[hobbit] disabled monitors showing purple occasionally on web ui

[Bruce Lysik]

> OK, I found out why - when a host was disabled, hobbit's "valid until"
> timestamp for the statusreport was not being updated; so to bbgen it
> appeared as if the status message was no longer valid, hence it would
> show up purple.  This would actually trigger a status update so the
> "valid until" timestamp was refreshed, and it would stay blue for
> another 30 minutes.
> 
> Cute interaction between the hobbit daemon and bbgen.

Cool.  Were you able to fix this in RC4?  Because I just installed RC4, and it looks like it's still there.  Or at least a similar problem is.  At the moment I have three disabled purple monitors showing.

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <blysik at shutterfly.com>
Operations Engineer