[hobbit] Test goes purple randomly

[Richard Finegold]

If one uses a default ratio of 5:30 (5 minute poll, 30 minute expire)
then LIFETIME should be more than "a bit longer than" the life span of
the report. Assuming the philosophy of no less than 5 missed intervals
leading to purple is consistent. Hmm...

Ah, the bb manpage says "sligtly more than" (sic) "is a good idea".
This is contradicted by the LIFETIME default of 30. Two ways come to
mind to resolve this contradiction:
  * Change LIFETIME to 6 or 7 (hobbitd.c, handle_status, validity).
  * Change the manpage's text, from "sligtly more than" to "a multiple
of" (or something similar).

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Samuel Cai
<Samuel.Cai at ehealth-china.com> wrote:
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:44 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Tricky bug in Purple status determination
>
[snip]
> What you should do is alter the test script to use the "status+LIFETIME"
> format, where LIFETIME is the life span of the report, as described in
> the bb man page, and make the lifetime a bit longer than the the test
> interval.