[hobbit] Default Value for Duration

Asif Iqbal iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net
Wed Feb 16 15:30:23 CET 2005


On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:06:36AM, Charles Jones wrote:
> Asif Iqbal wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:37:18PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:57:36AM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>I have a stupid question. What is the default value for DURATION? In
> >>>bigbrother it pagedelay default was 5 mins.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>The default is 0 - i.e. alerts go out as soon as a status goes
> >>critical. This is the same as BB's default. 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Hmm, how often Hobbit checks for the host.conn? I have a system that
> >rebooted and came back up in 3 mins and Hobbit never noticed it.
> > 
> >
> 
> From the "Tips and Tricks" section of the hobbit help:
> 
> 
>      I need the web-pages to update more frequently
> 
> The ~/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg defines the update interval for all of 
> the Hobbit programs. The default is for network tests to run every 5 

Excellent.

> minutes, and webpage updates to happen once a minute.
> 
> Note that if you run the /bbretest-net.sh/ tool on your network test 
> server (this is the default for a new Hobbit server), then network tests 
> that fail will run every minute for up to 30 minutes after the initial 
> failure, so usually there is little need to change the update interval 
> for your network tests.
> 
> 

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