[hobbit] client side test frequency tuning

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Marganne, Etienne wrote:
> 
> The CPU, disks, procs kind of tests are held on the client side right? 

No. That's Big Brother thinking, and you're running Hobbit.

There is no one-to-one correspondance between the client-side script and 
the cpu/disk/memory etc. tests that shows up on the Hobbit display, since 
the latter is generated on the Hobbit server from several of the data items 
that the client-side script collects.

> What I want to do is to change the frequency of the CPU survey without 
> changing anything for the other tests.

You can modify the clientlaunch.cfg to run the full Hobbit client script
every minute, but that would probably break your log-monitoring (log
events would expire in 6 minutes instead of 30), and the vmstat data
would probably be affected as well.


Besides which, it doesn't really make much sense. The CPU load reported
is the 5-minute average from your OS anyway. And do you really want a
sudden spike to trigger full alerts? Just because someone happened to
run "find" in the wrong directory?


Regards,
Henrik