[hobbit] LIFETIME, purple statuses & check intervals

[Rich Smrcina]

Clients still report back to the server in 5 minute intervals by 
default.  That is part of the standard client reporting protocol that 
even the clients that I wrote for System z operating systems adhere to.  
The 30 minute timer is used to alert someone that a client has stopped 
reporting it's status to the server because it is no longer running or 
the client is in some way distressed.

The nature of 30 minutes and the purple color is rooted in Hobbit (now 
Xymon) being derived from the Big Brother BTF network services monitor.

On 01/25/2010 12:25 PM,  Kii NODA wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We're in the process of moving away from Zabbix and have been 
> considering Xymon/Hobbit for this move. We do, however, have a few 
> things we need to clear up.
>
> We've been deployng Hobbig on a Debian Lenny box and have a few Debian 
> (Sarge, Etch, Lenny) and a few Fedora clients. We are, at this point, 
> wondering about the reasons behind having a LIFETIME of 30 minutes for 
> checks. The way we see things, we'd rather have this as 6 minutes 
> considering a 5 minute interval for the checks. Can anyone please 
> explain why this has been setup as such and if/how this can be 
> changed? Been going through /etc/hobbit files, read man pages and 
> exercised our Google-Fu but could not come up with a solution.
>
> Also, could someone please suggest a reason for not moving interval 
> checks to lower values, such as 1 minute? Zabbix has been spoiling us 
> with very small check intervals, giving us the feeling of staying on 
> top of things.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> -- 
> kN


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