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bug report? bb-network tests do not run if bb-hosts' apache tag has a typo

list Tom Georgoulias
Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:40:40 -0400
Message-Id: <user-d8d5761e8957@xymon.invalid>

Last night I made a typo in the apache performance test tag, forgetting to add '//' after 'http:'.  This little typo prevented hobbit from running any of the network based tests, and the tests remained purple until I corrected the error.  My log/bb-network.log file was full of lines like this:

2006-07-11 16:25:54 Malformed URL missing '//' in 'http:webserver:80/server-status?auto'

Is that expected behavior for this kind of user error?  It would be cool if Hobbit were able to handle that kind of oversight better, and simply drop that typo-ridden test or even all the network tests for that host, but still run everything else.  Just wanted to pass this thought along.   (BTW, this was on 4.1.2p1)

Tom