FW: Connections never going yellow?

["Rafal Roginela" <Rafal.Roginela (at) AmeriCashLoans.net>]

Hi all,

 

Second try,  Is this just not possible? :-(

 

Thank you for all the help in the past with the questions I've had. All
is working well and I have good confidence in my implementation of this
tool. However since I am a convert from BigBrother (Free version) there
is a difference that I hope we can find a way to emulate.

 

The background:

We have approx 60 locations sitting out in the US connecting back to HQ
via commodity DSL using VPN. Naturally we have some packet loss on those
connections periodically, especially when printing within Citrix or when
it is busy with data going back and forth.

 

The issue:

What used to happen with BB is that when there was a skipped ping out of
3 an orange condition would trigger not red.

What happens with Hobbit is that now I never get a yellow but rather get
a RED and then a Green within seconds of each other instead of a yellow.

 

Here is the "FPING" line from my server config:

FPING="$BBHOME/bin/hobbitping --max-pps=10000000 --responses=5"

 

I was had changed this "--responses=5" in hopes that it would produce
the same results but it does not.

 

And I do ping my sites every minute no matter what to test them. Overall
the BBtest statistics report that I have a total of 83 host pinged and
the most time it ever took for "Time Total" on the graph is approx 18
seconds and that happened once. Most times it is approx 5 seconds.

 

Is there a set of switches or some other way to get the same behavior
from Hobbit that I had with BB.

 

Thank You for all the help in the past and thank you in advance! 

Rafal Roginela
Network Engineer