[hobbit] Server-to-client test only happens at start-up

[Ward, Martin]

Aha! It seems I made two mistakes (specifically for this problem, never
mind the rest of life):
 
1. The defaults line should be configured thus:
0.0.0.0    .default.    # [insert default tests here]
 
2. You cannot specify network tests in the defaults line.
 
My question now becomes: What defines a network test? This is not as
stupid as it sounds, I am looking at an email sent to this distribution
list back in 2005 where it is said:
 
the default entries can only be used for some of the tags
that you can put in the bb-hosts file, and NOT for the network tests.
Those that you can put in a default section are those that are not host-
or test-specific: dialup, nobb2, nodisp, DESCR, TRENDS, NK, NKTIME,
WML, NOPROP*, REPORTTIME, WARNPCT, NET, nosslcert, ssldays, DOWNTIME,
noping, noconn, trace, notrace, depends.
Surely noconn is a network test (or rather, a negation of one). Also, I
don't really understand what a non-host-specific or non-test-specific
entry is.
Can anyone shed light on this for me?
 
|\/|artin

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	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ward, Martin [mailto:Martin.Ward at colt.net] 
	Sent: 09 January 2008 11:12
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: [hobbit] Server-to-client test only happens at start-up
	
	

	Hi all, 

	I am monitoring a number of servers that have ssh running on
them. In my bb-hosts file on the Hobbit 4.2.0 server I have the
following entries for it:

	.default        defaultsettings # testip pulldata ssh 
	10.44.85.246    cin0.lon.server.com   # 

	The problem is that the ssh connection is only tested when the
Hobbit server is started up. I've trawled through the Hobbit logs but
can't find any mention of any errors (or actual tests for that matter).

	Can anyone offer suggestions about where I should start looking?


	|\/|artin 
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