[hobbit] hobbitping oddities

Schwimmer, Eric E *HS EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Tue May 23 15:03:34 CEST 2006


We did indeed lower the test interval to 1 minute.  I'll try disabling
the bbretest stanza and let you know how that goes.

-Eric Schwimmer
Network Engineer
UVA HSCS Network Engineering  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:11 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbitping oddities
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:57:04PM -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
> > 
> > More info: this doesn't look like its exclusive to hobbitping.
> > I swapped hobbitping out for fping, and I'm still getting a lot of 
> > the red->green->red flapping when a host is unreachable.
> 
> Which could point again at a problem with the re-tests.
> 
> What interval do you use for the normal tests (i.e. the interval you
> run the [bbnet] task?) Is it the default 5 minutes, or have 
> you lowered
> it ? 
> 
> I'd be interested to know if disabling the [bbretest] task makes this 
> flapping go away.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> > 
> > -Eric Schwimmer
> > Network Engineer
> > UVA HSCS Network Engineering  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS 
> [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] 
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:36 AM
> > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > > Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbitping oddities
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Sounds like it is the re-test thing that is broken. Do 
> you have the
> > > > [bbretest] section enabled in hobbitlaunch.cfg ?
> > > 
> > > Yep:
> > > [bbretest]
> > >         ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> > >         NEEDS hobbitd
> > >         CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh
> > >         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log
> > >         INTERVAL 1m
> > >  
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