[hobbit] hobbitping oddities
Henrik Stoerner
henrik at hswn.dk
Thu May 18 17:06:33 CEST 2006
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:58:47AM -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
>
> Had a some unexpected behaviour from hobbitping that I thought
> I'd let you know about. When a host goes down, hobbitping
> will report it red, but the next poll cycle, it will report
> green again. The next poll cycle it will go red once more
> (this time with a message in the conn page that the host
> has been down for 3 consecutive polling cyclings), then it
> goes green again, etc etc.
Sounds like it is the re-test thing that is broken. Do you have the
[bbretest] section enabled in hobbitlaunch.cfg ?
> This wouldn't be quite so troublesome if it didn't page
> us once for every red conn message :)
Ouch.
Regards,
Henrik
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