com">jkwade@futurefrontiers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">We connected up a sniffer. It appears that
the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">HTTPS request never receives a response.
Hobbit is</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">sending it out, but a reply never occurs.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">James</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> James Wade
[mailto:<a href="mailto:jkwade@futurefrontiers.com" target="_blank">jkwade@futurefrontiers.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:42
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] Hobbit HTTP
Monitor Anomalies </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">So, last weekend, we had a huge conference call because</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">two Production HTTPS URL’s that we monitor with Hobbit
were</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">getting timeouts exceeding 30 seconds.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">No other URL’s on the Hobbit Server that we monitor
were</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">getting any types of timeouts.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I have two Hobbit Servers, located at two physical sites,
Production</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">& Development. The Production Hobbit Server said that no
timeouts</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">occurred on the two HTTPS URL’s. However, the
Development Hobbit</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Server (which is the primary monitoring server), indicated
that the URL’s</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">were timing out. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">So, the only difference appeared to be in the network.
However, our</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">network team looked at the network and showed no latency,
and</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">the placed a sniffer on the Development Hobbit Server and
saw all</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">HTTPS packets coming back without timeouts.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Early this week, we placed a box that sniffs that network
and can monitor</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">for specific events. In this case, it’s connected to
the same network as</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">the Development Hobbit Server, and its monitoring the HTTPS
request</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">to the two URL’s.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Last night, I received timeouts from Hobbit on the URLs, but
the sniffer</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">showed not such timeouts. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I’ve checked the Hobbit server, CPU, Load,
Network, all the graphs don’t</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">show any correlation to the timeouts. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Does anyone have any ideas on this puzzle?</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Thanks….James</span></font></p>
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