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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Ralph,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm using 4.2.3 - this is for a production area so
I'm weary to try out betas currently, we need stability. I've configured bbproxy
as a service on Solaris so it can bring itself back, but it will just crash
again so I think we might miss quite a few messages..which links into my second
point -> I was trying to find a way of configuring things such as conn, cpu
etc to have a faster purple time and to alert for it. I've found the lifetime
option but this as far as I can see is for custom stuff - not sure how to set it
up for tests such as conn, ssh, cpu etc?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll try out your script tomorrow and have a play -
as it currently stands if a bbserver dies for whatever reason (and therefore a
bbproxy) it can look for up to half an hour like many things are "green" when
they arn't infact being updated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ralphmitchell@gmail.com href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">Ralph
Mitchell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hobbit@hswn.dk
href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 07, 2009 6:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] Multiple hobbit
(bbproxy and bb server) queries</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>What version of hobbit/xymon are you running?? I used to
have a problem like that with 4.2. No bbproxy involved there, just
several hobbit servers. If one of them was down, the server/bin/bb
command would hang trying to talk to it. It should have either failed to
make the connect or timed out, but it didn't. Anyway...
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>You could set up a simple heartbeat script, a bit like this:</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV> #!/bin/bash</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV> $BB $BBDISP "status+2 bbproxyname.panicnow
`date`</DIV>
<DIV> If this is purple, a bbproxy
died."</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Set that up to launch every minute. The message has a lifetime of 2
minutes, so it'll go purple about 3 minutes after the bbproxy hangs up or
dies. You might want to pick a different column name. :)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Ralph Mitchell</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:40 AM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:j.sansford@ntlworld.com">j.sansford@ntlworld.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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guys,<BR><BR>You may remember my questions from last week. Thanks again for
these. I have now implemented it however I have a few questions (and
possibly bugs?). I will first start by describing the setup. To keep things
simple I'll call each hobbit server IP as either "A" "B" or "C" depending on
the data centre.<BR><BR>Data centre 1:<BR>bbproxy and bbserver (running on
same box, A). bbproxy configured to send to B,C,A. bbserver configured to
talk to A,B,C in hobbitserver.cfg.<BR><BR>Data centre 2:<BR>bbproxy and
bbserver (running on same box, B). bbproxy configured to send to C,A,B.
bbserver configured to talk to B,C,A in hobbitserver.cfg.<BR><BR>Data centre
3:<BR>bbproxy and bbserver (running on same box, C). bbproxy configured to
send to A,B,C. bbserver configured to talk to C,A,B in
hobbitserver.cfg.<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------<BR>Firstly,
everything looks good. However, if I am to stop bbserver at A (but keep
bbproxy running at A) then shortly afterwards bbproxy at A will start
crashing. I've tried changing the order of --bbdisplays and it seems like
the bbproxy will crash if the last bbdisplay IP has been shutdown/not
available. Is this known, or is there a workaround?<BR><BR>To explain this
better - Lets say bbproxy at site B is configured as --bbdisplays=B,C,A. If
I kill the xymon server at site A then this proxy will crash shortly
afterwards. Note I'm on x86 Solaris.<BR><BR><BR>My other question is this -
currently if a proxy crashes and the other 2 xymon servers do not receive
updates, most tests continue to stay green. I'm sure I've seen a
configuration option but I can't seem to find it - can I configure these
tests to go purple if they don't receive an update within the next 5-10
minutes? They've only just gone purple after 30 minutes, but we really need
to know within 5 minutes if we haven't received a valid update.<BR><BR>Many
thanks,<BR>James.<BR><BR>To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail
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