Please help me understand this

[James B Horwath]

I want to make sure I understand  how the badTEST directive in the bb-host 
file works.

If I have something like this:

10.10.10.10   foobar         # !telnet ssh noconn badssh:1:1:2

I read the documentation to work like this:

Interval 1--------------Interval 2 -------------Interval 3
00:00                          00:05                          00:10
0 minutes                  5 minutes                 5 minutes
Success                    Failure                      Failure
Green                         Yellow                      Red


At 00:00 an ssh test is done and is successful.  The next polling interval 
is at 00:05 and the 10 second time-out is hit and the ssh test fails.  Due 
to the badssh directive the test will turn yellow in Hobbit.  The next 
polling cycle is at 00:10 and the 10 second time-out is reached for the 
ssh test and this time a RED alert is generated because it is the second 
failure (referred to as the z variable in the documentation).

Is this understanding correct?   Are network tests only done once?

Thanks in advance,
Jim







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