[hobbit] hobbitd warning: Cookie xxxxxx not found, dropping ack

[Dominique Frise]

John Glowacki wrote:
> Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
>> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 07:42:32AM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
>>>
>>>> Passed a certain time, alerts cannot be acked.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> They can, but you'll need a new cookie.
>>>
>>>
>>>> What is the value for this period and is it configurable?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 24 hours, not configurable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Henrik
>>>
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>> Thanks.
>> Then there may be a problem.
>>
>> We got a red alert for sslcert checking at 03:02 AM (CEST) this morning.
>>
>> -------notifications.log-------
>> Mon Jun 12 03:02:41 2006 iris.sslcert (130.223.27.23) 
>> xy at example.com[256] 1150074161 0
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> -----alert e-mail-----------
>> ...
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:02:41 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: bb at iris.unil.ch
>> Message-Id: <200606120102.k5C12fa5006413 at toto.example.com>
>> To: xy at example.com
>> Subject: Hobbit [868419] iris:sslcert CRITICAL (RED)
>> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com rr=1842614
>> Content-Length: 412
>> Status: RO
>> X-Status: DA
>> X-Keywords:
>> X-UID: 92708
>>
>> red Mon Jun 12 03:02:25 2006
>>
>> &red SSL certificate for https://wwwexp/ expires in 9 days
>>
>> ...
>> -------------------
>>
>>
>> We tried then to acknowledge it -reply- at 07:38 AM and get a warning 
>> from hobbitd"
>>
>> ----hobbitd.log----
>> 2006-06-12 07:26:25 Cookie 868419 not found, dropping ack
>> -------------------
>>
>> Dominique
>> UNIL - University of Lausanne
> 
> 
> 
> You can run hobbitboard to see what is says now.
> ./bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard fields=hostname,color,cookie"
> 
Thanks John for this info.
The cookie had changed (now 265629) and I could acknowledge it.
Still does not know why it changed before the 24 hours period ;-)

./bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard color=red test=sslcert 
fields=hostname,color,cookie,lastchange"
iris|red|265629|1150074161

Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne