[hobbit] Problem with badhttp

[ZanDAhaR]

Paul Bliss wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
>  I've got an ongoing issue that I just can't seem to get around where 
> hobbit is reporting http timeouts on what I know to be healthy webservers.
>
> I've tried using badhttp in the bb_hosts file like so:
> 192.168.1.219   server.example.net              # smtp ftp 
> http://home.example.net badhttp:3:4:10
>
> I though this would clear up my problem as it should tern clear after 
> 3 failures, yellow after 4 and red only after 10, but in practice, it 
> still is skipping all stages and going right to red on I assume the 
> first test. The "red" condition usually lasts only between 9 and 50 
> seconds, so it's very difficult for me to note machine state of the 
> server and monitor system while it's happening.
>
>
>  SO if anyone has a direction to point me in towards either getting 
> badhttp to behave as I expect it or to get http monitoring to work out 
> this intermittent error, you would be a hero to me.
>
> Thanks
>  
> Paul Bliss
> Network and Systems Administrator
> TechValley Communications
> pbliss at techvalleycom.com
>
Just thought I would also like to say that occasionally we are getting 
the same thing but when it happens ALL our hosts go red not just a few. 
The all hit the default 10 sec timeout. Strange thing is we have a 
number of hosts also ssl enabled and those tests never seem to go red.

Hopefully theres some kind of issue here with hobbit (even though I hope 
theres not) but I'd like it to get resolved. Getting woken up @ 3am with 
your pager going off like its on crack is not friendly heh

Allan