[hobbit] RE: multiple http test

[Josh Luthman]

Steve,

Could you do us a huge favor and share your bb-hosts config for what you
explained?

Josh

On 12/12/07, s_aiello at comcast.net <s_aiello at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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