Excelent, thanks. This also explains why the test was purple for an hour,
green for an hour when the test was set for exery hour.
On Friday 24 October 2008 03:47:51 Samuel Cai wrote:
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From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Tricky bug in Purple status determination
When a report comes in to Hobbit, the default "time to live" for the
report is 30 mins. As long as another report comes in within that time,
the timer is reset. If there's no report, that column goes purple.
If your test is reporting every 30 mins, there's a good chance it'll
exhibit the behaviour you describe.
What you should do is alter the test script to use the "status+LIFETIME"
format, where LIFETIME is the life span of the report, as described in
the bb man page, and make the lifetime a bit longer than the the test
interval.
Ralph Mitchell
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Regards
Wayne