[hobbit] nightly reboots

[michael nemeth]

Maybe his NET is overloaded.  We run some security scripts  at night 
that hit the networks so heavy we get network problems .
Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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>     From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
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>     Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:49 AM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     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 :(
>
>     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.
>
>     On 1/13/09, Gavin Leonard <gleonard at progrexion.com
>     <mailto: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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