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.
This wouldn't be quite so troublesome if it didn't page
us once for every red conn message :)
This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1, and all of our hosts are using
the badconn:1:1:2 flag.
Regards.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:35 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] fping tuning
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Mangeant wrote:
many thanks for writing hobbitping ! It works fine on my test system > (Gentoo Linux x86, glibc 2.3.6, GCC 3.4.6).
Is it / will it be possible to run it on top of a 4.1.2p1 installation ?
Shouldn't be a problem, since it's a very simple stand-alone tool.
Just build it - you've already done that - and copy over the hobbitping
binary to your 4.1.2 installation. Then change the FPING setting in
hobbitserver.cfg to run hobbitping instead of fping.
Make sure you have hobbitping installed suid-root.
Regards,
Henrik