[hobbit] Test goes purple randomly

[Sanu Mathew]

Folks,

My hobbit server has suddenly started showing conn and ssh entries to be
purple, everytime, i restart the hobbit service on my hobbit server, all
looks green and appropriate for a few mins, and then they are again back to
purple. I have read the below email, but can someone tell me, where to
change the LIFETIME, or does making a change to the LIFETIME fix my problem?

Any help at the earliest would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,
Sanu

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Richard Finegold <goldfndr at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
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