[hobbit] http network test

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 11:17:41 Anna Jonna Armannsdottir wrote:
> On þri, 2008-01-29 at 17:03 -0600, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> > I've got a few instances of
> >
> >      a.b.c.d   www.server.com     # http://www.server.com/
> >
> > and the http column shows up just fine,  including the time the test
> > took and a nice graph.
> >
> > The question I was just asked is, is it possible to specify "max
> > response time", so that if the time shown is greater than N seconds I
> > get a red flag??  I don't see a way to set that in the man pages for
> > either bb-hosts or hobbit-client.cfg.
>
> There is the possibility to use a per host test e.g.:
>
> a.b.c.d www.server.com # http://www.server.com/
> badhttp-06-0000-2359:3:5:8 badhttp-12345-2200-0659:3:5:8
> badhttp-12345-0700-2159:1:2:3
>
> This specifies the number of times the test has to be
> yellow or red, in order to actually siglal yellow or red
> (to the alert module- correct me if i am wrong here).
>
> I suggest that this may be seen as your time N (in seconds)
> given by T*yellow and T*red . T is the time between tests
> or retests.
>
> In the working hours, I get a
> warning if http is down for T*2 or more, and an
> alert if it is down for T*3 minutes or more.
>
> Some clarification may be called for here.
>
> The beauty of this, is that it can be configured per
> time of day or day of the week as is done in the
> example. BTW. I am actually using this. :)

But, it doesn't allow you to change the timeout (e.g., http server 1 with slow 
application always takes 30 seconds to give content back, but http server 2 
must respond in less than 5 seconds to meet SLA) before the test is 
considered to have failed.

Regards,
Buchan