[hobbit] client side test frequency tuning

[Marganne, Etienne]

First the CPU test was chosen as an example it sure does not make much sense
to accelerate the frequency of the data collection for that ;-).

About the main topic, I think I have been confusing people a lot with term
misuses. What I would like to do is to accelerate or slow down the frequency
of data collection, not the tests that are held, as you said, on the server
side.
The idea is to try to tune the data collection frequencies the most
accurately possible.

You said that I can change the frequency of the execution of the full Hobbit
client... That is what I do not want to do. But you also said that it would
break up the log file ... only because rising the data collection flow would
be really flood like (thing that I strongly believe possible) or is there
another reason?

Regards,
Etienne Marganne,
TI Automotive.

-----Original Message-----
From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: jeudi 25 janvier 2007 16:04
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] client side test frequency tuning

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Marganne, Etienne wrote:
> 
> The CPU, disks, procs kind of tests are held on the client side right? 

No. That's Big Brother thinking, and you're running Hobbit.

There is no one-to-one correspondance between the client-side script and 
the cpu/disk/memory etc. tests that shows up on the Hobbit display, since 
the latter is generated on the Hobbit server from several of the data items 
that the client-side script collects.

> What I want to do is to change the frequency of the CPU survey without 
> changing anything for the other tests.

You can modify the clientlaunch.cfg to run the full Hobbit client script
every minute, but that would probably break your log-monitoring (log
events would expire in 6 minutes instead of 30), and the vmstat data
would probably be affected as well.


Besides which, it doesn't really make much sense. The CPU load reported
is the 5-minute average from your OS anyway. And do you really want a
sudden spike to trigger full alerts? Just because someone happened to
run "find" in the wrong directory?


Regards,
Henrik


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