Network test time-outs

You can increase the timeout value on the bbnet-test program by adding a
-timeout=N to its invocation line in hobbitalerts.cfg. I've found just
increasing it to 15 seconds (from the default 10) makes a huge difference in
the number of timeouts I get.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 1/25/06, James B Horwath <user-9b4f5b722116@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I am having an issue with Hobbit network tests.  There are times when
network or (client) system congestion causes a network test such as SSH to
fail.  The service is not down just slow, I receive a clear almost
immediately after I receive the down.  To keep my sanity I need the network
value upped.  In BB I was able to correct this by setting the variables
BBNETTIMER[1-3] to higher values.  I wasn't able to find such a beast in
Hobbit.  I opened the file bbtest-net.c and found the
int             timeout=10;                     /* The timeout (seconds)
for all TCP-tests */
and
int             extcmdtimeout = 30;

I do not use ICMP as a connectivity test, I use ssh for up/down, to me
that is more realistic.   I searched the mail archives and didn't find
anything. Can I up the values on the time-out to make the test not fail so
quickly?  Or anybody else have any suggestions on how to work around the
issue.

Please advise,
Jim


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