[hobbit] nightly reboots

[Ralph Mitchell]

How much work is the server doing??  The company that just laid me off has
an old single-cpu, 733MHz DL380 running RedHat 7.2.  It runs a lot of bash
scripts out of cron to fetch and check web pages, with the results being
reported back to the same machine.  Last time I was able to see it, there
were over 400 bb-hosts entries and over 2500 reports.  It has a fairly
constant load average of around 5 or 6, spiking to maybe 10 or 11 whenever
the planets align and a lot of stuff happens simultaneously.

As soon as they can figure out how to replace it, Hobbit'll be shutdown, as
it's not one of the officially blessed monitoring systems.  However, even
the folks in their Integration Labs admit they have nothing that can do
quite what I've done with Hobbit, so I imagine they'll end up telling their
customers the monitoring is being downgraded.  I'd love to be a fly on the
wall for *those* conversations...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com>wrote:

> Ok.. so how do you delay the red alerts? I am wondering if I am just over
> loading this system... I may need to build another bb server so I can split
> up the work load a bit.. thanks in advance!!
>
> -Gavin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:49 AM
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> Subject: Re: [hobbit] nightly reboots
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> I have had the problem where the conn test goes bad for everything
> (not every host, just groups based on bb-hosts) since I installed it
> at the office.  No idea why :(
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> What I do is delay the red sms alerts by a few minutes as it is red
> for only a few seconds, sometimes a minute.
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> On 1/13/09, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >                 I am having an issue where my hobbit server thinks that
> > every server it monitors has been rebooted, so I get blasted with sms
> > messages when this happens. And none of the servers have actually
> rebooted
> > nor has there been any network outages.. ideas?thoughts?
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