Re: [hobbit] Test goes purple randomly

[Wayne Gemmell <wayne (at) flashmedia.co.za>]

Excelent, thanks. This also explains why the test was purple for an hour, 
green for an hour when the test was set for exery hour.

On Friday 24 October 2008 03:47:51 Samuel Cai wrote:
> Found history email:
>
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:44 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Tricky bug in Purple status determination
>
>
>
> When a report comes in to Hobbit, the default "time to live" for the
> report is 30 mins.  As long as another report comes in within that time,
> the timer is reset.  If there's no report, that column goes purple.
>
> If your test is reporting every 30 mins, there's a good chance it'll
> exhibit the behaviour you describe.
>
> What you should do is alter the test script to use the "status+LIFETIME"
> format, where LIFETIME is the life span of the report, as described in
> the bb man page, and make the lifetime a bit longer than the the test
> interval.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>


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Regards
Wayne