[hobbit] HTTP Test Timeout & Delays

[Richard Leyton]

Morning all,

One request on this matter that I'd like to suggest (perhaps in a  
future release) is individual HTTP test timeout settings. My customer  
needs to monitor a few external URL's that we rely on for various  
things. One in particular has frequent problems.

So we upped the default timeout on bbtest-net to 20s, which helped  
but it's still not really enough, and I'm reluctant to increase it  
further the board for just one bad egg. If there's a workaround to  
this particular problem, I'd be happy to hear suggestions.

Thanks and Regards,

Richard.

On 17 Nov 2006, at 08:14, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:31:53AM -0600, James Wade wrote:
>
>> After adding the additional URL's, I started getting Timeouts
>> across the board. If I look at the graph for old URL's, it
>> shows the graph increasing at the same time I implemented
>> all the new URL's yesterday.
>> ie. I went from about 30 to 60 URL's.
>
> By default, Hobbit runs lots of network tests in parallel. It has been
> seen that this can overwhelm either a server or some of your network
> infrastructure; or just generate enough traffic that packets are  
> dropped
> on their way to the Hobbit server.
>
> 60 URL's aren't a whole lot, though.
>
> Still, you can try lowering the number of concurrent tests that Hobbit
> performs. The "--concurrency=N" option for bbtest-net does that  
> (goes in
> hobbitlaunch.cfg). See the bbtest-net(1) man-page.
>
>
> Henrik
>
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