[hobbit] purple recovery

[Sue Bauer-Lee]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:58:23PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote:
> > 
> > I setup Hobbit Monitor only to find out that Hobbit coulnd't get a 
> > netowrk response from a couple of systems. The networking issues have been
> > resolved in that the server itself can get a ping/fping connectivity response
> > from an interface that it's monitoring but Hobbit still reports that the 
> > interface is unreachable and thus remains purple. 
> > 
> > 	System unreachable for 553 poll periods (173239 seconds)
> > 			
> > 		yet
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/fping 192.168.200.145
> > 192.168.200.145 is alive
> 
> If it's purple, that means the status has not been updated for more than
> 30 minutes - so the ping-test is not being run for this host. Have you
> changed the configuration to include a "noconn" for this host ?

Oops - yep. Probably sis that so it would stop paging until connectivity was 
restored. 

> 
> > Speaking of connectivity, have I misunderstood the difference between
> > "noping" and "noconn"? It seems that if I set "noconn", I still get pages yet
> > "noping" produces the empty white circles and no more alerts. 
> 
> "noconn" completely stops reporting any status for the "conn" column.
> So if you have this present from the beginning when a host is added to
> the bb-hosts file, you will not have a "conn" column for this host.
> However, if you start out with either a normal ping test or "noping"
> (which just sends a "this test is disabled" status), then you have a
> "conn" status column for this host - and then you must explicitly remove
> that column if you add a "noconn" tag later on. If you don't remove it,
> then it will go purple (because it is not being updated any more), and
> purple statuses can result in alerts going out.
> 
> To remove the status column, run
> 
>     ~hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME conn"

Ok. all have been cleared and column has been removed. Essentially, once
the service has been established, it must be manually removed/cleared in 
order to change functionality. 

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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Sue Bauer-Lee        |    KE4HNN, SSCP
Carrollton, GA 30112 |    Email: sblee at tazmania.org
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