[xymon] Wrong (or badly interpreted) http response time with hobbit 4.2.0

[Josh Luthman]

Is that the host performing the http test or the host the test is
being performed on?

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373



On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Benoit SCHMID <Benoit.Schmid at unige.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Unfortunately, I have :Status not available.
>
> for
> http://hobbitserver/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=xxx.unige.ch&SERVICE=bbtest
>
> But the following works fine:
> http://hobbitserver/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=xxx.unige.ch&SERVICE=http
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh Luthman a écrit :
>>
>> On your bbdisplay it is probably the very first line item.  For
>> example it says bbtest on this page:
>>
>> http://xymon.com/xymon/servers/servers.html
>>
>> Linked to this:
>>
>> http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=voodoo.hswn.dk&SERVICE=bbtest
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Benoit SCHMID <Benoit.Schmid at unige.ch>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could you please tell me where I can get this info?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Well instead of guessing - look at bbtest and see what the DNS test
>>>> times are.  If you can, share the entire output.
>>>>
>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>> Suite 1337
>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Benoit SCHMID <Benoit.Schmid at unige.ch>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> If I do, from the hobbit server:
>>>>> nslookup xxx.unige.ch ip_address_dns
>>>>> respond very fast.
>>>>>
>>>>> In resolv.conf, the dns in the first line is our authoritative name
>>>>> server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore it does not seems to be the dns time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Josh Luthman a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to say that Xymon doesn't use cache, issuing a query upon every
>>>>>> new host, but I am not certain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Benoit SCHMID
>>>>>> <Benoit.Schmid at unige.ch>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As I have already said, this would be dur to the dns,
>>>>>>> I would have had the pb with wget too wouldn't I?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tony Larco a écrit :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am wondering if you have a DNS issue causing latency.  Just a
>>>>>>>> thought.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Neil Franken" <nfranken at theunlimited.co.za> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Have you done a trace route from the Xymon server? Maybe that would
>>>>>>>>> show
>>>>>>>>> you something? Sorry just a suggestion from the top of my head.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>> From: Benoit SCHMID [mailto:Benoit.Schmid at unige.ch] Sent: 01
>>>>>>>>> September
>>>>>>>>> 2010 08:36 AM
>>>>>>>>> To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [xymon] Wrong (or badly interpreted) http response time
>>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>>> hobbit 4.2.0
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have monitored machines that are reporting around 3.5 seconds
>>>>>>>>> for the HTTP response time during the whole day (curve flat).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I do wgets, from the Solaris machine where hobbit server is
>>>>>>>>> installed,
>>>>>>>>> I get response times that is lower than 100 ms.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Our old BB server reports response times that are also lower than
>>>>>>>>> 100
>>>>>>>>> ms.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Would you know why my hobbit monitor report such high response
>>>>>>>>> times?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your answer.
>>>>>>>>>
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