[hobbit] another approach: http check tweaking

Thomas tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk
Fri Oct 21 08:26:01 CEST 2005


You could use the badhttp tag. Read the man page of bb-hosts and tailor 
it to your needs. I have mine set for badhttp:1:2:4 which have given me 
a nicer overview.

/Thomas

Paul Bliss wrote:

> Hello all,
>  I'm having a bear of a time trying to figure out why my http checks 
> are intermittently timing out on me. It will work fine for hours, and 
> then I'll get an http timeout. It's been REALLY hard to catch it while 
> it's happening because the "outage" lasts between 10 and 50 
> seconds. All this started after the Hobbit system was rudely rebooted 
> so I'm reluctant to believe that there's a real problem. So my revised 
> question, is the http monitor tweakable to be more permissive or am I 
> barking up the wrong tree?
>  
> Thanks in advance, 
> Paul 




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