Re: [hobbit] the all or nothing nature of hobbit

["Dan Vande More" <bigdan (at) gmail.com>]

Try leveraging the "depends" functionality given in bb-hosts. Correctly
implemented, it should account for most cases of multiple errors with the
tests:

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html

I am unsure as to who maintains the debian pkg. I wish it could make it
mainline though...

Dan


On 12/7/06, Dan Simoes <dan.simoes (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> I love hobbit and have been using it (and BB) for many years, so take this
> as constructive criticism.
>
> One of my biggest headaches with BB (and now hobbit) has been the
> all-or-nothing nature of alerts.
> By this I mean that if your main network link is down, everything goes red
> for network status.
>
> Something happened on my monitoring box (probably DNS) that caused a
> cadence of http errors.  http was not truly down on all these N hosts on
> various networks, it was the network test that was failing on the monitoring
> box.
>
> I'm unaware of a solution to this issue, and I'm considering moving to
> another product because of it.
> Are there any solutions, either existing or planned?
>
> Lastly, who is maintaining the debian package for hobbit?  Both the server
> and client packages still have the same bugs I reported months ago.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan