[hobbit] RE: multiple http test

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Shah, Haresh K (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:
> can anyone please help me on this?
>
> ~ Haresh
> ________________________________
>
> From: Shah, Haresh K (GE, Corporate, consultant)
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:45 PM
> To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
> Subject: multiple http test
>
>
>  Hi Henrik,
>
> 1) I want to have multiple http test for the same host. We have so many
> web servers running on the same host. Here we can't differentiate those
> processses by some unique pattern (otehrwise 'procs' would be helpful).
> So I need to do multiple http test all having different service name, so
> that my group of people got the mail of the service which fails
> individually. so that I used following in the bb-hosts file.
>
> group-only files|http1|http11       OTHER BOXES
>
> 1.2.3.4  xyz  # cont=http1;http://xyz.com:8080/index.html;First
> cont=http11;http://xyz.com:1016;busy
>
> In hobbit-alerts.cfg :
>
> HOST=%*.xyz.com
>         MAIL abc at xyz.com SERVICE=%http* COLOR=red DURATION>1 RECOVERED
>
> Now, all went fine if both the sites are up. but problem starts when one
> of the sites went down. In that case I got the "No output received from
> server" on the hobbit web page after clicking on that service & it went
> white. I need it to be red, so that I can set alert for the same. Here I
> am using iPlanet as web server & Jboss as application server. 1016 is
> the port where jboss listens.
> My concern is why the test become white instead of red, if it didn't
> find the page only? Manually by typing the URL in IE it gives "page
> can't be displayed"
> If I use http test (without cont=) then it went red. I understand that
> might be hobbit tried to find out the contents on the web page. ( am i
> right?) but then as i mentioned earlier I might not be able to set
> seperate http test. please suggest the work around.
>
> 2) Another thing I want to mention that initially I made two tests -
> http1 & http11. When I removed
> cont=http1;http://xyz.com:8080/index.html;First  from bb-hosts file and
> replaced http11 with http1 then old data is not refreshed! I restarted
> hobbit server also. but the old data remains on the web page and can't
> be refreshed(even time is also showing the last successful refreshed on
> the web page). Actually now on web page i should able to see the result
> of - http://xyz.com:1016 for http1 test as i removed old http1 test &
> replaced it with http11 test. But still I am able to see result of -
> http://xyz.com:8080/index.html. Even though I already removed it from
> the bb-hosts file.
> can we call it as bug? Or please suggest me, if I am missing something.
>
> ~ Haresh

With cont tests, if the http query is unable to be made, then the http test 
will be red & the cont test will be clear. So your description of the 
situation is the way that Hobbit works.

I also have servers that run 10+ apache instances, and it is difficult to 
monitor all http URLs. What I did was create a monitoring device for each 
apache instance. So I keep server level tests with the server device & all 
apache tests with the apache device entries.

 ~Steve