Re: [hobbit] How Can I Change ping Frequency to every 30 Seconds?

[Scott Ryan <scottlryan (at) gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:50 PM,  <wiskbroom (at) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> From: bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net
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>> On Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:28:56 wiskbroom (at) hotmail.com wrote:
>>> All;
>>>
>>> I would like to modify ping to every 30 seconds over the next two weeks,
>>
>> Set the interval of the bbnet task in hobbitlaunch.cfg on your servers running
>> this task. However, you may want to verify the trends on the graphs on the
>> bbtest pages for these hosts first, to verify whether you have in the past been
>> able to complete all network testing in that time reliably.
>
> Thanks as always Buchan.  Sine my server I am using is fairly new, the
> load and times to complete testing ar e all fine at the moment, so I've
> gone ahead and modified bbnet in hobbitlaunch.cfg to a 1 min.
> interval.
>
>>> I
>>> believe it is every 5 minutes as that is the frequency shown on my "conn"
>>> RRD graphs.
>>
>> No, network testing intervals are not necessarily aligned to the RRD graph
>> resolution.
>
> How, and where can I make sure that rrd graphs are
> regenerating at the same interval, or at least every 2 minutes?

You can use rrdtool to dump out the contents of the rrd.

cd /var/lib/xymon/rrd/<host>
# rrdtool dump <check>.rrd | less


>
>>> Is this possible? Is it possible to change the frequency for just one host
>>> and not all of my hosts?
>>
>> No, only for the task. However, you can run multiple bbnet tasks, and have
>> them test different devices ...
>
> Regards,
>
> .vadim
>
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