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Client interval question

list Scott Walters
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:23:40 -0500
Message-Id: <user-4257cb743ca6@xymon.invalid>

Sure, but we'd see up to 13 hours between dns 'red', when BB would
get several in that period.

I haven't changed hobbit yet to 1 minute checks.  I've even made
an explicit explanation that I wasn't planning to shorten it to
1 minute checks when we officially switched over, and that was
agreed to.  However, with the fact that the 1 minute checks did
actually make a difference in tracking down and solving the problem
with DNS, I may yet have to work on that change.
It sounds like your shop is so tidy that you would have found it and  
fixed it anyway.  It was just a little brighter with the shorter  
interval.
We'll see what
kind of feedback I get after today.  Even then, the only thing I'd
really be willing to shorten to that frequency of checks are the
remote checks, over the network.
I believe hobbit has great 're-test' logic.  So if it is down, it  
will test more frequently . . . .
I thought it was unnecessary when I originally brought BB into
production years ago, but it was one of the requirements I ended
up with to sell switching to BB.  Some things can't be checked
every minute, I have raid checks that can take more than a
minute to run.
On the client, 1m samples are opening Pandora's Box . . . .

scott