[hobbit] Re: Setting up second network tester

s_aiello at comcast.net s_aiello at comcast.net
Fri Feb 1 13:39:15 CET 2008


On Thursday 31 January 2008, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> >
> > This runs two sets of network tests - one with 5 minute intervals,
> > the other with 1 minute intervals. Then in bb-hosts, flag each host with
> > "NET:standard" or "NET:frequent".
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> >
>
> Thanks -
>
> Looks like an excellent solution for now. But I would still like to learn
> how to set up a second network tester. Due to recent merger and other
> situations, it looks like we will be adding a large number of machines to
> be monitored and I worry about capacity
>
> eric
>

This reminded me of something. When setting up the ENV var BBLOCATION, that 
seems to really annoy bbhostgrep. If I have any ext script that makes use of 
bbhostgrep, I had to unset that variable for things to work right. Not sure 
if this is a bug, I haven't seen anyone else encouter this.

 ~Steve



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