[hobbit] Remote status display

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:09:17PM +0200, Gee Pee wrote:
> 
> Then everything works seems to work fine, but... On host Y, there are 7 
> so called Remote Status Displays (RSD) and each time I refresh the 
> browser, I see all 7 RSD. On Hobbit host X however, a refresh make some 
> RSD disappear!? After waiting some time, and the normal refresh, the 
> page is showing the normal stuff again, so finally it ressembles the BB 
> display. But, it seems to me the RSD are not sticky.
> 
> Is there some explanation for this behaviour?

RSD's are deleted automatically if they haven't been updated. A normal
test would go purple, but RSD's are just silently dropped. They are also
not saved across a restart of the Hobbit daemon, so if you do a restart
then they'll disappear - until an update arrives and then they'll
re-appear.

I've had a couple of reports that the HEARTBEAT setting in
hobbitlaunch.cfg triggers too frequently, causing a restart of the
Hobbit daemon - this will cause your RSD's to disappear. If that is the case, 
you should see messages in the /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log file about 
this - could you check if there is any mention of "heartbeat lost" in that file ? 
You can try and just remove the "HEARTBEAT" line from hobbitlaunch.cfg
(the heartbeat-thing is a kludge, really - it should not be needed).


Henrik