On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:01:53PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:
So I migrated one of our BB installations officially over to Hobbit
today. Woohoo. So now the questions and comments from the other
sysadmins start to come in.
Oh my god ... they're actually *using* the darn thing :-)
Bigbrother apparently has a paging setting where if all the hosts
for a check fail, it will only page you on one of the checks. ie, a
host's nic fails, so ping, http checks, snmp checks fail, but
bigbrother would only page you about the ping check failing and
preventing a deluge to your pager.
Does hobbit have a way to do this?
It should do that "out of the box". Hobbit's network tester mimics the
way BB does network tests, so if the ping-test fails the "conn" column
will be red, but the other network tests for that host will go
"clear". And the "clear" color normally does not trigger a page.
The "depends" setting mentioned here is for dependencies between
hosts, e.g. if your webserver needs an application server to be up
before it can send a response.
Regards,
Henrik