[hobbit] interpretation of status/colour for combo test

[Jones, Jason (Altrincham)]

What's wrong with using an availability report for this? 

Jason.
-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] 
Sent: 30 October 2006 15:18
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] interpretation of status/colour for combo test

I have been asked to provide an availability number for a number of
services 
monitored as separate hosts with Hobbit. Eg, two different IP addresses 
running a few different services, and we need to provide an availability

number for the combination (eg, when was everything working correctly).

I have set up a rule in bbcombotest.cfg, but according to the man page,
green, 
yellow or clear result in 1 ("true"), and red, purple or blue result in
0 
("false").

However, I would like the combined service to appear "down" when one of
the 
monitored services is yellow (eg smtp being yellow indicates a failure).

It would be nice if some of this were configurable, or if each state had
a 
distinct value.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)