[hobbit] polling period in hobbit

[Iain M Conochie]

Engineering wrote:
>
> I am experiencing problems with the paging not sending out alerts in 
> time. In looking at the “conn” column, I would assume that if the 
> device has missed 3 poll periods than the seconds that would have 
> elapsed would be 180sec. Being that my poll period I thought was 60 
> seconds for conn. Here is a host that had an issue lastnight:
>

I think you will find the interesting stats are:

PING test completed (1316 hosts) 1223033647.588782 65.395048
TIME TOTAL 85.806133

So if you set you poll time to 60 seconds and it takes 85 seconds to 
complete you are going to have issues!

Cheers

Iain

> Service conn on gsoncit-jws-nsc-1 is not OK : Host does not respond to 
> ping
>
> System unreachable for 3 poll periods (348 seconds)
>
> I looked at the “bbtest” column and here are my stats:
>
> *Fri Oct 3 07:32:41 2008*
>
> bbtest-net version 4.2.0
>
> SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
>
> LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20327
>
> Statistics:
>
> Hosts total : 1290
>
> Hosts with no tests : 2
>
> Total test count : 1341
>
> Status messages : 1342
>
> Alert status msgs : 0
>
> Transmissions : 14
>
> DNS statistics:
>
> # hostnames resolved : 1289
>
> # succesful : 1272
>
> # failed : 17
>
> # calls to dnsresolve : 1341
>
> TCP test statistics:
>
> # TCP tests total : 46
>
> # HTTP tests : 1
>
> # Simple TCP tests : 45
>
> # Connection attempts : 46
>
> # bytes written : 386
>
> # bytes read : 6449
>
> TIME SPENT
>
> Event Starttime Duration
>
> bbtest-net startup 1223033561.966478 -
>
> Service definitions loaded 1223033561.971409 0.004931
>
> Tests loaded 1223033577.163407 15.191998
>
> DNS lookups completed 1223033582.170201 5.006794
>
> Test engine setup completed 1223033582.184175 0.013974
>
> TCP tests completed 1223033582.193734 0.009559
>
> PING test completed (1316 hosts) 1223033647.588782 65.395048
>
> PING test results sent 1223033647.598961 0.010179
>
> Test result collection completed 1223033647.599010 0.000049
>
> LDAP test engine setup completed 1223033647.599012 0.000002
>
> LDAP tests executed 1223033647.599014 0.000002
>
> LDAP tests result collection completed 1223033647.599016 0.000002
>
> DNS tests executed 1223033647.600062 0.001046
>
> RPC tests executed 1223033647.713111 0.113049
>
> Test results transmitted 1223033647.770369 0.057258
>
> bbtest-net completed 1223033647.772611 0.002242
>
> TIME TOTAL 85.806133
>
> Anyone know what my be the issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>