RE: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable

["HUBBARD, GREG ((EDS))" <ghubbard (at) hp.com>]

Well, that changes things!

First, if the column goes black instead of purple, it means that the agent is trying to do the right thing.  The "black" (or "white") state means "nothing to report" and does not mean up or down.  "Purple" means "no data received before lifetime expired".

So how do the Windows vbs scripts communicate with the remote Hobbit server?  Are you using BBWin, or the Big Brother NT client?

GLH

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From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:07 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable

Hi Greg,

thank you for your support, it gave me the right direction! =D

I found out that this lifetime in the scripts should look like this:

$BB $BBDISP "status+70 $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` OK"



but the Windows .vbs scripts dont give such parameters back to hobbit-server... I just dont know how to implement this "status+time" in the vbs scripts...

another thing is that the column dont get purple but black!


Thanks



2009/6/8 HUBBARD, GREG ((EDS)) <ghubbard (at) hp.com<mailto:ghubbard (at) hp.com>>
By default, the Hobbit server expects your tests to update at least once every 30 minutes.  This is the LIFETIME parameter.  After "LIFETIME" expires with no updates the server marks the test "purple" and sends an alert.

The fix is simple -- in your script you need to send a LIFETIME value when you send your status message.  If you test once every day, you need to calculate LIFETIME as 24 * 60 + some extra in case your test is delayed from some reason.

You can read about this in the man pages for the "bb" command (Xymon communications program).

GLH

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From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com<mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com>]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:17 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk<mailto:hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Subject: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable

Hi guys,

im monitoring with some external scripts on my BBWin and when i try to set up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I noticed that the column get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this client.

Is it a know issue?

I also tryed to put this paragraphs (i readed it here somewhere) in the hobbit-client.cfg:

MAXMSG_DATA="5242880"
MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880"
MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880"


Nothing works... do i have to setup something else on server/client side?

TIA