Re: [hobbit] stale alerts

["Josh Luthman" <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Click on it the host's test and click on history - was red at all?

Are the WWW pages updating?  Look in the top right corner of the page once
you click on the host's test link.

On 11/14/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed this morning that our Hobbit server was sending out alerts
> for the process check for a machine that was actually shown as green
> on the hobbit  web page.  I checked on the monitored machine, and the
> alert was indeed green, yet the server was still sending out emails as
> though it were in a yellow state.  I restarted the Hobbit client on
> the monitored machine, and then restarted the Hobbit server on the
> server.  After doing this, I noticed the following in the page.log
> file:
>
> 2007-11-14 10:26:13 Stale alert for host-name:procs dropped
>
> (I changed the actual host name to "host-name" to protect the innocent)
> What exactly does this mean?  Before I restarted the Hobbit server
> process, I manually edited the alert.chk temp file and removed the
> erroneous alert, but that didn't correct the problem.  It was only
> after I restarted the Hobbit server process that it cleared the alert.
> Is this a bug in the 4.2.0 code, or is there something else going on
> here?
>
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