[hobbit] FW: Connections never going yellow?

[Josh Luthman]

Rafal,

If I recall correctly this is a feature that will be implemented out of the
box in 4.3.0 as I am looking forward to this feature as well.

Josh

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Rafal Roginela <
Rafal.Roginela at americashloans.net> wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> Second try,  Is this just not possible? :-(
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> Thank you for all the help in the past with the questions I've had. All is
> working well and I have good confidence in my implementation of this tool.
> However since I am a convert from BigBrother (Free version) there is a
> difference that I hope we can find a way to emulate.
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> The background:
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> We have approx 60 locations sitting out in the US connecting back to HQ
> via commodity DSL using VPN. Naturally we have some packet loss on those
> connections periodically, especially when printing within Citrix or when it
> is busy with data going back and forth.
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> The issue:
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> What used to happen with BB is that when there was a skipped ping out of 3
> an orange condition would trigger not red.
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> What happens with Hobbit is that now I never get a yellow but rather get a
> RED and then a Green within seconds of each other instead of a yellow.
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> Here is the "FPING" line from my server config:
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> FPING="$BBHOME/bin/hobbitping --max-pps=10000000 *--responses=5*"
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> I was had changed this "*--responses=5"* in hopes that it would produce
> the same results but it does not.
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> And I do ping my sites every minute no matter what to test them. Overall
> the BBtest statistics report that I have a total of 83 host pinged and the
> most time it ever took for "Time Total" on the graph is approx 18 seconds
> and that happened once. Most times it is approx 5 seconds.
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> Is there a set of switches or some other way to get the same behavior from
> Hobbit that I had with BB.
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> Thank You for all the help in the past and thank you in advance!
>
> *Rafal Roginela**
> *Network Engineer
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