Re: [hobbit] Differences between bb and hobbit -

[Sloan <joe (at) tmsusa.com>]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Hobbit uses either "hobbitping" or "fping" to do the network tests. Both
> have commandline options that you can use to make them more tolerant of
> brief network outages, see their man-pages.
>
> If that is not sufficient (ie the transient glitches last more than 30
> seconds), then you can use the "badconn:A:B:C" setting in the bb-hosts
> file to delay when the status goes red. From the bb-hosts man-page:
>
>     Normally  when  a  network  test fails, the status changes to 
>     red immediately.  With a "badTEST:x:y:z" tag this behaviour 
>     changes:
>     * While "z" or more successive tests fail, the column goes RED.
>     * While "y" or more successive tests fail, but fewer than "z", 
>       the column goes YELLOW.
>     * While "x" or more successive tests fail, but fewer than "y", 
>       the column goes CLEAR.
>
> If you're monitoring hosts behind these unstable WAN links, you may also
> want to look at the "depends" tag so you won't generate alerts on the
> hosts when the WAN link to them is down.
>
>   

Excellent, this is exactly what I needed, thanks for helping a hobbit
noob find the way.

Joe