Inexplicable purple on running services

[Rob Munsch]

Consider the below.  Approx. 25 minutes ago, across all monitored 
systems, all net monitored services - ssh, ldaps and dns - went to 
purple.  They are still up, running, and just fine in every respect.  
The status message is even the same as when it was showing green.  But 
now every ssh, ldaps and dns light is purple.

The last thing i was messing with when this happened was the alerts 
config file; i hadn't touched bb-hosts.  cpu, disk, memory etc. all 
remain green.

I cannot find anything in the logs that indicated what changed 25 
minutes ago.  I have restarted the hobbitd.  Something like this seemed 
to happen yesterday; after a number of monitored services were green and 
unchanging for a while, they went purple, yet report as "OK" across the 
board.  While tweaking other settings, everything went back to normal.  
I don't understand what could call this, or why it's displaying the 
purple light when it "knows" it's fine.

Any ideas?



      Mon Oct 31 16:30:06 2005 ssh ok

Service ssh on <machinename> is OK (up)

SSH-<ver>-OpenSSH_<ver>

Seconds: 0.00

Status unchanged in 0 hours, 25 minutes

Status message received from hobbitd

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Rob Munsch
Systems Analyst, Solutions for Progress
http://www.solutionsforprogress.com